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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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 Gazette

JUNE 10, 2025

rise in first-quarter sales to €8.27bn (£7.3bn), falling short of analyst expectations of €8.36bn, as the fast-fashion giant faces a more cautious consumer environment. Zara owner Inditex reported a 1.5% The Spanish retailer ’s revenue growth slowed compared with the same period last year, which saw sales increase by 7%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

The immediate availability of a wide array of products is the key to drawing in consumers at CVS as well, where the retail business (as opposed to its pharmacy offerings) accounted for three-quarters of foot traffic last year.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2025

Singapore-based fast-fashion giant Shein sought to reassure customers in a post on its US Instagram account on Thursday, saying: “Some products may be priced differently than before, but the majority of our collections remain as affordable as ever.” De minimis has also been a channel for counterfeit goods.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2025

Enabled by the e-commerce explosion and accelerated by Covid-era consumption, this loophole helped supercharge the rise of ultra-fast fashion giants. Resale platform ThredUp heralded the closure as a critical step towards environmental accountability. In fiscal 2024 alone, more than 1.36 Roughly 60 per cent came from China.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In addition to the rise of fast fashion and seasonal items, trend-driven products have further shortened product life cycles. Unlike traditional methods, which rely heavily on static historical data, predictive analytics uses advanced modeling to account for current and future trends, external variables, and market shifts.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2025

H&M is trying to win shoppers from rivals in the United States by holding prices steady while Zara and Shein raise theirs, as US tariffs disrupt the fast-fashion industry that relies on imports of low-cost clothes from China, Vietnam, and other Asian countries.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. Now, just when the fashion industry should be waking up and breaking free of this vicious cycle, it’s heading in the opposite direction. We’re on a downward spiral, from fast fashion to ultra-fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Resale — the segment of the secondhand market that ThredUP defines as offerings with more curated assortments — is expected to account for more than half of that total, $47 billion , by 2025. Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over Fast Fashion. Fast fashion and thrift are very similar in a lot of ways,” said Clark.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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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

MAY 17, 2022

At the same time, the rental and fast fashion sectors are expected to remain relatively flat, and department stores, value chains and mid-priced specialty retail will lose ground. The fact that thrifting is now trendy doesn’t fully account for the huge growth in the sector — economics have also played a big role.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

In recent decades, fast fashion became incredibly popular due to its cost efficiency, both for manufacturers and consumers. Having these contingencies in place keeps organizations within the supply chain transparent and accountable while encouraging them to make greater environmental efforts in the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. Particularly for those operating in fast fashion, where the negative environmental and social impact of unsustainable practices is increasingly under public and media scrutiny. A Starting Point.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Consumers are also pushing for brands to step away from “fast fashion” trends and promote sustainability in both product development and manufacturing, making efforts to reduce or offset their carbon footprints. Fashion, style and clothing have always been about innovation and imagination.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2022

An American freelance artist has sued Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein for US$100 million, alleging the company copied her artwork without permission. She further related accounts of four other artists who discovered their artistic works had been used on products being sold by Shein online.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

While Amazon might offer a discount to all customers, Shein and Temu treat sales and coupons as gated assets, with discounts typically only available for shoppers who open an account. Shein uses user data insights to predict what products customers will want in the future, effectively taking fast fashion to the next level.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Global emissions from transportation account for approximately 16%, and plastics 4%, of total greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fast-fashion retailer H& M announced plans to close approximately 250 stores next year as it seeks to step up the pace of its transformation via digital investments, store portfolio optimization and increasingly integrated channels. H&M has not yet identified which stores will be shuttered.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Amid the rise of fast fashion and social media platforms accelerating consumptive behaviour, it appears that many Australians aren’t wearing or re-wearing the clothes they purchase. This was highlighted by the Fashion Resale Report from online retailer Reluv and Monash University. Consumer behaviours will also inevitably change.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

For example, 60% of customers say they would be willing to pay more for a product with sustainable packaging, so it is paramount that businesses stay with the times and account for these shifting consumer preferences. One industry with a particularly negative environmental impact is the retail industry.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2023

The offer is also seen as an expansion of the business’ successful click-and-collect offer, launched last year, which now accounts for up to 20 per cent of online orders. The demand is there to get the product straight away, but not everyone can necessarily go to their local store to pick it up,” he explained.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2021

Over the past 18 months, privately-held Shein, whose official name is Zoetop Business Co, has taken the fast-fashion world by storm. The company’s Instagram and TikTok accounts have more than 23 million followers, many of them young women showing off its cheap clothes, such as $9 dresses and $15 shoes.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2022

“We are committed to changing how a modern menswear brand should operate and are focusing on the things that matter: quality, fairness and the environmental impact of what goes into our garments – rather than making fast fashion garments. The clothing industry accounts for over 10 per cent of global carbon emissions.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2022

Incredibly, the second-hand clothing sector is expected to grow faster than fast fashion in 2022 and the resale market is expected to grow 11 times faster than the broader clothing sector by 2025. Without clear accountability among those responsible for operational performance, sustainability will not gain traction.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. “They … are emerging as the most important drivers in the industry.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Since the fast fashion brand first launched on Tmall in China in 2018, it has continued to embrace third-party marketplaces in the broader region, including Myntra in India and Zalora in Southeast Asia. “I And nowhere is this more apparent than in Asia, where online marketplaces dominate the local e-commerce industry.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

UK-based fast fashion brand Boohoo recently announced that it had tapped US celebrity and influencer Kourtney Kardashian as its “sustainability ambassador” and launched a “sustainability journey” campaign that included a capsule collection and mini-series. “A spoiler alert for everyone: you can’t.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

Fast Fashion trends downward, still, but there’s hope : There have been some fluctuations in fast fashion revenues, but ultimately this retail sector is down YoY: from -20% in mid-March, it has now dropped to -29.1% However, sessions are significantly down. in mid-April 2020.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2021

It has fallen onto Horowitz to reposition the A&F brand and target a slightly older target market of 21- to 24-year olds, leaving sister brand Hollister – which actually accounts for 60 per cent of the group’s sales – to focus on the teen market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Despite the controversies, the fast-fashion brand has been named one of Gen Z’s favorite brands and one of the fashion industry’s most popular brands. SHEIN’s incredible reach, amplified through influencers, and its focus on creating on-trend items at an extremely rapid pace can be thanked for that.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

alone, secondhand apparel accounted for $43 billion in sales in 2023, and it’s expected to reach $73 billion by 2028. And a bill in France that would impose levies on fast fashion companies and restrict their advertising opportunities is making its way through that country’s parliament. In the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JULY 16, 2023

To O’Loughlin, having a number of external partners on such a project not only makes it easier to complete, but also provides a level of accountability that can be difficult to achieve in a wholly internal project. We know that we have a responsibility.

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