Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull has continued to expand its leading offer with the arrival of Spanish fashion retailer Mango. Ardent UK acquired Touchwood in summer 2021, the first major shopping centre acquisition since the onset of the pandemic, in a deal that effectively called the retail investment market.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

Fashion has embraced technology at every turn from social media to virtual change rooms, yet consumers’ wardrobes have remained analogue. A closet full of clothes and nothing to wear is an age-old problem that has only been exacerbated by the convenience of online shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New year, new you,” is a slightly hackneyed marketing trope, but it is still true that consumers are, in fact, looking to improve their lives at the beginning of the year. The customer has evolved in these two decades and expects a unified shopping experience in which their favorite brands behave the same way online as they do in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2024

Our shared demographic has an equal passion and awareness for personal style, carrying through to both fashion and home décor. In addition to shopping M.M. From the onset, our aim was to reinforce and amplify our shared values around luxury living across both fashion and home décor,” said Soriano. “By

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall. We are only just scratching the surface.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Okanui has entered the Northern Territory market with the opening of its first Darwin store. The new shop will offer coastal apparel for men, women, and children and will feature Okanui’s ‘Escape the Everyday’ style. billion in visitor spending across the NT last year.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

J Crew’s catalogue has long been a coveted fashion reference to timeless style and now the brand is ready to capitalise on its own lore. While few brands can be as self-referential as J Crew with an extensive back-catalogue that dates back to 1983, many fashion retailers continue the tradition of a print catalogue.

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Retail Focus

MAY 8, 2024

True Fit , the AI-driven platform that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced that, following its launch in Shopify at the end of 2023, it is now driving a 14% average GMV growth for fashion brands on the platform, giving rise to the next generation of scaling fashion retailers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

This year’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) was a 15-day-long parade of emerging and established Australian designers spanning over 100 unique events. Premium runways were staged inside Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building against the backdrop of the news that Victoria is Australia’s fashion manufacturing capital.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Australian fashion label Ena Pelly has opened its first physical store in Melbourne, coinciding with the introduction of EP Athleisure, a new sportswear line. EP Athleisure Collection 01 is available to shop via the Ena Pelly website.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. Traditionally, shopping more sustainably and saving money have been key drivers behind buying secondhand but the research found the cost-of-living crisis has one in 10 Aussies doing it out of necessity.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

To help plus-sized men find good-value fashion, menswear label Connor has launched AXL+Co into the Australian market. Owned by parent company Retail Apparel Group, the company says the launch comes after market research identified a “major gap” in the market for men who consider themselves ‘plus-size’.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Nava Rose models one of her styles for the Dump Fast Fashion shop on ThredUP. “I Together with ThredUP, I’m committed to ghosting fast fashion.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fashion retailer Sosandar has signed deals with The Iconic in Australia and The Bay in Canada to start its e-commerce operations in these countries as part of its overseas expansion. “Our decision to open our own stores is the logical next step as we look to offer our customers more ways to engage and shop with Sosandar.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products. Here are some of the overarching themes of the changing consumer sentiment that will shape the fashion industry’s journey ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

Shop Premium Outlets (SPO) — the online marketplace from mall operator Simon Property Group and Rue Gilt Groupe — has launched a retail media network powered by Mirakl Ads, a new retail media offering from marketplace solution Mirakl (on which SPO is built).

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Curated, cosy, soft-furnishing refuges from the winter weather await, alongside the re-creation of intimate spaces on iconic Fiveways streets that welcome the sunshine and fashion retail. The Memo, Melbourne, Victoria Highpoint Shopping Centre, Maribyrnong Baby goods retailer The Memo was created to clear the clutter of the industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Rakuten has returned to New York Fashion Week and is offering its members exclusive items for pre-sale from the runway shows of designers Prabal Gurung , Sergio Hudson , Patricia Bonaldi ( PatBO ) and Rachel Scott ( Diotima ). The items will be revealed in the designers’ respective shows during NYFW, which kicks off Feb.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Armadale’s High Street has become one of the most expensive shopping destinations in Melbourne and the row of retailers is essentially a who’s who of Australian fashion. All the connotations that come with high street shopping carry through to Armadale’s High Street with its pedestrian walkways lined with shops.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

European fashion retailer and Creative Retail Awards winner Modivo, has turned to display technology from PPDS to create and open a futuristic new store in Warsaw, combining the benefits of online and physical shopping for a highly unique and transformative customer experience. . The benchmark for retail has been set.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Though many of the economic indicators were excellent, including the low unemployment numbers and strong GDP growth, there was a lot of uncertainty in the market throughout the year. According to online shopping data from Adobe Analytics , Black Friday sales were $9.8 billion, up 7.5% from last year. from 2022 to $222.1

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Australian knitwear brand Mia Fratino is on a mission to disrupt the fashion industry and change for the better the way stores – and consumers – buy clothes. I came into the relationship as a designer and a marketer and he’s very much the manufacturing and logistics part of it. He moved his premises offshore about 12 years ago.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pre-loved consciously curated boutique fittings At the intersection of Gould and Hall Street, the Bondi Beach store is situated in a sought-after location on the suburb’s premier shopping strip. A family affair Founded on the Gold Coast in 2001, Dissh is an Australian fashion brand that is owned, run, and led by women.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

JLL Retail Property Management has introduced a new virtual shopper agent named Cindy , designed to make the online experience more relevant and engaging at 13 of its shopping centers across the U.S. With her infectious voice and charming manner, she’s here to spill the tea on all things fashion and trends.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Following a career spanning public and foreign policy, as well as nuclear diplomacy, Katrina Van De Ven decided to focus on her other love: fashion. Over a 12 month period, Van De Van created what is now one of Australia’s most exciting plus-sized fashion offers: LükBook. In short – there is no such thing as an average day.

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2023

Clothing brand The Shapes United has become the first Australian adaptive fashion label to be sold through US retail giant Walmart. The Shapes United has made its mark in the industry as an adaptive fashion brand, with a range of apparel designed for all people, including those living with a disability or mobility impairments.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Resale platform ThredUP has debuted a new, light-hearted marketing ploy in its ongoing battle against “fast fashion addiction,” mere days after announcing it was joining the ranks of tech companies cutting staff amid an economic slowdown. A Fast Fashion Confessional to Help Gen Z. Strong Q2 Masks Impending Slowdown.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2023

This is just part of the conversation happening with fashion brands and retailers across the country as pressures mount to gain control over notoriously complex supply chains and work towards circular, sustainable business practices. per cent of fashion shoppers look for Australian made. Earlier this year, R.M.

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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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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Primark is set to launch its first ever Swap Shop initiative, offering customers the chance to exchange pre-loved and vintage clothing at select stores across the UK. Shoppers can visit the Swap Shop on the ground floor for three days until Sunday, 15th September.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Primark is launching its first Swap Shop initiative for customers to exchange pre-loved and vintage clothing in its stores. The first Swap Shop event will coincide with the city-wide London Fashion Week celebrations and will be located in Primark’s Westfield Stratford City store from Friday 13 September to Sunday 15 September.

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2023

Clothing brand The Shapes United has become the first Australian adaptive fashion label to be sold through US retail giant Walmart. The Shapes United has made its mark in the industry as an adaptive fashion brand, with a range of apparel designed for all people, including those living with a disability or mobility impairments.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rebag customers can now resell gently worn items on ThredUp to earn Rebag shopping credit, and ThredUp customers can now shop select Rebag inventory directly on Thredup.com. Additionally, ThredUp customers will now find a range of luxury handbags from Rebag on Thredup.com. ” . ”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Shoppers have been so eager to applaud sustainable apparel production that the eco-fashion industry faces concerns both in terms of greenwashing and stiff competition verging on saturation.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Barcelona, women stand at conveyor belts, manually sorting T-shirts, jeans and dresses from large bales of used clothing – a small step towards tackling Europe’s towering problem of discarded fashion. It did not respond to a request for comment on the suggestion it needed to do more.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2024

Long gone are the days of Victoria’s Secret’s fashion show and ‘fantasy bra’ taking centre stage and setting trends for brands and retailers globally. Parade was founded by Columbia University dropout Cami Téllez in 2019, with a purpose to disrupt the market and champion inclusivity, body positivity and sustainable manufacturing.

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