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Navigating the Tariff Era: A Strategic Roadmap for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. The Scars of the 2018-2019 U.S.-China In 2018, more than one-third of apparel imports flowing into the U.S.

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The Knockoff Conundrum: Faux Fashion or Legal Faux Pas?

Retail TouchPoints

Knockoffs have stormed the fashion scene, causing a stir across social media and online marketplaces like an uninvited guest at a high-society gala. These sneaky style chameleons give you the luxury look without the luxury price tag, sparking endless debates on whether they’re fashion-forward genius or outright fraud.

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Why Oroton is bringing AR mirrors to Australian fashion

Inside Retail

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall. We want to grow, learn, and evolve alongside our customers’ shopping behaviours.”

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Here’s why discount luxury business Azura Fashion Group is going circular

Inside Retail

Australian fashion tech business Azura Fashion Group is banking on the booming circular economy for growth. Azura Fashion Group was born out of the uproar caused by Burberry’s revelation in 2018 that it had destroyed millions of dollars worth of excess stock, rather than sell it at a discounted price, to protect its brand image.

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Ultra-fast fashion is undermining efforts to make the industry more sustainable

Inside Retail

Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. Now, just when the fashion industry should be waking up and breaking free of this vicious cycle, it’s heading in the opposite direction. We’re on a downward spiral, from fast fashion to ultra-fast fashion. billion in 2018.

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Failed promises: The PE firms behind the downfall of Mosaic and SurfStitch

Inside Retail

The most high-profile of these failures is Mosaic Brands, the company behind long-running fashion chains, including Noni B, Millers, Rivers and Katies, which collapsed at the end of last year and is now in liquidation. By July 2018, Alceon’s retail investments were generating about $1.5 million in June 2019.

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How the Olympics are fuelling the big business of fake fashion

Inside Retail

Fake fashion is big business. billion) in lost sales on average each year between 2018 and 2021, according to the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The company has said it works closely with authorities and customs officials to enforce its intellectual property rights and to defend consumers from counterfeiters.

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