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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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

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 Gazette

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani is returning to the fast fashion retailer as he vows to make the brand special again. Though in recent years, its profits have waned amid the cost-of-living crisis, inflation and fierce competition from the likes of fast fashion giant Shein.

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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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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

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 22, 2024

Fast fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, it said in its 2023 sustainability report, as it stepped up audits of manufacturers in China to assuage criticisms of its low-cost business model ahead of a planned flotation. Reporting by Helen Reid; Editing by Jan Harvey, of Reuters.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. Fashion reparations?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Valued at US$100 billion ($150 billion) , fast fashion brand Shein is in hot water after a recent Channel 4 documentary hosted by British journalist Iman Amrani, Inside The Shein Machine , lifted the veil of secrecy behind the corporation’s operations in China. The next step. A race to the bottom.

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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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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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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2024

In June, fast fashion giant PrettyLittleThing deactivated some customers’ accounts due to their ‘unusual high returns activity’ Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter to send back the entire order.

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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

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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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The retail entrepreneur demanded the fast fashion giant appoint him as CEO in an open letter this week among other requests as a solution to what he termed a “leadership crisis” driven by the retailer’s “incompetence”. “These are important facts that need to be taken into account and carefully considered by the board.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

They head a growing list of retail brands which have already announced actions to end or reduce sales in Russia, including Swedish fast-fashion company H&M, online apparel store Asos, and tech giant Apple. Russia accounted for about 4 per cent of H&M’s sales during the last quarter, making it the group’s sixth-largest market.

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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

JULY 24, 2022

The other report shared that fast fashion brand Shein’s largest consumer group is Gen Z women motivated by price and online shopping. Young people consistently buy fast fashion on platforms like Galaxy and Depop but they’re also re-selling it successfully on those apps.

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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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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Asos is ramping up its test-and-react model, which now accounts for 10% of own-brand sales and will be doubled to 20% in the next fiscal year. We worry about ourselves,” he stated. “Today is Vinted , tomorrow there will be something else, there will always be new formulas.”

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We all know those great Aussies fashion start-up stories, those household names who cut their teeth in the city markets,” John said. The potential for Inkse in Australia is great, our research shows a significant number of Aussies are looking for help to start a fashion business.

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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

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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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

We are also committed to being honest and frank about our progress, so that we can be held accountable and to provide clear and evidence based information to our customers. IR: There has been a lot of criticism of fast fashion brands lately in terms of their lack of sustainability credentials.

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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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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These days it’s not just performance, but also sustainability, so this search always includes yarns that are recycled, or materials that are robust and help to reduce the fast fashion cycle. AC: SA1NT as a group went through some tough times during Covid-19, with distribution slowing and retail accounts closing.

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2024

The fast-fashion brand, whose parent Inditex reports quarterly results on Wednesday, is investing in new ways to engage shoppers as analysts expect sales to grow less strongly after an extraordinary post-pandemic surge.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Robert Moore, CEO of leather goods and accessories brand Mon, said that the brand saw 100 per cent growth in November compared to the month prior, and that Black Friday and Cyber Monday accounted for over 40 per cent of monthly sales. It did so to raise awareness around waste, and over-consumerism caused by the rampant fast-fashion industry.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Sustainability has become a top priority for investors and consumers concerned about the looming climate crisis – and the fashion industry, one of the leading creators of global emissions, is increasingly focused on portraying its green cred.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The fast fashion company saw the highest year-over-year growth in downloads of any retailer’s app globally, and also drove the most sessions. For example, if an app is missing key features available on the desktop experience, that can disrupt the whole journey and cost conversions. Mobile Retailing Requires a ‘Mindset Shift’.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (or Fashion Act) would apply to global apparel and footwear retailers and manufacturers with annual revenues of more than US$100 million that do business in New York.

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