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Asos ties exec pay to new environmental goals

Inside Retail

Online fashion retailer Asos set out plans to cut its environmental impact and improve worker rights on Thursday, tying its success in cutting waste and carbon levels to future management pay.

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Analysis: Why does Shein continue to escape scrutiny?

Inside Retail

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries. Inclusive fashion.

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Shein hires ex-PLT buying director as first ever chief product officer

Retail Gazette

In her new role, she will also help the Chinese-based fashion giant, which employs 40 people in its London office, grow a Manchester-based team of around 15 staff by the start of next year. Dunne’s appointment comes as Shein’s UK business made a pre-tax profit of £12.2m

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Short-Form Video and UGC are Reshaping the Realm of Influencer Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

TikTok and Instagram are volume platforms, they’re like the fast fashion of social media,” Dulay explained. Influencer marketing isn’t what it was in 2013 or 2014, where you gave someone a product and they sold it for you,” Dulay said. But don’t count YouTube out. Know what your goal is.

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Spring Fair looks ahead to 2025 following a buzzing show

A1 Retail

Nick Reed, Founder of Neem London shared his story about the creation of his modern menswear brand, “Neem was created as an ‘antiseptic’ for fast fashion; to produce men’s clothing that has been made with care, a result of a transparent supply chain, with the safe guarding of our environment as the focus.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

I think Shein is actually taking share from the fast fashion. And I think the ones that are getting hurt are the non-fast fashion, the slow, the glacierly slow fashion. They’re actually riding it themselves.

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Analysis: Esprit, the forgotten brand that lost its identity

Inside Retail

However, the birth of fast fashion and the rise of the millennials soon pushed Esprit out of the game – and the Hang Seng Index – in 2013, sparking a continuing downward spiral for the years to come.