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3 Ways Fashion Brands can Move Toward Sustainable Business Models

Retail TouchPoints

As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Produced by a collective societal desire for more holistic, eco-friendly products, shoppers are frequently prioritizing purchases of items with natural fibers rather than synthetics.

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Carhartt, cowboys and the romanticisation of the middle class

Inside Retail

They have realigned their strategies to target older consumers with higher incomes who are typically less affected by economic downturns and spending more than pre-pandemic levels. Hermès, for example, is eschewing catering to the masses and doubling down on its scarcity-driven product and sales model.

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Closing the Billion-Dollar Gap in Returns Waste

Retail TouchPoints

Recommerce, the sale of secondhand merchandise, is a hot topic as consumers become more enthused about recycling goods rather than contributing to enormous mountains of landfill waste. While secondhand marketplaces are steadily growing, they barely make a dent in the billions of items today’s consumers generate. Take the U.S.

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Why LVMH outperformed H&M amid a cost-of-living crisis

Inside Retail

H&M and LVMH target very different sectors of the fashion industry. The former, a fast fashion giant based in Sweden, saw a slump in fourth quarter earnings, with its operating profits falling by 87 per cent year on year, and its net profit declining by about 68 per cent. This, he explained, counts against fast fashion. “In

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Fashion and retail are ripe for disruption: The promise of generative AI 

Inside Retail

It speculated that future fashion collections could be made with a creative director and an AI program to bring clothes and accessories to market faster, more efficiently and improve the CX factor as well. According to Sarah Neill, CEO and founder of Mys Tyler , the world of fashion has been ripe for disruption for a long time now.

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Why Chloé’s new team-up with Vestiaire Collective is so innovative

Inside Retail

The range includes ready-to-wear fashion, bags and shoes made of 100 per cent traceable materials and aims to increase the production of raw materials. Chloé Vertical is powered by EON, whose digital IDs enable brands to bring product traceability to the forefront. By 2025, Chloé aims to have digital IDs in all products.

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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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