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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

Target [also] continued to trade well across its apparel range, but with more challenging results in toys and home, highlighting the opportunity for the division to leverage the strengths of Kmart.” He added that 75 per cent of Target’s range – across apparel, soft home and toy products – will be unique to the brand.

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Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opens pop-up on Savile Row

Retail Focus

Moving out of London in search of other opportunities, Steyn noticed a gap in the market for a truly bespoke hat making process, and subsequently began making hats in his garage in 2019. What’s more, his clothing line is crafted using either 100% renewable energy, sustainably sourced cloth or dead stock.

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

A few years ago, it seemed like every new brand making noise in the market was adopting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! Everyone should do this.’

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How Haus of Dizzy uses bold and bright jewellery to advocate and inspire

Inside Retail

I began taking all my old clothes to the Bondi markets to sell them and save up enough to start my own business. A few months later, I bought jewellery-making tools and materials – beading jewels and started selling my creations alongside her clothes at the markets. We believe in supporting local!

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From Kampot to Myer: the journey of Cambodian fashion label Dorsu

Inside Retail

To a slow fashion apparel brand in rural Cambodia, Australia’s sophisticated fashion capital of Melbourne seems a world away – and not just geographically. Yet Dorsu, which positions itself as an ethical and sustainable clothing maker, has overcome geographic and socioeconomic barriers to establish itself in the Australian market.

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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

We talked to four retailers about Omicron: Maxine Windram, director of specialty apparel store Brava Lingerie; Brittany Garbutt, owner and director of popular restaurant chain Pretzel Australia; Natasha Dwyer, founder of children’s clothing store Arthur Ave; and Avi Efrat, owner of Fantastic Framing. It goes on and on.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

While cotton could indeed be sourced elsewhere, the US had several distinct market advantages. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market. Thus preventing the US from ever again recapturing such outsized share of the global cotton market.