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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.

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How social commerce platform Smthgood is reinventing eco-fashion in Asia

Inside Retail

The intersection of technology and sustainability is redefining the fashion landscape in Asia, and one of the leaders of this movement is Smthgood, a marketplace with a mission. Smthgood is a social commerce platform that combines user-generated lookbooks with a fashion marketplace that is focused on conscious fashion brands.

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What fashion can learn from runways at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Inside Retail

This year’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) was a 15-day-long parade of emerging and established Australian designers spanning over 100 unique events. Premium runways were staged inside Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building against the backdrop of the news that Victoria is Australia’s fashion manufacturing capital.

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Pricing and consumer perception: Why fast-fashion brands launch premium ranges

Inside Retail

The value of luxury and premium fashion goods is often in their design, storytelling and product quality. But recently, fast-fashion brands including Zara, H&M, Mango, Urban Outfitters and Topshop have been testing limited-run premium collections in addition to their regular and frequent product drops.

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Australian fashion brands seek supply-chain sovereignty

Inside Retail

This is just part of the conversation happening with fashion brands and retailers across the country as pressures mount to gain control over notoriously complex supply chains and work towards circular, sustainable business practices. per cent of fashion shoppers look for Australian made. Earlier this year, R.M.

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The fastest fashion: Why Incu has launched two-hour delivery with Uber

Inside Retail

The fashion industry has long found itself in a race to be the fastest. The latest brand to capitalise on this trend is luxury fashion house Incu, which, in a partnership with Uber Direct, can now deliver its products to customers in under two hours. But for customers that have been in Incu stores, it’s missing a few things.

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How the Fashion Industry Can Pave the Way for a Sustainable Future

Retail TouchPoints

For decades, there have been continued debates surrounding sustainability and the fashion industry’s position in implementing and maintaining a sustainable value chain, where renewable resources from the environment can be continually used and human rights are protected. An Eco-Conscious Journey. Shifting Attitudes Across the Industry.

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