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Meet Indyx, the personal style app that is solving fashion sustainability issue

Inside Retail

Fashion has embraced technology at every turn from social media to virtual change rooms, yet consumers’ wardrobes have remained analogue. I wanted to build something to reshape our relationship with our wardrobes and rewire how we experience fashion,” she added.

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Why Shona Joy is filling in the missing piece of the circular fashion puzzle

Inside Retail

The term “circular fashion” serves as both a challenge to the fashion industry’s traditional model of take-make-waste and a solution to its environmental impact. But while luxury fashion houses are well-versed in repairs, discussions around circular fashion for premium brands are often limited to rental and resale marketplaces.

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Melbourne Fashion Festival 2023 plans revealed

Inside Retail

Australia’s “longest-running consumer fashion event” – the Paypal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2023 (MFF) – will return to the Royal Exhibition Building in March. Running from March 3-11, the festival will welcome about 3000 guests each night to the building’s reimagined fashion-forward social quarter, dubbed Fashion Forecourt.

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EY Consumer Future Index: Economic Fears Abound, but Americans Still Plan to Spend for the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers have reason to be positive about the holiday season — Americans are still planning to spend about the same or more than last year on gifts, despite the fact that 93% are concerned about the economy and rising living costs, according to EY’s latest Consumer Future Index.

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As France weighs fast-fashion ban, is the circular economy the future of retail?

Inside Retail

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. According to Roy Morgan data, the attitude of Australian consumers is shifting towards the circular economy with 34 per cent of Australians both buying and selling second-hand items. So where does this leave traditional retailers?

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Capri, Tapestry set for mega fashion merger

Inside Retail

Coach’s parent company, Tapestry, is nearing a deal to acquire luxury fashion giant Capri Holdings, marking one of the biggest fashion tie-ups this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. There is more security in embarking on bold international plans as a larger entity.”

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Primark Opens Second U.S. DC, Announces Plans for 4 New Stores

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer also has signed leases for planned new stores in four locations: Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Va.; The new retail stores will total more than 128,000 square feet of retail selling space, offering the latest fashion trends and essentials as well as homewares and beauty items. Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville, Md.;

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