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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Fashion model Elle Macpherson will return to the catwalk at the Melbourne Fashion Festival for the first time in 16 years, in conjunction with PayPal. Macpherson will walk the PayPal Runway to start the Melbourne Fashion Festival’s premium runway series at the historic Royal Exhibition Building on March 4.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2024

Accessoriesare no longer taking a backseat in the fashion industry with the rise of “jewellery wardrobes”. Consumers are looking to build a personalised multi-brand jewellery collection that represents their personality, style and in some cases, values.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After failing to find a buyer, Dion Lee is set to leave the Australian fashion scene. Rosanna Iacono, fashion industry expert and CEO of strategy consultancy The Growth Activists, said that without apparent potential, a transaction is unlikely.

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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.

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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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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2024

Australian Fashion Week is one of the most influential industry events in the Asia-Pacific region and its runaways have the power to launch careers and cement brands. The Australian fashion industry contributes $27 billion to the country’s domestic economy, $7.2

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The annual Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW), hosted by The City Of Melbourne, is back and celebrating its 30th anniversary. “It It is quite the milestone, it does mean we’ve officially taken the designer crown of being the longest-running consumer fashion event in Australia,” Matthew Flinn, MFW senior manager, told Inside Retail.

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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. Collaborations allow fashion brands to offer a limited-edition and exclusive product offering to their dedicated consumers – with the opportunity to attract some new ones. “It

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

The term “circular fashion” serves as both a challenge to the fashion industry’s traditional model of take-make-waste and a solution to its environmental impact. But while luxury fashion houses are well-versed in repairs, discussions around circular fashion for premium brands are often limited to rental and resale marketplaces.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall. We want to grow, learn, and evolve alongside our customers’ shopping behaviours.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2024

Fake fashion is big business. The raid in the world’s fashion capital bears some similarity to clean-ups carried out by previous Olympic hosts like Beijing in 2008, which had mixed results, as well as London in 2012 and Rio in 2016. Counterfeit branded clothing alone is estimated to have cost companies in France 1.7

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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. The concept of spectating here is really about truly getting involved as a spectator You turn up and you’re part of it.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2024

Spanish retailer Mango is honing in on adaptable clothing to help customers adjust to wild swings in temperature as climate change makes fashion less seasonal, Chief Executive Toni Ruiz told Reuters. The post As climate change makes fashion less seasonal, Mango turns to adaptable clothing appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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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

JUNE 17, 2024

It’s no secret that the cost-of-living crisis and the cost-of-trading crisis are crippling the retail industry with both consumers and businesses feeling the crunch. 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

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss started Rent the Runway , they wanted to disrupt the fashion industry. As an example, Hyman pointed to the beauty industry, which she said has been fully disrupted, with upstarts like Glossier transforming the way they engage with consumers and develop products, Hyman explained. ” Hyman added.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a discussion with Sheena Butler-Young, senior correspondent for Business of Fashion , Ross recalled the origin story of her brand and how it stemmed from a personal need of hers. It is this deep understanding of how consumers want to be marketed to and the power of storytelling that Ross has achieved success.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 8, 2025

Fewer orders, bigger baskets Although total orders were down by 15% compared to 2023, the higher AOV demonstrated consumers willingness to spend more strategically and free shipping thresholds, loyalty programmes, and bundle offers encouraged shoppers to increase basket sizes.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

Suiting was once reserved for men’s formal attire and workwear but now the fashion industry is following consumer trends and doubling down on business casual. This corporate aesthetic that is bleeding into consumers’ everyday wear signals more than just a style fad.

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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. They’re more likely to donate the clothing they’re no longer wearing.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Sussan Group, the retail collective behind women’s fashion brands Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae, is incorporating “responsible fibres” into its supply chain and investing in futuristic pilot projects, such as making a compostable T-shirt, as it looks to increase consumer awareness of its sustainability initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

A Robust Portfolio of Fashion Brands With a range of offerings including formal fashion from Brooks Brothers, casual apparel for younger consumers from Aropostale, outdoor apparel and gear from Eddie Bauer and everyday fashion for the whole family from JCPenney, Catalyst Brands will boast expansive reach across multiple market and customer segments.

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Inside Retail

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. In its third consecutive runway show at Australian Fashion Week, Anna Quan revealed its new partnership with Ebay Australia and styled archival pieces alongside the Resort ‘25 collection. “I

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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. Things happen so quickly, that’s the exciting thrill of it.

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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. Will Sked founded Status Anxiety in 2004 after recognising a need in the market for simple, fashionable men’s wallets. It has been designed in a minimalist style, with white as the primary colour.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This seamless, integrated customer experience has redefined Australian consumers’ expectations, making it harder for traditional retailers to compete with their slower and more costly fulfilment methods. Shein: Dominating the fast-fashion market Shein has become a major player in Australian fashion, particularly among younger consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services.

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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

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

APRIL 29, 2024

Melbourne’s fashion capital Chadstone has been tapped as the second Australian location for New Balance’s UCC format store. By seamlessly blending physical and digital experiences, the UCC Chadstone store leans into the way local consumers like to shop while reinforcing our physical brand presence in Australia.”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

With global travel sales on the rise, the retail industry is looking for ways to cash in on consumers’ holidays abroad. Due to the current economic climate, many consumers have become more discerning with where they spend their money. Euro summer haul’ has now amassed 24.9 million posts and counting.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 9, 2025

Despite McKinsey stating the wider fashion industrys outlook for 2025 appears to be a continuation of the sluggishness seen in 2024: revenue growth is expected to stabilize in the low single digits, M&S defied these odds with a 1.9% increase in sales over the 13 weeks leading up to 28 December.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2024

On July 1 Australian women’s apparel retailer Witchery unveiled its rebrand – only for consumers to learn that it had reduced its plus-size offering from a size 20 to a size 18. Body image isn’t a trend But the decline in body diversity within the Australian fashion industry goes well beyond Witchery’s latest ‘Bold Awakening’.

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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. Bitmoji, is a platform subsidiary of social media platform Snapchat, and there are over 2.7

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. Price-sensitive products suffered a drop in demand as consumers struggled to shoulder the rising cost of tariff-stricken goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Nearly half ( 46% ) of consumers game to meet their desires for creation, imagination and self-expression , a 10% increase over 2023, according to research from Fandom. This represents a massive opportunity for brands to build a community of fans on Roblox and get the attention of consumers who spend time mostly in digital spaces.

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