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

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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 New fast fashion is getting zero of my coin this year!”

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Forever 21 Shop City Debuts in Metaverse

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For the visual merchandiser in all of us, fast fashion brand Forever 21 (Los Angeles) will allow players of metaverse platform Roblox create and operate their own custom virtual fashion boutiques, reports Venture Beat.

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At the home of Zara, fast and slow fashion collide

Inside Retail

In Spain’s A Coruna, two contrasting fashion business models collide – pitching the growing demands for the clothing industry to become more sustainable against the constant need to drive sales. They don’t add new products mid-season and they charge online shoppers for returns to encourage conscientious shopping.

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6 hugely popular fashion retailers that fell out of favour

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette takes a look at the fashion retailers that were once some of the most coveted brands around but now no longer hold mass appeal. Hollister A decade ago, you couldn’t walk into a shopping centre without seeing rafts of teenagers clutching Hollister shopping bags with shirtless men plastered on the fronts.

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

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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 The influence of generative AI has even inspired Anthropologie to partner with Google on its new AI shopping feature.

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At What Goes Around Comes Around, Store Designs Reflect Founders’ Passion for Luxury Vintage Resale

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It’s been 30 years since Seth Weisser and Gerard Maione opened their vintage boutique, What Goes Around Comes Around (WGACA) during the 1990s emergence of consumer appreciation for preloved garments. Now the owners of three locations — two in Manhattan, including the original SoHo shop on West Broadway, and one in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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‘More is more’: Q&A with Camilla CEO, Jane McNally

Inside Retail

You’re offering virtual shopping experiences now. Because as well as being a fashion designer brand, we are a digital-first business. All the appointment slots that we offered customers for accompanied shopping filled overnight. First and foremost, we’re not a fast-fashion brand. JM: Absolutely.

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