Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

RESPONSIBLE, the global reCommerce circularity platform, has selected Delivery Experience Platform Sorted to revolutionise its flexible overseas returns, solving new challenges brought on by Brexit and rising customer expectations. RESPONSIBLE […]

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2023

A few of them are attending Seoul Fashion Week inside the plaza but many are just everyday people looking for an opportunity to show off their personal style. Just like New York or Copenhagen, Seoul is a metropolitan hailed for its distinctive fashion. Despite the hiatus, Koreans’ hunger for fashion remains stronger than ever.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

As bricks and mortar retailing returns to pre-pandemic rates, business owners are left to question whether the traditional in-store experience suffices in this new, convenience-driven consumer world. While reducing both the economic and environmental cost of returns. The leading reason for return being wrong sizing.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

As bricks and mortar retailing returns to pre-pandemic rates, business owners are left to question whether the traditional in-store experience suffices in this new, convenience-driven consumer world. While reducing both the economic and environmental cost of returns. The leading reason for return being wrong sizing.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

British music store HMV will on Black Friday return to its former flagship store on London’s Oxford Street after a four-year absence, offering vinyl, clothing and merchandise in a vote of confidence for physical stores in an increasingly online age. Its resurgence has mirrored that of the vinyl market.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fresh off its biggest capital raise to date, peer-to-peer fashion rental platform Designerex is gearing up for a period of rapid growth that will see it launch one-hour delivery in Australia, enter the UK and Europe and start working more closely with brands to reach new customers. Someone is making two grand from a $400 dress,” Kore said.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 27, 2022

For Leukbook, a new online fashion marketplace founded by Katrina Van De Ven and Catherine Olivier, it’s all about fit. Launching in Australia next month, the one-stop shop for plus-size fashion plans to offer personalised sizing recommendations and a fit guarantee to differentiate itself in the notoriously underserved market. “It

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

French fashion designer, Manfred Thierry Mugler, who was behind designs worn by Beyonce and Lady Gaga, has passed away, aged 73. . “We May his soul Rest In Peace,” said a statement on Mugler’s official social media accounts. . The designer retired from the brand in 2002 before returning in 2013 as the creative adviser.

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Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2021

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s no question the global crisis has disrupted just about everything in the fashion world, from how we dress, to how we shop, to how the industry itself operates. Luxury fashion it-girls dress up for Prada’s ready-to-wear debut. If you’re ready for re-openings, so is Prada.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In direct opposition to the more singular body shape represented in most advertising, fashion app Mys Tyler connects users with models and influencers of similar body sizes, allowing them to find styles and clothing that will complement their body shape. 81 per cent of women don’t feel represented by fashion advertising.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2022

After a few pandemic-stricken seasons, most designers returned in full force to the physical fashion week calendar. Celebrities from all over the world descended on the fashion capital, where micro skirts, boxing tape, and body armour emerged as key trends on the runway. ’90s angst. The humble tank top. On the defence.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Taking unique preferences into account enables businesses to build a better relationship with their customers, encouraging a longer commitment and lessening churn. For example, consumers plan to increase subscriptions in the future within food and beverage (47%), fashion (41%) and pharma (48%).

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to research undertaken by the International Association of Department Stores and multinational business and creative intelligence consultancy NellyRodi, the Covid-19 pandemic and its gradual disappearance have translated into “a V-shaped trajectory” for the men’s fashion category in department stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

So after months of people dying for a return to some normality (mostly in the form of freshly poured beer), queues started forming as early as 7am on Monday 12 th April as non-essential shops, hairdressers and pubs in the UK finally reopened their doors. The post Analysis: Has Brexit helped the UK return to recovery?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

I had also recently returned from many years working in the UK at luxury houses such as Armani and Prada. I understood what luxury retail fashion should look like and I was determined to ensure that Parlour X would help elevate Sydney onto a global stage. Most importantly, a great buyer must have a keen eye and acute sense for fashion.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

Anrealage, a Japanese fashion brand, gained attention at Paris Fashion Week after displaying a colour-changing collection of apparel that was activated by suspended moving UV lights. The Anrealage Fall Winter 2023 collection is influenced by old 1950s fashion, with a concentration on long designs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2024

For brands, Amazon offers a Fit Insights Tool based on LLMs that contextualizes returns and size chart analyses with customer reviews and uses machine learning to identify defects in size charts. It also takes into account sizes bought — and kept — by similar customers for the same product or similarly fitting products.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

This month, Square is launching a special promotion for Australian retailers, offering 20 per cent off selected hardware – exclusively for companies with an Australian Square account. Square’s system also allows retailers to accept returns at any location and seamlessly process exchanges. Offer not valid with guest checkout.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The rapid rise of fast-fashion e-commerce retailers such as Shein and Temu is upending the global air cargo industry, as they increasingly vie for limited air-cargo space to woo consumers with rapid transit times, more than ten industry sources said. TikTok Shop did not return messages seeking comment. Apple declined to comment.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2023

With global plus-size fashion retailer City Chic’s sales impacted by reduced promotional activities, a strategic review has been launched to find ways to improve performance. According to a trading update based on unaudited accounts for the 45 weeks to May 14, group sales fell 15.2 per cent to $262.2 per cent to $122.1 million. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Digital accounted for 44% of net sales in Q4 2020, and the retailer also highlighted the fact that 25% of its digital sales were fulfilled from its brick-and-mortar stores via curbside pickup and same-day delivery. “The Additionally, the cost controls we committed to in February were key in helping us weather the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. The sourcing of raw materials, factory working conditions and the environmental impact of goods distribution matters — and it appears business leaders in fashion and retail are taking note. A Starting Point. Greater demand forecasting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2023

This places sneakers ahead of high-end fashion clothing (69% riskier than average), making these two categories the only ones with an above-average riskiness score (when compared to electronics, jewelry and watches, cosmetics, low- to mid-range fashion, home and other ecommerce goods).

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2023

With that taken into account, comparable store sales rose by 9.6 The business realised that achieving a return to the pre-Covid era trading and profitability “required taking a leap forward rather than taking a step back”. This $33 million turnaround is not simply a result of customers returning to in-store shopping post the pandemic.”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Amid the rise of fast fashion and social media platforms accelerating consumptive behaviour, it appears that many Australians aren’t wearing or re-wearing the clothes they purchase. This was highlighted by the Fashion Resale Report from online retailer Reluv and Monash University. Consumer behaviours will also inevitably change.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2023

British luxury fashion group Burberry has reported US$3.72 Global spending by Chinese customers accounted for 30 per cent of the business revenue. The southern Asia Pacific region saw sales rise more than 35 per cent with a strong fourth quarter performance that increased more than 50 per cent, boosted by returning Chinese tourists.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

So far this year, department store sales have accounted for less than 1% of retail sales, according to estimates from Customer Growth Partners. David Malka, Chief Sales Officer of logistics company goTRG , said that the format also could help the ecommerce behemoth mitigate one of the largest downsides of selling digitally — higher returns.

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Retail Insider

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Fuelling Innovation in Fashion Roundtable. Fashion businesses are successfully adapting their models in myriad ways as Covid-19 has accelerated the industry’s key underlying trends including the increased embrace of digital channels, the rise of sustainability, and a greater focus on the supply chain.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Items include consumer returns and cosmetically imperfect footwear that cannot be sold as new but have been cleaned as needed. New Balance is just the latest fashion brand to hop onto the resale trend. Coach has done something similar with the launch of Coachtopia, its circular fashion initiative, last year.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

Global plus-size fashion retailer City Chic is gearing up for a loss in its December half earnings as “volatile” demand has led to poor sales. In a trading update based on unaudited accounts for the period to January 1, the business recorded a sales decline of 8 per cent to $168.6 Online sales fell 21 per cent.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

Trans-Tasman apparel retailer Mosaic Brands is set to open 130 new stores as customers return to in-store shopping. According to unaudited accounts for the half year to January 1, sales grew 23 per cent driven by strong trading momentum and a higher average transaction value.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

alone, secondhand apparel accounted for $43 billion in sales in 2023, and it’s expected to reach $73 billion by 2028. And a bill in France that would impose levies on fast fashion companies and restrict their advertising opportunities is making its way through that country’s parliament. In the U.S.

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365 Retail

MARCH 17, 2023

Consumers say retailers shouldn’t ban serial returners from shopping with them, suggesting that those who return the most are often the most valuable, highest spending customers to the retailer, according to new research from the Retail Technology Show , taking place on 26 & 27 April 2023 at London’s Olympia.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 4, 2021

InPost, an out-of-home and eCommerce delivery company, has announced a new partnership with sustainable fashion trailblazer, Yellow Octopus Group , which aims to offer consumers a more convenient and greener way of donating and recycling clothes. With the added bonus of a money off voucher in return, it’s a win-win for consumers”.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 3, 2021

Informa Markets Fashion , host to premier fashion trade events, including MAGIC , COTERIE , PROJECT , and SOURCING at MAGIC , announced the debut of a new, twice-annual women’s and children’s East Coast market event, MAGIC New York. fashion capital.

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