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Pricing and consumer perception: Why fast-fashion brands launch premium ranges

Inside Retail

The value of luxury and premium fashion goods is often in their design, storytelling and product quality. But recently, fast-fashion brands including Zara, H&M, Mango, Urban Outfitters and Topshop have been testing limited-run premium collections in addition to their regular and frequent product drops.

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ThredUP Forges Ahead with its War on Fast Fashion Amid Cost-Cutting Initiatives

Retail TouchPoints

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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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

But everyone is talking about brand delivered, brand fulfilled, e-concessions and digital concessions. Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. E-commerce is undergoing a structural change.

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New Fast Fashion Powerhouse: Shein Teams Up with Forever 21

Retail TouchPoints

Shein also has been on an expansion path of its own: In October 2022 Shein launched Shein Exchange , a platform for buying and selling previously owned Shein products; In May 2023 Shein opened its platform to third-party sellers; and In June 2023 Shein expanded its product assortment beyond fashion.

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Ryman owner Theo Paphitis urges government to plug tax loopholes used by fast fashion giants

Retail Gazette

Ryman owner Theo Paphitis is the latest British retailer to call on the government for a clampdown on a tax loophole used by fast fashion giants such as Temu and Shein. It’s becoming absolutely clear that the emperor has no clothes on.”

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How Shein and Temu are driving up the cost of air freight

Inside Retail

The rapid rise of fast-fashion e-commerce retailers such as Shein and Temu is upending the global air cargo industry, as they increasingly vie for limited air-cargo space to woo consumers with rapid transit times, more than ten industry sources said. TikTok Shop did not return messages seeking comment.

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Primark mulls click-and-collect trial expansion

Retail Gazette

The fast fashion chain is currently trialling click-and-collect across 57 stores, for its womenswear and kidswear products. Primark is looking to expand its click-and-collect trial across further stores, with the possibility of launching the service to markets outside Britain, its CEO has confirmed.