Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Sana’s success and how it’s using offcuts to make fast fashion more sustainable. As the consumer has access to endless information and content, the notion and impact of fast fashion and its effect on both the environment and labourers is common knowledge. Inside Retail : How did you come up with the idea for St.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July. Precise data on the growth of clothing waste is scarce but collection for recycling and reuse increased gradually in several European countries from around 2010, a 2021 EU report said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. With fast fashion off the table for many, shoppers – and retail brands – are getting creative like locally owned, fashion re-sell business, a new favourite of mine, Love it Longer, on leafy Rathdowne Street in Carlton North, Victoria.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2021

We conducted in-depth interviews with 21 women who buy “fast fashion” – “on-trend” clothing made and sold at very low cost – to find out how much they think about the conditions of the workers who make their clothes, and and what effort they take to avoid slave-free clothing. Read the original article.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2024

While many speculate about the reasons that established designers are partnering with the ultra-fast fashion company, it is apparent that Shein is using the program to separate itself from accusations that it trades in dupes and copycats. Shein’s investment in Shein X could serve to bolster its lead in the women’s clothing category.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2024

The pop-up comes amid a major push by the fast fashion app to grow its Canadian consumer base that also has included a sustainability-focused pop-up in Vancouver and a “moving billboard” campaign on streetcars across Toronto.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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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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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Products shipped cross-border by Chinese online fast-fashion giant Shein have been found to contain toxic chemicals at rates twice the level allowed under EU regulations, according to a report prepared by Greenpeace in Germany.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Sydney-based womenswear label Sotto Brand has made its debut at New York Fashion Week with its SS24 collections, eyeing global expansion. The show also introduced Sotto Brand’s first venture into footwear and accessories. The post Sotto heads to the US with NYFW debut appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Zara is set to open its first Australian store to feature the fashion brand’s latest global Couture/Atelier design concept. The Spanish fast-fashion label will renovate its Burnside Village store in June with a reopening in the new guise scheduled for October.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

Venetia Fryzer, an Edited retail analyst, noted that bridal accessories have gained popularity in the US market, as lower-ticket items that can be worn from engagement through to honeymoon. It has it all.” While there is a bride for every dress, when you want to get into the true bridal scene, it would be pretty challenging,” she said.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2022

If you’re a fashion retailer, this could be new accessories to change the look of the outfit as a more economical alternative to a whole new wardrobe. The stressors of economic uncertainty make fast fashion purchases feel frivolous.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

Unlike fast fashion, the underbelly of counterfeit culture is less discussed; counterfeits harm the environment, are often produced unethically and undermine genuine brands,” said Levesque.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

A new study demonstrates how AI can revolutionise fast fashion by improving supply chain efficiencies and in turn reducing the industry’s carbon footprint. The fast fashion industry is valued at US$2.5 trillion and employs some 75 million people, however, its economic impact is underscored by its environmental pollution.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein may frequently grab headlines for the wrong reasons but there’s no denying the increasing popularity of the controversial brand. As of October 2020, Shein was the world’s largest online-only fashion company, according to Euromonitor International. The price of fast fashion.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

GU has landed, too Uniqlo, though frequently referred to inaccurately as a ‘fast fashion’ retailer, is neither fast nor particularly at the cutting edge of trends. Sibling brand GU is more trendy, lower-priced and closer to a true fast fashion concept. This is GU’s first permanent store outside of Asia.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

To what extent can fast fashion brands make inroads in their sustainable practices and reduce their textile waste without fundamentally changing their business and operating model? This further fuel[s] their hyper-fast fashion model.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These struggles to improve manufacturing processes are most visible in the textiles industry given the “fast fashion” trend — rapidly producing large volumes of inexpensive garments designed to capitalize on style trends. For example, Ängöl Brewery released Helt Spårat, a beer traceable on the blockchain.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Australian fast-fashion brand Princess Polly has expanded in the US opening a flagship store in Los Angeles. Established in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Wez and Eirin Bryett, the Gold Coast brand sells on-trend women’s clothing for predominantly Gen Z consumers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2021

On Thursday, Ikea will be launching a limited edition 10-piece clothing and accessories range in Australia, both online and in-stores. Meanwhile, its Japanese competitor Muji also sells apparel and accessories alongside homewares and furnishings. It’s not the first time furniture retailers have become lifestyle brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2020

Walmart continues its mission to elevate its reputation in fashion with its new ThredUP partnership, which gives e-Commerce shoppers access to secondhand merchandise across the full spectrum of prestige — from luxury names such as Chanel and Prada to middle-market Ann Taylor LOFT and Lands’ End to affordable Old Navy and fast-fashion leader H&M.

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2023

Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M has sued Chinese rival Shein in Hong Kong over copyright infringement. The Swedish retailer is seeking compensation for unspecified damages and an injunction to prevent Shein from repeating the copyright violation, according to Bloomberg.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Fast-fashion giant H&M is to close its high-profile store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, unable to agree on lease terms with owner Scentre Group. H&M country manager Thomas Coellner said in a statement that the decision was made following a global review of sustainable store operations. “At

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

The second-hand market is projected to grow at a 39 per cent compound annual growth rate from 2019 to 2024 in the United States, reaching $64 billion, and to grow to twice the size of fast fashion on a global basis, Etsy said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

It speculated that future fashion collections could be made with a creative director and an AI program to bring clothes and accessories to market faster, more efficiently and improve the CX factor as well. An article from McKinsey & Co explores this idea in some depth.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Especially in this era of fast fashion, most retail products are produced overseas and shipped thousands of miles to their destination. The airplanes, ships and trucks used to transport these materials consume significant amounts of fossil fuels, which are tremendously bad for the environment.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2022

Launching in 2021, Alder & Green is re-establishing what a modern menswear brand should be, by developing responsible men’s shirts and accessories to encourage consumers to buy less and buy better. Fashion brands have altered our attitudes through fast fashion, prioritising profit margins over ethical production.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2024

“To run that business, to buy premium fabric that is recycled, to not buy in huge fast fashion quantities, the cost of marketing, the cost of producing something that is truly quality and will last a lifetime.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fast-fashion giant H&M recently unveiled the autumn/winter 2024 collection from its atelier spinoff H&M Studio. The limited-edition fashion drop signals the brand is “returning to its roots and reconnecting with its community through a global ‘re-ignition’,” H&M’s head of design Eliana Masgalo told Vogue Scandinavia.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 26, 2023

Primark said that seasonal clothing and accessories, and health and beauty sales were “particularly strong” It also highlighted the solid performance of its flagship city centre stores. “As well as seasonal clothing and accessories, sales in health and beauty products were particularly strong.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2022

Because the company makes only what it sells, nothing goes to landfills, producing 48 per cent less carbon than the traditional fast-fashion equivalent.”. “Citizen Wolf re-engineers the way clothes are made at scale to save our planet,” said Zoltan Csaki, co-founder.

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