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Game on: How H&M is bringing fast fashion to the metaverse

Inside Retail

Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. Then complement fashion items with accessories, dance moves, music tracks and special effects to create different performances on the Loooptopia catwalk. Fashion for the future.

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Urban Outfitters Launches New Platform for Vintage and Upcycled Apparel

Retail TouchPoints

Image courtesy Urban Outfitters The platform’s aim is to help Gen Z find unique used items “as thrift shops become flooded with fast fashion ecommerce brands,” according to a company statement.

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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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Tommy Hilfiger gets thrifty with ThredUp

Inside Retail

Preppy US fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has partnered with online thrift and consignment store ThredUp to launch a resale program for eligible preloved clothing. The initiative is part of Tommy Hilfiger’s commitment to creating a more sustainable future in fashion, giving its clothing a second life. Is that a concern?

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What Recommerce can Teach Retailers About New Consumer Behaviors and Future-Proofing Sales

Retail TouchPoints

The resale market is growing 11 times faster than traditional retail and is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, far eclipsing the predicted $40 billion market for fast fashion. . This trend involves brands reselling previously owned products at a discount — and it’s caught on quickly.

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Study: Resale to Hit $47B by 2025, Giving Fast Fashion a Run for its Money

Retail TouchPoints

Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over Fast Fashion. It appears that much of that growth will come at the expense of fast fashion. consumers in the next 10 years, fast fashion’s portion will remain roughly flat. Fast fashion and thrift are very similar in a lot of ways,” said Clark.

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Does Buying Local Have A Positive Impact on the Planet?

Independent Retailer

Fast-fashion, a term used to describe the clothing industry business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at low cost, and bringing them to retail stores quickly, is horrible for the environment. Second Hand Shopping Gaining Popularity.