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Game on: How H&M is bringing fast fashion to the metaverse

Inside Retail

Fast fashion brand H&M recently launched Loooptopia, a Roblox game focused on creating, trading and recycling digital fashion items. These are some common factors that motivate players to continuously return to achieve milestones. However, it is also one of the most successful fashion brands in the world.

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New Fast Fashion Powerhouse: Shein Teams Up with Forever 21

Retail TouchPoints

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. has accused China of committing genocide and using forced labor in its repression of Muslim Uyghurs.

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Windsor Fashions to ‘Capitalize on Return to Normalcy’ with 150 New Locations by 2023

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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 velocity of our business has increased substantially since the first of the year,” said Leon Zekaria, CEO of Windsor in a statement.

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Closing the Billion-Dollar Gap in Returns Waste

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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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Vestiaire Collective’s fast-fashion ban: clever or counterproductive?

Inside Retail

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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Fast fashion retailers crank up fees to deter repeat online returners

Retail Gazette

A host of major fast fashion players, including Zara and Asos, are cracking down on serial returners who shop online by reducing promoted items or introducing fees for items sent back. The research was shown to fashion business leaders at a meeting last week held by the British Retail Consortium.

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As spending dips, can fashion rentals help Asos return to profit?

Inside Retail

Jose Antonio Ramos Calamonte, Asos’ CEO, has said he is confident the company will be able to return to sustainable profit and cash generation in the second half of this year and beyond. The post As spending dips, can fashion rentals help Asos return to profit? appeared first on Inside Retail.

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