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Bluestar Revives Justice as Online-Only Retailer, Plans to Expand Tween Brand into Tech, Home

Retail TouchPoints

Justice has returned as an online-only retailer with the launch of its new ecommerce site, ShopJustice.com. The tween retailer shuttered its remaining brick-and-mortar locations in late 2020 — which had numbered 2,800 at the brand’s peak — following the bankruptcy of parent company Ascena Retail Group.

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Fashion insiders weigh in on the uncertain future of Australian Fashion Week

Inside Retail

“Originally the event has always been based on trade with a consumer event later, and in the last few years we have seen them merging this and not investing in getting overseas buyers to come to Australia,” Phoebes Garland, co-founder of Garland & Garland, a fashion and lifestyle brand management agency, told Inside Retail.

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PVH Sells Off Heritage Brands as it Turns Focus to Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger

Retail TouchPoints

is selling its Heritage Brands portfolio — which includes the Izod , Van Heusen , Arrow and Geoffrey Beene brands — to fellow brand management firm Authentic Brands Group for approximately $220 million. This sale marks the latest in a broader shakeup among the larger brand management firms.

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Behind Desigual’s repositioning and its Asia Pacific expansion

Inside Retail

Earlier this month, Desigual partnered with Melbourne-based brand management firm O’Rourke Showroom to unveil its spring-summer collection, further expanding its retail distribution in Asia Pacific. Inside Retail: What are the reasons behind Desigual’s return to Australia?

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EssilorLuxottica acquires Supreme from VF: attractive deal or risky move?

Inside Retail

That said, EssilorLuxottica has strong distribution capabilities and is good at brand management, so Supreme fits better with them than it did with VF,” he said. Meanwhile, Dixon believes Supreme can still prosper if EssilorLuxottica allows them to operate independently and doesn’t manage it with an FMCG mindset.

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Inside Incu’s digital relaunch plans for A.P.C. and Rag & Bone

Inside Retail

If you look at all the barriers to purchase on the sites [in the past], you were paying for shipping, you weren’t able to do click-and-collect – we’re working on that – you couldn’t return locally, nothing was in the local currency. DL: We hired a new marketing manager, new buying manager, new creative brand manager.

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The rise of Sheike: From Sydney market stall to style authority

Inside Retail

We’ll also look to remove some of the barriers around returns and exchanges. How has the brand managed to stay relevant and continued to appeal to its target market over all that time? We’re planning for that to [launch] mid 2022. Hopefully, June. IR: Sheike was founded over 40 years ago.

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