Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Footwear and accessories brand Novo Shoes has returned to Canberra, opening two locations in Woden and Belconnen. Six years after it left the market, the brand debuted its Woden store last month and will open its second location this Friday. The Spendless Shoes acquisition provided Novo with an additional 214 outlets across Australia.

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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. Nique also launched an upcycling program, asking customers to return their well-loved wardrobe items to the store for repurposing and resale.

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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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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ksubi’s return to operating stand-alone stores in Australia has been a long time coming. As an ode to its “spiritual roots” the brand will release the archival ‘BADDIES’ collection exclusively to the Australian market and the Beach House will carry further limited-run offerings to its guests.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

It’s been another year of record-breaking ecommerce sales combined with unprecedented snarls across shipping and inventory ecosystems, so it should come as no surprise that return rates for 2021 are expected to have gone through the roof. Getting at the Root of Apparel and Footwear Returns.

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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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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. Product that Delivers on its Promise.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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Retail TouchPoints

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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Modern Luxury Media’s ecosystem of 85+ brands across 22 markets includes Hampton’s Magazine , Ocean Drive and Aspen Magazine , reaching more than 16 million readers. Fashion subscription service Stitch Fix is also continuing to experience declines in its business.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2022

Zara’s decision to start charging for online returns this month has raised complex questions about why people send back such a high proportion of items they buy online, and what can be done about it. As of 4 May, the Spanish fashion brand has started charging customers around the world for returns sent back through the mail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

Last week, the retail industry was buzzing with the news that Victoria’s Secret’s fashion show is coming back. First introduced in 2004, the annual fashion show was put on hiatus in 2019 after the show reported its lowest-ever ratings in 2018. However, the impact of these marketing shifts remains to be seen.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fashion tech start-up Mys Tyler has secured more than $1 million in its seed funding round, with Mirvac Ventures, Antler Global and angel investor Brian Hartzer, former CEO of Westpac, backing the business. Mys Tyler stylists will work with the community to help women of all shapes, sizes and ethnicities meet and learn about fashion.

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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

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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The ‘secret sauce’ for Sheet Society is bringing the look, feel and shopping experience of clothes fashion to manchester and bedding. We saw a gap in the market for bedding that was an extension of your personal style, just like fashion. But founder Hayley Worley knows it will take real work to maintain the gains.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2022

Inside Retail : Cue is one of Australia’s longest-standing fashion brands and it has such a rich history. Upon arriving home and sensing a gap for youth-driven fashion in the market, he decided to capitalise on that and started printing The Beatles t-shirts for the group’s fan club in Australia.

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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. Paolo Sebastian. Nungala Creative.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New year, new you,” is a slightly hackneyed marketing trope, but it is still true that consumers are, in fact, looking to improve their lives at the beginning of the year. January is a unique moment for ecommerce retailers and brands to use inspiration to bring shoppers back for more than just returns and clearance items post-holiday.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. And now, brand marketing teams wonder if the holiday marketing calendar has been elongated too.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2023

What was out there in Australia was aimed towards the elderly, the really young, or it was hyper-medicalised and focused purely on functionality and not the fashion side of things. Why should people with disability not have the same opportunity that we do to express ourselves through fashion? Source: Supplied. EC: That was huge.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2023

“We believe, and we’ve seen this in economic uncertainties over time, that luxury tends to be very durable,” said Emily Essner, Chief Marketing Officer at Saks Fifth Avenue in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It also, of course, has an impact on how we think about marketing to them.” We put those two together.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With most items priced under A$200, the brand is seeking to elevate travel for the mass-market consumer. “Everyone travels now,” McGahan told Inside Retail. This year saw European tourism return to pre-Covid levels, and despite the cost-of-living crisis, McGahan believes spending on travel is here to stay.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2022

Luxury fashion house Hugo Boss has rolled out digital dressing room technology from Reactive Reality across its websites in Germany, the UK and France. Virtual try-on technology is fast becoming an ecommerce mainstay as retailers look to better serve customers and reduce returns, which weigh heavily on profits.

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Retail Focus

MAY 8, 2024

True Fit , the AI-driven platform that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced that, following its launch in Shopify at the end of 2023, it is now driving a 14% average GMV growth for fashion brands on the platform, giving rise to the next generation of scaling fashion retailers.

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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

MAY 30, 2024

Tapping into sub-cultures is how Reebok plans to avoid returning to its “stagnated” 90’s state. Just Beatnik it James Chan, head of marketing at Reebok, told Inside Retail , “Reebok Australia’s brand strategy centres on positioning as the leading irreverent sports brand.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

New York designer Jessica loses her luggage while returning to her hometown for the holidays. Image courtesy Walmart From furniture and holiday décor to the fashion of the entire series cast, almost everything in Add to Heart was sourced from Walmart , giving customers the opportunity to shop more than 330 products throughout the series. “We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To achieve this target, the Copenhagen-based company will increase investments in brand desirability and the store network with a refreshed marketing strategy and elevated in-store experience. The company aims to deliverer EBIT margin expansion and continue providing strong cash returns to shareholders. billion) for 2023.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The holy grail of any business is finding product/market fit, which venture capitalist Marc Andreessen defines simply as “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market”. Despite these facts, brands continue to ignore this sizable and profitable market. More than half (52.1 Its rationale?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

J Crew’s catalogue has long been a coveted fashion reference to timeless style and now the brand is ready to capitalise on its own lore. While few brands can be as self-referential as J Crew with an extensive back-catalogue that dates back to 1983, many fashion retailers continue the tradition of a print catalogue.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. A seamless returns experience is now a baseline expectation for customers,” explains Daly. The Shopify-backed company has more than 250 employees and oversees 2 million returns per month.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. A seamless returns experience is now a baseline expectation for customers,” explains Daly. The Shopify-backed company has more than 250 employees and oversees 2 million returns per month.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Better demand forecasting with AI Using AI algorithms to analyse historical sales data, seasonal trends and other market factors can help retailers predict future demand with higher accuracy. The aim is also to free up staff to focus on more creative tasks, such as predicting fashion trends based on the analysis that Delphine generates.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

The resale market is growing 11 times faster than traditional retail and is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, far eclipsing the predicted $40 billion market for fast fashion. . Levi’s marketers astutely recognized this trend during the pandemic and debuted Levi’s SecondHand in October 2020.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Iconic has launched a new branding campaign over a month after the online fashion retailer found itself in defence mode due to fraudulent transactions made via customers’ accounts. “And we’re still creating better ways today. “And we’re still creating better ways today.

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