Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

That growth rate looks likely to continue, with the overall secondhand market projected to double in the next five years, reaching $77 billion in annual sales by 2025. Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over Fast Fashion. It appears that much of that growth will come at the expense of fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2025

Even in an industry accustomed to a rapid pace of change like fashion manufacturing and retailing, AI is racing by like the Road Runner speeding past a desert mesa. Even in the mid-tier market take the example of leggings. That makes things both challenging and exciting for early AI adopters.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Despite hitting the market just six months ago, it’s already stocked in major retailers, including Myer, Surfstitch, The Iconic and Revolve, as well as dozens of specialty retailers across Australia and New Zealand. Sana’s success and how it’s using offcuts to make fast fashion more sustainable.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Barcelona, women stand at conveyor belts, manually sorting T-shirts, jeans and dresses from large bales of used clothing – a small step towards tackling Europe’s towering problem of discarded fashion. It did not respond to a request for comment on the suggestion it needed to do more.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the last week there has been a raft of updates from fashion retailers, from Primark to M&S. The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. New stores, particularly in overseas market, are propelling the retailer.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Temu: The fast-growing challenger A relative newcomer to the Australian market, Temu – whose parent is China’s PDD Holdings – has quickly attracted a large following. 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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I think that high fashion has priced itself out. Fifteen years ago, fast fashion dupes were crap, but today, fast fashion dupes have gone up in quality. The luxury market overall has been struggling: After exceeding a record 1.5 Higher prices for real items have been accompanied by higher quality for dupes.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors. Shein did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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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

APRIL 26, 2024

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. With fast fashion off the table for many, shoppers – and retail brands – are getting creative like locally owned, fashion re-sell business, a new favourite of mine, Love it Longer, on leafy Rathdowne Street in Carlton North, Victoria.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

With the marketplace model now driving Debenhams’ growth, Boohoo hopes this fresh approach can turn around not just Debenhams, but its other brands, including the host of struggling fast fashion brands which once were the group’s driving force Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing, and Boohoo Man. Will it work?

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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. Shein’s investment in Shein X could serve to bolster its lead in the women’s clothing category.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Of the world’s industries that profit from worker exploitation, the fashion industry is notorious , in part because of the sharp contrast between how fashion is made and how it is marketed. Well-known fast-fashion brands include H&M, Zara and Uniqlo. Out of sight, out of mind. Who is responsible?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The fashion industry is no longer just under-appreciated, it is in an undeclared war. What is it about fashion brands that make them the target of more greenwashing claims than just about any other industry? Do fashion labels make themselves easy targets by setting unrealistic goals and making outlandish claims?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products. Here are some of the overarching themes of the changing consumer sentiment that will shape the fashion industry’s journey ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Shoppers have been so eager to applaud sustainable apparel production that the eco-fashion industry faces concerns both in terms of greenwashing and stiff competition verging on saturation.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 26, 2021

Fast fashion retailer Windsor Fashions is planning to open 150 new stores over the next two years, adding to its current fleet of 230 locations across 42 states in the U.S. The retailer refers to its model as a “Nationalized Boutique,” with each store featuring its own assortment unique to its market.

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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

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. The ‘Attenborough’ effect.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

However, after several years of diminishing sales in an increasingly competitive fast-fashion market, rumors have been spreading about Forever 21 declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time. Basically, the competitive bar is now set a lot higher in fast fashion, and Forever 21 has had trouble getting over it.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

The value of luxury and premium fashion goods is often in their design, storytelling and product quality. But recently, fast-fashion brands including Zara, H&M, Mango, Urban Outfitters and Topshop have been testing limited-run premium collections in addition to their regular and frequent product drops.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

secondhand market is projected to double in the next five years, reaching $82 billion by 2026, according to ThredUP ’s 10 th annual Resale Report , conducted in partnership with GlobalData. Value is always in fashion when economic uncertainty is high.”. Retailers and Brands Take the Baton.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Etsy Inc said on Wednesday it would acquire Gen-Z focused fashion reseller Depop for $1.63 More young consumers are moving toward second-hand fashion options, conscious of the environment and carbon footprint of the clothing industry. billion, as the online seller looks to attract younger shoppers. Reporting by Nivedita Balu.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

Here, we speak with #6, Babyboo co-owner and managing director Will Conditsis, about balancing rapid growth and profitability and repositioning the brand from ‘fast-fashion’ to ‘premium’ He also shares the top profession al skill he would still like to develop.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Fast fashion platform Shein is expanding its resale program to Europe and the UK after debuting the peer-to-peer exchange in the U.S. Shein Exchange is available directly within the Shein app in markets where it has launched. in October 2022. Since the launch of Shein Exchange in the U.S., In 2023, more than 4.2 million new U.S.

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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

JUNE 28, 2023

Fast fashion has normalised using garments for short periods of time, and throwing them away when trends change, driving an unsustainable pattern of overproduction and overconsumption. It envisions that fast fashion will be out of fashion, and that economically profitable re-use and repair services will be widely available.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Ireland-based fast fashion retailer Primark is continuing its steady expansion in the U.S., The company’s most recent opening, its 13 th , took place in Philadelphia’s Fashion District in September 2021. The company’s most recent opening, its 13 th , took place in Philadelphia’s Fashion District in September 2021.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To a slow fashion apparel brand in rural Cambodia, Australia’s sophisticated fashion capital of Melbourne seems a world away – and not just geographically. Yet Dorsu, which positions itself as an ethical and sustainable clothing maker, has overcome geographic and socioeconomic barriers to establish itself in the Australian market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Melbourne-based e-commerce platform Airrobe launched three years ago with the mission to bring the circular economy into mainstream fashion. If you think about what the peer-to-peer re-commerce marketplace looks like today for fashion, largely, it hasn’t changed since eBay launched.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Pre-loved fashion is having its moment, and for good reason. It is still early days for the pre-loved fashion industry – competition is increasing but there is plenty of space for others to break through. Lessons from Pre-Loved Fashion Brands Many pre-loved fashion brands have become household names.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Digital fast fashion retailer Shein has acquired UK women’s retailer Missguided from Frasers Group. fast fashion brand Forever 21 ; those two brands recently announced plans for a co-branded line of men’s and women’s apparel that will be sold exclusively on Shein.

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