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ThredUP Continues Anti-Fast Fashion Offensive with V-Day Campaign, adds Francesca’s to Resale Roster

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ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Nava Rose models one of her styles for the Dump Fast Fashion shop on ThredUP. “I Together with ThredUP, I’m committed to ghosting fast fashion.

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Study: Resale to Hit $47B by 2025, Giving Fast Fashion a Run for its Money

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While the pandemic had a chilling effect on apparel sales as a whole, the resale sector was blazing hot: it grew 29% in 2020 to capture $9 billion in U.S. Clark isn’t exaggerating: 33 million consumers bought secondhand apparel for the first time in 2020, according to the report.

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U.S. Apparel Resale to Double in Next Five Years, Fueled by Retailers and Brands

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And while North America remains the leader, resale is now clearly a global phenomenon: the worldwide secondhand apparel market is expected to grow 127% and hit $218 billion by 2026. “I The “thrifters” cohort is growing steadily, with 41% of consumers now saying that when they shop for apparel, secondhand venues are their first stop.

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Game on: How H&M is bringing fast fashion to the metaverse

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Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. It’s the latest apparel company to set up a virtual environment on the platform where players can style their avatar and run or scoot around Loooptopia districts collecting tokens. .

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New Fast Fashion Powerhouse: Shein Teams Up with Forever 21

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Shein and Forever 21 are joining forces in a deal that will allow Forever 21 to sell its youth-focused apparel to Shein’s 150 million online users. has accused China of committing genocide and using forced labor in its repression of Muslim Uyghurs.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

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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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Urban Outfitters Launches New Platform for Vintage and Upcycled Apparel

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Urban Outfitters has revamped its secondhand offerings into a new centralized Vintage + Remade hub, featuring a selection of vintage goods curated by the Urban team as well as used apparel that has been repaired and restored.

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