Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

For decades, there have been continued debates surrounding sustainability and the fashion industry’s position in implementing and maintaining a sustainable value chain, where renewable resources from the environment can be continually used and human rights are protected. An Eco-Conscious Journey. Shifting Attitudes Across the Industry.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Retail has introduced an app in India to sell Sheins fashion products through a licensing agreement, marking the Chinese brand’s return after a five-year ban due to diplomatic tensions. This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

With the marketplace model now driving Debenhams’ growth, Boohoo hopes this fresh approach can turn around not just Debenhams, but its other brands, including the host of struggling fast fashion brands which once were the group’s driving force Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing, and Boohoo Man. Will it work?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The fashion industry is no longer just under-appreciated, it is in an undeclared war. What is it about fashion brands that make them the target of more greenwashing claims than just about any other industry? Do fashion labels make themselves easy targets by setting unrealistic goals and making outlandish claims?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After failing to find a buyer, Dion Lee is set to leave the Australian fashion scene. Rosanna Iacono, fashion industry expert and CEO of strategy consultancy The Growth Activists, said that without apparent potential, a transaction is unlikely.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

However, after several years of diminishing sales in an increasingly competitive fast-fashion market, rumors have been spreading about Forever 21 declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time. As Global Datas managing director Neil Saunders explained, Forever 21 has been battered by the rise of Shein and to a certain extent Temu.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The annual Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW), hosted by The City Of Melbourne, is back and celebrating its 30th anniversary. “It It is quite the milestone, it does mean we’ve officially taken the designer crown of being the longest-running consumer fashion event in Australia,” Matthew Flinn, MFW senior manager, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2025

Here, we speak with #6, Babyboo co-owner and managing director Will Conditsis, about balancing rapid growth and profitability and repositioning the brand from ‘fast-fashion’ to ‘premium’ He also shares the top profession al skill he would still like to develop.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

Fast fashion has normalised using garments for short periods of time, and throwing them away when trends change, driving an unsustainable pattern of overproduction and overconsumption. It envisions that fast fashion will be out of fashion, and that economically profitable re-use and repair services will be widely available.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2023

Asos recently launched its first ever rental edit with UK-based rental marketplace, Hirestreet, as the struggling online fashion retailer attempts to stem its losses amid a decrease in consumer spending. The story so far The move into fashion rentals comes at a critical time for Asos. million (A$165.7

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

In the world of fashion, it has been speculated that it could be possible that future designs on the runways of London, Milan, New York and Paris, could come from generative artificial intelligence programs. 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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2023

The fashion industry has long found itself in a race to be the fastest. The latest brand to capitalise on this trend is luxury fashion house Incu, which, in a partnership with Uber Direct, can now deliver its products to customers in under two hours. It could be a pair of shoes, or a bag, or the actual dress.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Melbourne-based e-commerce platform Airrobe launched three years ago with the mission to bring the circular economy into mainstream fashion. If you think about what the peer-to-peer re-commerce marketplace looks like today for fashion, largely, it hasn’t changed since eBay launched.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

A new study demonstrates how AI can revolutionise fast fashion by improving supply chain efficiencies and in turn reducing the industry’s carbon footprint. The fast fashion industry is valued at US$2.5 trillion and employs some 75 million people, however, its economic impact is underscored by its environmental pollution.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Digital fast fashion retailer Shein has acquired UK women’s retailer Missguided from Frasers Group. Missguided will be managed through the joint venture, and its collections will by manufactured by Shein. Missguided products will be sold as an independent brand on Shein sites as well as on Missguided.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

UK-based Frasers Group , parent company of Sports Direct , House of Fraser and Flannels , has reportedly acquired digital fashion retailer Missguided for $25.1 The fast fashion company first fell into financial difficulties in fall 2021 but was saved when private equity firm Alteri stepped in to buy a controlling stake.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2023

To what extent can fast fashion brands make inroads in their sustainable practices and reduce their textile waste without fundamentally changing their business and operating model? This further fuel[s] their hyper-fast fashion model.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

She noted that while reverse logistics in particular is very complex, Goodwill has developed and perfected the infrastructure to help manage that, while offering alternative paths to circularity. Were increasingly over-consuming, largely due to fast fashion, so we need solutions for textiles, Kobe noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. Take for example Ingka Group , a strategic partner in the IKEA franchisee system, which acquired approximately 60,000 acres of forestland in Oklahoma and Texas to boost its responsible forest management. Greater demand forecasting. Recommerce.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2025

Today, Francescas evergreen pieces, like their stacking bracelets, represent the kind of brand longevity most fast-fashion jewellery houses envy. Their long-term vision includes launching a dedicated foundation to manage impact directly. That shift has paid off. Hanna noted.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As mass production continues to dominate the fashion and homewares industries, there is this growing desire to break free from mainstream trends and curate a wardrobe or living space that reflects our own personal identity. This gravitation towards uniqueness is again deeply rooted in human psychology. Nostalgia also plays a significant role.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

Depop’s peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand fashion is the 10 th -most-visited shopping site among Gen Z consumers in the U.S., The site is primarily known for its vintage, streetwear and Y2K (late 1990s/early 2000s) fashion. reaching $64 billion and ultimately becoming twice the size of the fast fashion sector globally.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Shein, the China-founded fast-fashion retailer, has bought the Missguided brand from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, the e-commerce giant’s first purchase of a British brand. Missguided will be managed through the joint venture, and its products will be manufactured by Shein.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Fast-fashion giant H&M is to close its high-profile store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, unable to agree on lease terms with owner Scentre Group. H&M country manager Thomas Coellner said in a statement that the decision was made following a global review of sustainable store operations. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The fast fashion retailer initially re-entered China for the third time in August 2021 through online platforms Vipshop and Pinduoduo. to manage Forever 21’s China operations. Forever 21 will expand its presence in China with a physical store slated to open later in June 2022, according to a WeChat post seen by Reuters.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These struggles to improve manufacturing processes are most visible in the textiles industry given the “fast fashion” trend — rapidly producing large volumes of inexpensive garments designed to capitalize on style trends. Sanjay Tugnait is the Chief Market Maker and Global Managing Partner – Sustainability Practice for IBM Consulting.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supply bottlenecks, slower product deliveries and higher freight and labour costs risk shifting the fast fashion industry into the slow lane, as shown this week by British online fashion retailer Asos. Cheap supplies from Asia have been central to many fast fashion business models. The post Not so fast!

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

All eyes are on Boohoo Group’s new chief executive Dan Finley who is tasked with not only turning around the struggling online fashion group but dealing with disgruntled shareholder Mike Ashley. Finley’s appointment has further riled up Ashley.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

Moves by authorities in the European Union and elsewhere to end tax breaks for low-value parcels threaten Shein’s profitability and risk denting the fast fashion retailer’s long-term attractiveness ahead of its planned stock market debut, investors who focus on the sector said. per cent of sales.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Fast-fashion giant H&M is to close its high-profile store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, unable to agree on lease terms with owner Scentre Group. H&M country manager Thomas Coellner said in a statement that the decision was made following a global review of sustainable store operations. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Shein uses user data insights to predict what products customers will want in the future, effectively taking fast fashion to the next level. million products to its catalog daily, compared to 35,000 products a year for the fast fashion retailer Zara.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2022

An American freelance artist has sued Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein for US$100 million, alleging the company copied her artwork without permission. Stephenson’s filing argues that by using Shein’s name and logo on the product’s packaging, Shein has added “false” copyright management information. “In

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

Compared with ten years ago, when I was on the retail side as a store manager, the amount of customisations that girls want, and the amount of changes on a dress, have increased because now everyone is ‘special’,” White explained. It has it all.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

She previously served as CMO of The RealReal from 2012 to 2019 and owned Anica Boutique , a fashion and home store. Julian has served as CFO since 2021 and has over 30 years of financial management experience in both public and private companies. Levesque has served as President of The RealReal since 2021 and COO since 2019.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Amid the rise of fast fashion and social media platforms accelerating consumptive behaviour, it appears that many Australians aren’t wearing or re-wearing the clothes they purchase. This was highlighted by the Fashion Resale Report from online retailer Reluv and Monash University. Consumer behaviours will also inevitably change.

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