Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supply bottlenecks, slower product deliveries and higher freight and labour costs risk shifting the fast fashion industry into the slow lane, as shown this week by British online fashion retailer Asos. Cheap supplies from Asia have been central to many fast fashion business models.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The business partners, who started as college friends, have weathered challenges including the rise of fast fashion, the advent of online consignment resale and major economic downturns, but now they’re enjoying the resurgence in love for preowned goods as the resale category grows. The ceiling hadn’t been revealed in 80 years.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

per cent increase in clothing, footwear and personal accessories. We predict retailers in the fast-fashion apparel and footwear sectors within consumer discretionary goods could face significant headwinds over the next few months. Retail sales increased by 1.3 per cent month on month in July and are 16.5 per cent through June.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2022

China is Fast Retailing’s biggest foreign market, with 863 stores on the mainland and almost 90 outlets in Shanghai, where stringent lockdown measures, introduced in late March, remain in place to contain the country’s worst outbreak of the pandemic. Fast Retailing has more Uniqlo stores in China than in its home market of Japan.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a world where fast fashion often takes the spotlight, Marie France Van Damme stands as a beacon of slow, deliberate artistry. Recently worn by none other than Beyoncé for her iconic Renaissance World Tour, the Hong Kong-based designer fashion brand is entering a new phase of growth. Paris is the fashion capital.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The retailer was founded in 1986 by Raúl Méndez on Spain’s Gran Canary Island, and now has 145 points of sale throughout Spain, including 125 stores, and operates under the women’s fast-fashion brands Encuentro Moda and Öbu. Source Tagging Provides Basis for Inventory Tracking.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

Spanish fast fashion giant Zara made headlines for all the wrong reasons last month when Mexico’s Ministry of Culture accused it of using embroidery patterns distinctive to the Mixteca community of Oaxaca in its garments without credit or benefit to the Indigneous community.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 21, 2023

The impressive 60-something-piece range spans across all of the retailer’s departments from clothing and accessories to homewares and stationery. Selfridges x Barbie Barbie fever has officially hit Selfridges, with several activations live around its Oxford Street store and a pop-up at its Manchester location.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

The next retailer that looks to be in trouble is fast-fashion titan H&M. As a result, H&M shuttered more than 20 physical locations last year. The brand reported 56 per cent growth in sales across all segments – apparel, footwear, and equipment/accessories – and reached annual revenue of RMB22.6 billion ($US4.7

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

You might not get the glam of a trendy big-city mall; there are no fast fashion retailers here, no H&M, no Zara. In fact, there are hardly any fashion stores at all, and that’s partly the point. In addition to the inline stores, the place is brimming with kiosks selling all kinds of personal accessories.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Co-founder and co-CEO Kirsten Kore says the business is in the “right place at the right time” to capitalise on consumers’ growing interest in sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, such as rental. According to FMI, global online clothing rental sales are expected to grow 11 per cent CAGR between 2021 and 2031.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Everyone is now realising there are alternatives to fast fashion and through brands like InStitchu you can purchase tailored clothing for the same price as off-the-rack mass-produced garments – less clutter for the customer, less waste for brands, and less impact on the environment,” Wakefield said.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2022

Unspun currently has stores in San Francisco and Hong Kong, but since the buying experience can be accessible to anyone who has an iPhone X and beyond, their growth is not technically limited by its bricks-and-mortar locations.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

The huge impetus to open our first overseas Tanaka outlet in Singapore this year was encouraged by several factors – the quality understanding of the local market, the right location, the demand for a good Japanese eyewear in that vicinity as well as the reasonable rental we were able to negotiate.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’d advertised the date in a physical location so we kept that date and launched a platform, we photographed 5000 items, and we re-marketed to go online within 10 days. First and foremost, we’re not a fast-fashion brand. We’re going to keep that now, so it’s a much better process.

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Independent Retailer

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Tango , a leader in store lifecycle management (SLM) and integrated workplace management system (IWMS) software, shared top level insights from leading brands and industry experts on the current state of the retail industry during its recent Location is Everything Summit. Balancing Friction in the Brick and Mortar Retail Experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2022

Everything’s made-to-order, so there are some major benefits, like it’s anti-fast fashion. It allows us to look for locations that probably weren’t [originally] appropriate for us from a retail point of view. Plus you don’t have to invest in stock. People spend a bit more on the product and keep it for longer.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

Trained as a milliner, she opened her first boutique in 1972 and through determination and grit, she has grown it into Feathers, a national women’s fashion brand that is sold through a handful of standalone bricks-and-mortar locations and in Myer. More than anything, fast fashion has knocked a lot of the middle market [out].

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. So I’m gonna guess you’re not a fan of fast fashion. An end table, a coffee table, a rug, a lamp, you know, decorative accessories, get into the bedroom, who knows, right? Scot: [26:58] Yeah.

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