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Step inside the UK’s first department store for secondhand clothes

Inside Retail

An old TopShop store in north London’s Brent Cross shopping centre has been revived after two years of sitting empty since the fast fashion brand closed down. It’s now a vibrant pop-up department store selling pre-loved clothing organised collaboratively by 10 charities.

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Barneys New York Finds a New Home at Forever 21

Retail TouchPoints

Just in time for New York Fashion Week, the iconic, now defunct luxury department store Barneys New York has made its return to fashion, albeit not in a way that many of the brand’s devotees would have imagined. Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 has released a limited-edition collection featuring the Barneys brand.

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. The ‘Attenborough’ effect.

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How Canningvale plans to take Robinsons Singapore back to its roots

Inside Retail

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. Returning to its roots. The future of department stores. ” .

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Candles to cleaning: Diptyque finds beauty “where no beauty is expected”

Inside Retail

In a crowded market like the home fragrance category, where everyone from fast fashion and beauty brands to discount department stores and pharmacists are selling candles, it’s near impossible to create and retain cut-through, much less develop an iconic brand synonymous with luxury and quality like 60-year-old Parisian brand Diptyque.

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2023 in review: 8 stories that rocked retail this year

Retail Gazette

The business had been faltering for some time as it failed to keep up with value rivals B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains, which have all been growing rapidly and stealing its market share. It’s clear there is still much for John Lewis Partnership to do in order to return to former glories, with or without White at the helm.

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Institchu co-founders reveals growth strategy to become ‘household name’

Inside Retail

They think, ‘Oh, I’ll just go to a department store.’ RM: The wedding business is our mass market appeal because you really can talk to anyone who either knows someone getting married, or they’ve got a wedding coming up or they’re a guest, so it kind of works for us. It’s only just beginning.