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MAY 30, 2023

Asos recently launched its first ever rental edit with UK-based rental marketplace, Hirestreet, as the struggling online fashion retailer attempts to stem its losses amid a decrease in consumer spending. The story so far The move into fashion rentals comes at a critical time for Asos. million (A$165.7

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JULY 4, 2024

Spanish fashion label Desigual is returning Down Under, partnering with The Iconic to launch its spring-summer collection. Janine Edwards, head of Edwards Imports, said at the time that her company planned to open a Desigual store in every Australian state, with Sydney to be the second location.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2025

Last year brought some challenges for the Australian fashion industry. High-profile brands like Dion Lee and Mosaic Brands closed their doors, and IMGs departure from Australian Fashion Week disrupted the sector. Fast fashions dominance and its impact Fast fashion has transformed retail dynamics.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In 2021, returns cost retailers a whopping $761 billion , or almost 17% of total U.S. This year the powerful combination of the special sale dates in Q4 (like Target, Amazon and Walmart holding October Black Friday events) and an increase in ecommerce holiday shopping means that this upward trend for returns will continue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2024

Reshop , a platform that provides instant refunds (not store credit) to shoppers returning items from participating retailers, has debuted with retailer partners including Steve Madden and Alo Yoga. With Reshop, customers can receive instant refunds — offering them greater flexibility, control and confidence to shop again right away.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

In 2014, fashion veteran Christopher Molnar decided to go after a white space he felt was being overlooked by the big fashion houses — premium essentials. Molnar grew up in the fashion business — his father helped launch Hugo Boss into North America in the ‘70s.

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MARCH 28, 2023

For many years, permissive returns policies have been the norm in ecommerce. For the post-holiday season just past, it’s estimated that the total value of returned goods will be around $171 billion. retailers were revisiting their returns policies as of late 2022. With numbers like these, it’s no wonder that most U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Rakuten has returned to New York Fashion Week and is offering its members exclusive items for pre-sale from the runway shows of designers Prabal Gurung , Sergio Hudson , Patricia Bonaldi ( PatBO ) and Rachel Scott ( Diotima ). The items will be revealed in the designers’ respective shows during NYFW, which kicks off Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

retail segment; the National Retail Federation (NRF) found the value of merchandise returned by consumers last year topped nearly $750 trillion. There is clearly a mounting and significant return waste problem. So why aren’t merchants processing these returns in efforts to recoup these massive losses? Take the U.S.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Australian fashion label Nique has entered voluntary administration, becoming the latest high-street brand to falter in a tumultuous economic environment. At least 15 staff will be affected by the administration, with many being casual employees. “In This story was originally published on Smart Company.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Westfield Knox in Victoria will open a new fashion retail precinct later this year, which will serve as home to popular brands including Uniqlo, JD Sports, Glue Store, and General Pants Co. “We’re The new fashion retail precinct is part of the last stage of Westfield Knox’s $355 million redevelopment plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2024

It’s not a mirage; Barneys is returning to NYC, but only temporarily. It’s a symmetrical turnaround: the Hourglass brand debuted at the famed department store two decades ago. The brand continued to live on through shop-in-shops at Saks Fifth Avenue and launched a diffusion line at Forever 21 (also owned by Authentic) last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Members also will have the option to buy the items at a discount. ModLux.Rent members can receive up to three items at a time and keep them as long as they want. Fashion subscription service Stitch Fix is also continuing to experience declines in its business.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

A two-day immersive Indigenous art, design and food festival will be hosted at the Overseas Passenger Terminal on Sydney’s The Rocks this weekend (July 1 – 2). Further reading: Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair returns, with streamed fashion shows The post National Indigenous Art Fair returns this weekend appeared first on Inside Retail.

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MARCH 27, 2024

British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is on the hunt for a new fashion designer, and the search will play out on screens across the UK in a new reality TV series set to arrive on ITV1 and ITVX this fall.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

In the world of fashion, it has been speculated that it could be possible that future designs on the runways of London, Milan, New York and Paris, could come from generative artificial intelligence programs. According to Sarah Neill, CEO and founder of Mys Tyler , the world of fashion has been ripe for disruption for a long time now.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Footwear and accessories brand Novo Shoes has returned to Canberra, opening two locations in Woden and Belconnen. ” The brand opened its first store at Warringah Mall in Sydney in 2002, and it now has outlets across Victoria, Queensland, SA, and WA, along with stores in New Zealand.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. Then complement fashion items with accessories, dance moves, music tracks and special effects to create different performances on the Loooptopia catwalk. million daily active Roblox players.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Australian fashion label Nique has entered voluntary administration, becoming the latest high-street brand to falter in a tumultuous economic environment. At least 15 staff will be affected by the administration, with many being casual employees. “In This story was originally published on Smart Company.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2023

Nike products will once again appear on store shelves and websites at DSW and Macy’s starting in fall 2023, according to executives on DSW and Macy’s earnings calls. The return of Nike in Q4 2023 could help improve revenue for Designer Brands, which saw a sales decline of 10.7% million in Q1 2023, which ended April 29, 2023.

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MAY 27, 2022

H&M Group is rolling out a pilot of several new tech-enabled in-store shopping solutions at COS stores in the U.S., including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ksubi’s return to operating stand-alone stores in Australia has been a long time coming. Almost four years later, the flagship location has been locked in at 113 King Street in Sydney and is due to open in March 2024, followed by an undisclosed Melbourne location. It was originally called Tsubi.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Those who said work-from-home was here to stay might be surprised to learn that we are witnessing a shift back to the office, with many organizations small and large instituting mandates for at least a partial return to office for the majority of their employees. in the first quarter to a mere 1.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

The deal may eventually include Shein shop-in-shops at some of Forever 21’s 540 brick-and-mortar stores, which are heavily concentrated in malls, as well as offering consumers the ability to return Shein items at Forever 21 locations.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Celebrities and international crowds have descended on the French capital, marking the fashion industry’s sweeping return as it rides a post-pandemic spending frenzy. ” A glimpse of Issey Miyake’s Spring-Summer 2023 women’s ready-to-wear collection show during Paris Fashion Week. Source: Reuters.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Just in time for New York Fashion Week, the iconic, now defunct luxury department store Barneys New York has made its return to fashion, albeit not in a way that many of the brand’s devotees would have imagined. Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 has released a limited-edition collection featuring the Barneys brand.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 5, 2025

Topshop has sparked fresh excitement among fans by hinting at a potential return to bricks-and-mortar retail on Londons iconic Oxford Street. The popular fashion retailer shared a video on Instagram featuring London Mayor Sadiq Khan calling for the brand to make a comeback to the famous shopping destination.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2023

It recently ran a pop-up at The Glen shopping centre in Melbourne, and has a long-term vision to making shopping more accessible for everyone. Emma Clegg: Molly and I met while studying to become occupational therapists (OT) at uni. IR: It couldn’t have been easy to start a fashion label, coming from an OT background.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Fashion brands Ann Taylor and Loft are headed back to Canada via a series of shop-in-shops at Hudson’s Bay stores across the country. Loft shop-in-shop at Hudson’s Bay in Canada. Image courtesy KnitWell Group) Since Sept.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2023

From romantic and intricate handmade gowns from South Australian label Paolo Sebastian, to ’70s-inspired silk and velvet suits from emerging designer and former musician Anna Cordell, to fun and affordable styles from family-favourite retailer Kmart, this year’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival had it all. Nungala Creative.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

-based operator of Forever 21 is preparing to close at least 200 of its approximately 350 stores in preparation for a potential bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports, citing people with knowledge of the matter. While a bankruptcy filing isnt certain to happen, its goal would be to find a buyer for Forever 21s remaining U.S.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 12, 2022

HOUSE flagship store is a physical manifestation of all that the fashion brand embodies. Reflecting this, the brief asked for a space that was flexible, with the ability to be reconfigured to host influencer/media dinner parties one night and returned to a retail space the next day, all while housing HQ offices upstairs. The steele.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Retail has introduced an app in India to sell Sheins fashion products through a licensing agreement, marking the Chinese brand’s return after a five-year ban due to diplomatic tensions. This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Woolworth Holdings’ sale of the David Jones department-store business has cleared the way for the brands of its Country Road Group division to return to the shelves of Myer. The post Country Road brands to return to Myer after David Jones separation appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The majority of products offered are priced at $10 or less, with some as low as $1. It’s early days for this experience, and we’ll continue to listen to customers as we refine and expand it in the weeks and months to come.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Footwear retailer Accent Group has opened a Nude Lucy store at Westfield Miranda in NSW, the group’s 800th store. The new store opening is part of the Accent Group’s plan to expand the footprint of all of its 15 brands as it sees a strong return on investment in brick-and-mortar retail.

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