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“Our mission is to make retail fair”: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham

Inside Retail

The continued pervasive rise of ultra-fast fashion has given many people pause for thought, and we aim to provide an antidote to that in helping customers discover more interesting, unique and individual products that have been made to last and manufactured responsibly by small businesses.

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4 Ways Anthropologie is Building Brand Loyalty While Acquiring New, Younger Customers

Retail TouchPoints

This mantra has allowed Anthropologie to double down on tactics that make its store experience unique, such as its approach to store merchandising, which is more reminiscent of a small boutique than a chain retailer. “We We’re a specialty store with a range of products, so we think about how the consumer experiences the brand.

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Snøhetta designs Oslo fashion store to be a "treasure hunt"

Dezeen

Space travel, race cars and the French Riviera are among the eclectic references that informed Snøhetta 's design for the Moniker boutique in Oslo, Norway. Called Moniker Fashion Universe , the 1,500-metre-square concept store is located in the heart of Oslo's shopping district, near the newly renovated Valkyrien Square.

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‘It’s been a blast’: Feathers founder Margaret Porritt reflects on 50 years

Inside Retail

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. IR: Beyond the fashion side of things, you’re obviously a successful businesswoman.

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VMSD’s Brain Squad Sounds Off on First jobs and Lessons Learned

VMS

Yes, right out of school I was fortunate to work for a designer that had his start as a visual merchandiser for a large department store in Detroit. My very first job was retail at a store called Mandee shops; it was junior sportswear shop with opening price points and fast fashion.

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Frasers vs Next: How big are their growing retail empires?

Retail Gazette

Frasers Group stated that at the time of the acquisition, that the online fast fashion retailer owed £13m to its shareholders. The furniture brand, which had concessions in House of Fraser, reportedly suffered after the department store fell into administration in 2018. Next, which owns 44% of JoJo after it made a £16.3m

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