Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2025

Fast Fashion Faces the Biggest Challenge The world has long known the detrimental effects that ultra-cheap fast fashion brands have on the environment. If prices rise, even marginally, and begin to approach those of their better-quality alternatives, fast fashion loses its appeal.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The demand for Shein’s products didnt evaporate after the ban, creating a gap in the market that other fast-fashion brands, including Indian ones, are now scrambling to fill. The company estimates the fast fashion segment to reach $50 billion by FY31. The sector grew at a rate of between 30 and 40 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Having the security of being accompanied by a partner with the experience and capabilities of Nedap in the fashion industry gave us full confidence that we were in the best hands to help us realize our full potential. Initially founded as a menswear brand, Alcott added a womens collection in 2000.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Online fast-fashion retailer Boohoo is launching a strategic review to determine how it can best maximize shareholder value after a difficult few years, according to multiple sources.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

She led a brand refresh for the fast fashion retailer, focusing on younger consumers with a social-media-first approach to customer engagement. Co-founder Thomas Vellios will continue as Chairman of the Five Below board and work with the executive team to drive the retailers strategic priorities.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2025

This fast-moving cycle pressures brands to accelerate production and delivery. Ultra-fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu have leveraged advanced analytics and agile supply chains to dominate the market. Fast fashions dominance and its impact Fast fashion has transformed retail dynamics.

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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. Basically, the competitive bar is now set a lot higher in fast fashion, and Forever 21 has had trouble getting over it.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I think that high fashion has priced itself out. Fifteen years ago, fast fashion dupes were crap, but today, fast fashion dupes have gone up in quality. Higher prices for real items have been accompanied by higher quality for dupes. Today the dupes are awesome, said Hyman. trillion ( $1.56

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2025

“Scaling access to these solutions is key to accelerating the shift toward a circular economy for fashion.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“We are seeing a fundamental shift in search marketing dynamics and the fast fashion brands are now outbidding the traditional retailers, and it does look like their strategies are a lot more aggressive,” she said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2025

Online fast fashion label Shein has launched Aralina, a new brand inspired by the Australian lifestyle. Aralina, which distinguishes itself with minimalism and sustainability goals, offers a take on casual wear, loungewear, swimwear, and athleisure designed with comfort, confidence and authenticity in mind, the company says.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The fast fashion retailer will donate $150,000 up front, with the remaining $50,000 to be raised via in-store PIN pad donations during customer transactions. Uniqlo has partnered with Feeding America to help provide 2 million meals to the organizations local partner food banks across the U.S. Through Dec.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2025

Zara – Nanjing, China Inditex-owned fast-fashion retailer Zara opened a key Asia-focussed store in Nanjing’s CBD, as part of its retail network revitalisation strategy. This combination, along with the mirrors, creates a luminescence diffuser, casting flickering reflections onto the walls and floor.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2025

The brand allows women to share and rent over 50,000 designer dresses, generating revenue for lenders, and helps reduce the environmental toll of fast fashion. Peer-to-peer dress sharing platform Derignerex has been acquired by the Sarai family after it entered into administration in March.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

This generation is driving the secondhand fashion boom, pushing back against fast fashion and demanding that brands take a stand on climate change, diversity, and equity. Sustainability, ethical labor practices and community impact aren’t niche concerns — they’re deal-breakers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2025

Hays: In both my personal and professional opinion, luxury has always been more sustainable than mass market fashion, and certainly fast fashion, in part because the luxury market can procure more expensive materials.

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Fashion Apparel Inventory Management Fast Fashion 162

Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2025

And so began his first role at Topshop and a storied career that now sees him in the role of president of Primark US, the Irish fast-fashion chain, which last year turned over US$12.9 “There were so many parts of retail that I really, really enjoyed that I knew as soon as those two weeks were over … that I wanted that to be in retail.”

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

These results point to a fragmented fashion market, split between ultra-fast fashion, low-cost in-store experiences, and brands carving out niches in premium or differentiated segments. Average order values rose from €58.8 and operating profit margins improved by 2.9 percentage points to 3.9%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Were increasingly over-consuming, largely due to fast fashion, so we need solutions for textiles, Kobe noted. We need recyclers that have this big technology where they can take our clothing and break it down to create new versions of fibers and create a new product for a market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The fashion industry, in particular, has come under scrutiny for its environmental impact for some time, with Australia alone discarding 222,000 tonnes of clothing annually into landfill. As a result, consumers are turning and looking to second-hand shopping as a more sustainable alternative to fast fashion.

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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

MAY 22, 2025

Today, Francescas evergreen pieces, like their stacking bracelets, represent the kind of brand longevity most fast-fashion jewellery houses envy. Francesca became this rebirth of the brand in the sense of a new demographic, that younger generation. That shift has paid off. Hanna noted.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

Despite its tailored approach, Urban Revivo remains unapologetically fast. From trend to retail shelf in 10 days, its vertically integrated supply chain rivals the speed of fashions fastest giants. The London store, for example, carries just 800 SKUs.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A notable gap is apparent, though, between values and actions, as many still shop frequently on fast-fashion platforms like Shein. This paradox suggests opportunities for retailers to bridge the gap by making sustainable choices more accessible and appealing. Affordability also remains a critical factor.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The fast fashion giant is purchasing clothes from GN Euro once again, the Telegraph reported, after being “disengaged” back in 2021. Boohoo is facing criticism for bringing back a supplier it previously axed after its modern slavery scandal.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Frasers, which owns a 27% stake in the fast fashion giant, has been campaigning for its founder Mike Ashley to take a seat at the board and put an end to what it described as “dismal results, lack of transparency, terrible refinancing, and further supply chain allegations”.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

.” Streeter agrees that “finding new ways of revitalising its young fashion brands such as PrettyLittleThing…would be far more likely to move the dial” Similarly, independent analyst Nick Bubb calls Finley a “rising star”, but also warns that “he won’t find it easy to drive better trading in Boohoo’s fast fashion (..)

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The fast fashion giant has been working with the likes of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley on its preparations. Shein has enlisted more banks to help it line up its potential initial public offering in London.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 20, 2025

UK-based fast fashion retailer In The Style is understood to have been bought out of administration. Accounting firm FTS Recovery was taken on as administrator of the struggling fashion brand on 10 March.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 3, 2025

The DGCCRF – the French anti-fraud agency – said the fast fashion giant gave the impression of offering major discounts by inflating prices before slashing them, creating what it called “deceptive commercial practices”. Shein has faced mounting criticism across Europe for fuelling overconsumption and undercutting rivals.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

The fast fashion brands saw a 21% drop in sales from 1.2bn to 94m year-on-year. Related Story Debenhams poaches Asos business development lead 10/03/2025 x 7:30 AM The company said the new lean operating model was “critical to the turnaround of the youth brands”, which include PLT, Boohoo and Man.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The report found that while Shein and Temu were fast-growing, “complaints about quality of goods, unethical production processes, unfair advantages in shipping, and increased nationalism” meant they were targets of environmental groups and governments.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is probably because consumers are more interested in continuing to get technically superior and trendy clothes (and cheap ones in the case of fast fashion), than they are in environmental or social impacts. Lululemon is pumping out strong revenue growth, particularly internationally.

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Retail Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Following the news that theboohoo group has rebranded as the Debenhams group; Chloe Collins, head of apparel at GlobalData, offers her view: The boohoo groups rebrand to become the Debenhams group highlights how much its youth fast fashion brandsPrettyLittleThing,boohoo.com, and boohooMANcontinue to struggle.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The credentials to create a more sustainable future were never seriously acknowledged, but this has become a key selling point for pre-loved fashion. Overconsumption within the fashion industry has become a significant problem, further exacerbated by the rise of fast fashion and discount retailers such as Shein.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The fast fashion retailer has seen its financial performance deteriorate in recent years – a stark difference from the 105m it was once valued at when it floated on the stock market in 2019.

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