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ThredUP Continues Anti-Fast Fashion Offensive with V-Day Campaign, adds Francesca’s to Resale Roster

Retail TouchPoints

ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Nava Rose models one of her styles for the Dump Fast Fashion shop on ThredUP. “I Together with ThredUP, I’m committed to ghosting fast fashion.

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Game on: How H&M is bringing fast fashion to the metaverse

Inside Retail

Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. It’s the latest apparel company to set up a virtual environment on the platform where players can style their avatar and run or scoot around Loooptopia districts collecting tokens. .

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How Shein is winning the fast-fashion war by putting consumers in charge

Inside Retail

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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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July. Almost half the clothes donated to Moda Re are shipped for resale in African countries including Cameroon, Ghana, and Senegal. Moda Re says the clothes it exports can be reused.

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How Shein and Temu are driving up the cost of air freight

Inside Retail

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. That equates to around 108 Boeing 777 freighters a day, the consultancy said.

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The Global Reach and Sustainable Impact of Green RFID Technology

Retail TouchPoints

Especially in this era of fast fashion, most retail products are produced overseas and shipped thousands of miles to their destination. The airplanes, ships and trucks used to transport these materials consume significant amounts of fossil fuels, which are tremendously bad for the environment.

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Shein Adds Third-Party Marketplace in U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

thanks to on-trend discount offerings enabled by its real-time fast fashion model. The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S. ”