Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

Rntr has partnered with Australian fashion retailer Shona Joy to launch the first repair platform in Australia. Shona Joy will host a digital platform on its circular fashion website that encourages customers to extend the life of their items when it makes more sense than reselling them. Consumers bear the costs, which start at $10. “We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of Europe’s largest fashion companies will start collecting discarded clothes from April as part of a voluntary pilot scheme to manage textile waste that anticipates EU regulations expected to come into force in 2026. Reporting by Corina Pons; Editing by Charlie Devereux and Mark Potter, of Reuters.

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Inside Retail

MAY 20, 2024

Since his debut at Australian Fashion Week (AFW) in 2021, Jordan Gogos and his eponymous label Iordanes Spyridian Gogos have become a mainstay on the AFW calendar. His practice-led design ethos and commitment to creating a circular brand have earned him a name in the Australian fashion lexicon. “The

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2024

While established fashion brands are attempting to find solid ground in the current economic downturn, a new guard of Australian designers are trying to get their foot in the door. Fashion is an industry that worships breakthrough talent but gaining access to the necessary resources to innovate and disrupt is half the battle.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Norwegian family-owned watchmaker Urmaker Bjerke has opened Europe’s largest luxury watch house at Eger quarter in Promenaden, Oslo’s Fashion District. When we assumed management of the Promenaden portfolio, Eger was a struggling fashion-led department store. Bjerke House, set over 2,965 sq.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

Fashion has embraced technology at every turn from social media to virtual change rooms, yet consumers’ wardrobes have remained analogue. Its combination of in-app features allows users to catalogue, style and resell in a one-stop digital wardrobe available at users’ fingertips.

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2024

Around the world, fashion researchers, designers and artists are exploring the links between clothing, adornment and wellbeing. In Australia, there is a rise of designers and artists creating and fashioning painful Protectionist-era clothing on the runway and in the galleries. Wedding Stories from Queensland.

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

In the touristy Saint-Ouen flea market, not far from the Stade de France where athletes will compete in this summer’s Paris Olympics, police officers swarmed in at dawn on April 3 and shut down 11 stores selling counterfeit bags and shoes. Fake fashion is big business. billion euros (US$1.83

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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. Few could have predicted this scenario just one year ago.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

JCPenney has partnered with disabled writer and athlete Jamey Perry on a line of fashionable, functional apparel for women who use wheelchairs. 9 at the Runway of Dreams Fashion Revolution show at New York Fashion Week. 9 at the Runway of Dreams Fashion Revolution show at New York Fashion Week.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2024

Collaboration has long been at the heart of the fashion industry – with creative forces frequently teaming up to design something new and generate further brand heat. This shared fashion lens is what makes the design process run smoothly and ensures that the final collection feels authentic to both collaborators.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

Australian fashion brands are gaining momentum in the UK and Europe, reflecting the growing diversity and dynamism of the global fashion industry. But how can these brands optimise customer experience and delivery capabilities when they are based literally at the other end of the world?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) has unveiled its 2025 programme and alongside it a catchphrase that sums up its unique value proposition: Fashion as a spectator sport. Over the weekend, the Australian Fashion Week confirmed that it had secured funding from Destination NSW for AFW to go ahead in 2025.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

Mastani has been part of the Australian fashion landscape for six years but its Australian Fashion Week (AFW) runway debut cemented the brand as a force for change. Mastani has earned a reputation for designs that bridge cultural heritage and contemporary fashion to express the multifaceted modern female identity.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2024

But the recent wave of sustainable businesses closing their doors in Australia hints at a new and alarming trend. Slipper specialist Monte, fashion label Arnsdorf and blanket manufacturer Seljak Brand have all announced that they are closing down in the last few months.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

Enabled through shoppable ads — and therefore only available to subscribers of the streamers’ ad-supported tier — viewers will be able to purchase some of Emily’s enviable fashions and other products using Google’s visual search tool, Google Lens.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s no secret that consumers are still spending big on their pets even in a cost of living crisis – and the launch of luxury pet accessories brand Mon Petit Amour Manolo, which sells collars starting at $550, is proof of this. billion in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Paramount debuted a new technology last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) that allowed viewers to shop the entire broadcast, from the red carpet to the stage. With the Lens, viewers take a photo with their second-screen device, such as a smartphone or tablet, of a fashion or product on their “first” screens, like a TV or laptop.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2025

Sydney-based fashion brand One Mile was founded by Sammy Robinson in 2020 after a collaboration with another brand sparked the desire to have her own label. One Mile made its runway debut at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 with its Resort ’23 collections.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? Over the years Bitmoji has partnered with many fashion brands, including Ralph Lauren and Levis. There is no chatter about it on Reddit at all, just stony silence.”

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2025

Braintree Village has announced that global fashion house Coach, will be joining its retail line-up this Spring. Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941. The 2,260 sq ft store will be located opposite the South Entrance and will be the first standalone Coach store in the region.

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MAY 15, 2024

With sustainability as the new industry gold standard and guiding principle, runway shows at Australian Fashion Week are starting to get a new look. I’d like to show that being ‘fashionable’ isn’t inherently about having the ‘latest’ or ‘newest’ thing.” The best thing we can do is re-use and re-wear.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This year’s Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW) student collections runway was held at The Lume – where the creativity was unconstrained, the designs were avant-garde and the emerging talent was front and centre. The Australian fashion industry is embracing sustainability and diversity more openly,” Tran said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Women fashion brand Alamour The Label will launch its first flagship store in Sydney in mid-month, marking its expansion from online to physical retail. The store, located at 255C Oxford Street, has a Mediterranean-inspired design in nude and gold tones and offers a range of collections, including the Le Rouge and Honey lines.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2024

PE Nation creative director Pip Edwards has stepped down from the role, but will maintain her directorship and shareholding in the fashion brand she co-founded in 2016. Earlier this year, PE Nation launched a new look as part of its rebranding initiative, at Australian Fashion Week.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Before joining the team in 2023, Brennan was the general manager of fashion, at the Iconic. Since the age of six, it was clear to Brennan that she wanted to go into retail fashion buying. Commerce and Marketing at Sydney Uni), I was desperate for a role within the David Jones buying office, however, I lacked the experience.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Each year, more than 200,000 tonnes of clothing are discarded into Australian landfills , primarily influenced by the fast fashion model, according to a recent study by Professor Alice Payne from RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Philpott spoke to Inside Retail ahead of travelling to Miami Swim Week about the nomadic beginnings of his career in fashion retail. SP: The freedom of what I had experienced in Hawaii and my drive to make things happen led me to make a big decision and get into the fashion Industry. I decided to try and be a fashion sales rep.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Australian minimalist fashion brand Status Anxiety has launched its first physical location in New York City’s Nolita. The store, located at 248 Elizabeth Street, offers ethically sourced leather goods with a focus on biodegradable materials and environmental impact reduction.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Collaborating with brands at the forefront of fashion, innovation and craftsmanship like, Japanese clothing label Needles is how Reebok aims to return to its former place as the world’s number one sports brand – an accolade it took from Nike and its former owner Adidas in the 80’s through collaboration.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2024

Through its inclusive approach to branding, Sheila is reclaiming a narrative for women in a hyper-competitive fashion vertical. Barrins knew the name would resonate with the Australian market, or at least give them pause, while the international market was used to female names in fashion with household names like Zara and Celine.

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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

JULY 5, 2024

The numbers don’t lie At the end of 2021, then-managing director Simon Schofield told Inside Retail that Witchery was expanding the upper end of its range from a size 16 to a size 20 in response to consumer demand. Against this backdrop, why would size 18 and 20 women choose to spend their hard-earned money at Witchery?”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2024

Women’s fashion retailer City Chic will launch its first bridal line, First Impressions, in Australia via its website and select retail locations. The line, available in sizes 12 to 24, is aimed at fashion-forward curvaceous brides and prices between $299.95 and $499.95.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2024

French fashion house Chanel selected former Bottega Veneta design chief Matthieu Blazy as its next creative director, the company said on Thursday, after months of fevered speculation about the industry’s most coveted job. Sales at the French fashion house were up 16 per cent last year to nearly US$20 billion.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

Whereas the brand’s previous ads focused on combating the stigma around periods, bladder leaks after pregnancy and other overlooked aspects of women’s health, the new campaign depicts fashionable twenty-something women in cool urban environments, hotel rooms and pools.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2024

Country Road Group has launched an independent investigation into its handling of alleged sexual harassment and bullying of its staff, which the fashion retailer said it has zero tolerance for. Both executives previously worked at RM Williams with then-boss Raju Vuppalapati, who became CEO of Country Roud Group in 2021.

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