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RetailStockX Report Affirms Resale Market Acceleration
The apparel and footwear resale market is seeing record-setting growth during the pandemic. Sites like thredUP and Poshmark have experienced a surge...
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RetailBrooks Brothers Bankruptcy Leads List Of More Fashion Retail Troubles
The retail world was rocked by more bankruptcy news on Wednesday (July 8), as Brooks Brothers officially announced its long-rumored bankruptcy and...
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RetailNew Fashion Startup Bets Its Future On Off-Price Luxury
It’s hard to find a retail fashion category that’s reliably successful these days. Brick-and-mortar discounters like T.J. Maxx are thriving despite social...
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RetailKanye West Collaborates With Gap On YEEZY Apparel Line
To bring apparel to consumers in a new YEEZY Gap line, Kayne West is collaborating with Gap through a partnership unveiled on...
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RetailAdidas Sales Rebound In China With Return To Growth
After lockdown restrictions were removed, Adidas’ China sales have bounced back faster than anticipated, fostering hopes that the brand can start to...
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RetailExpress Inc. Net Sales Drop 53 Pct Amid Pandemic
As it took “decisive actions” to maintain liquidity, Express Inc. reported “continued momentum” with its The EXPRESSway Forward long-term strategy, as a...
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RetailAmerican Eagle’s Digital Demand Jumps 33 Pct In Q1
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.’s digital demand accelerated in the first quarter, powered by brand health and formidable shopper engagement. Management reported that...
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RetailStitch Fix Announces Layoffs of 1,400 California Stylists
As it looks to hire employees in lower-cost states, Stitch Fix Inc. told its approximately 1,400 California-based stylists that they would be...
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RetailSummer 2020’s New Winning Accessory
The history of American fashion trends is bedecked with some strange entries. The summer of love in 1969 saw hippies storm Bethel,...
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RetailHigh-Fashion Market Continues Its Digital Shift
Shopping for high-fashion apparel continues to change under the pressure of the pandemic. Runways and star-studded front rows are moving to the...
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RetailRoss Stores Begins Reopening After Reporting Sales Drop
Amid the ongoing spread of the pandemic throughout the country, Ross Stores, Inc. reported total Q1 sales of $1.8 billion compared to $3.8...
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RetailReturned Merchandise Now Faces Quarantine
People who travel to other states during the COVID-19 pandemic are not alone in facing quarantine. Manny Chirico, the CEO of PVH,...
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RetailApparel Brand Approaches D2C With A Purpose
Simon Sinek, the business guru who has the third most popular TED Talk of all time, once wrote: “People don’t buy what...
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RetailVogue, Amazon Launch New Offering To Help Designers
For many, fashion has taken a back seat as much of the nation’s workforce is doing their jobs at home – in sweats....
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RetailNo Fitting Rooms? There’s An App For That
Post-pandemic fashion retail is starting to take shape. It’s just going to be a little tougher to try things on. Most of...
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RetailGarment Factories Reeling As Importers Stop Orders Among Weak Sales
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a rift in the relationship between apparel manufacturers and retailers, resulting in lost profits and canceled payments...
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RetailOnline Apparel Catches Fire
After hitting a skid from the beginning to the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, online fashion sales have caught fire. A sweep...
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InternationalCoronavirus Affects Millions Of Garment Makers In Bangladesh
The coronavirus outbreak has affected virtually all aspects of the economy, including the fashion industry, which has been grappling with how to...
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RetailRetailers Cancel $1.5B In Bangladesh Clothing Orders Amid Coronavirus
With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting demand, European and American buyers have called off roughly $1.5 billion of Bangladesh clothing orders. Bangladesh Garment...
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Subscription CommerceStitch Fix Shares Nosedive Following Missed Q2 Forecast
The online personal styling service Stitch Fix saw its shares plummet more than 30 percent on Tuesday (March 10) after the startup’s...
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RetailLacoste Apparel Firm Looks To Expand Its Brand Family
After experiencing a stretch of formidable growth, the Swiss family behind Lacoste, the apparel firm, is looking for acquisitions to bolster its...
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RetaileCommerce Fashion Seller Zalando Pivots To Luxury Apparel
Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, is making an ambitious foray into the €38bn luxury clothing market. The company plans to double...
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EarningsThe RealReal Tops $1B In GMV In 2019
As its gross merchandise volume (GMV) topped $1 billion for 2019, The RealReal Inc. reported a contribution profit per order of $19.72 and buyer...
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RetailAdore Me: Giving Lingerie A High-Tech Touch
While Victoria’s Secret struggles as the lingerie industry goes increasingly omnichannel, a hyper customer focus and an obsession with tech has helped...
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RetailTracksmith: Taking DTC Running From Heartbreak Hill To The Global Market
Bostonians take their running seriously. Boston is home to the world’s “statement race” — the Boston Marathon. There was a time when...
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Today In DataInnovative Approaches To Unattended Retail And Apparel Resale
Consumers are interested in unattended commerce – and not only soda and candy from vending machines. They are looking to purchase all sorts of...
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RetailFabletics Backs Brick-and-Mortar Growth With OmniSuite Platform
To create a frictionless commerce experience across channels, Fabletics, which was co-founded by Kate Hudson, is bolstering its physical presence with the...
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RetailNike Web Store Sells Out Of Kobe Bryant Merchandise
Nike’s online store has sold out of all of its Kobe Bryant-related merchandise, according to numerous reports on Tuesday (Jan. 28). Demand...
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RetailWhy Plus-Sized Fashion Doesn’t Have A Future
The fact that women’s fashion sizing is less than inclusive is not exactly a new issue. The average female shopper in the U.S....
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RetailExpress To Shutter 100 Stores To Save $80M Per Year
By closing 100 stores in the next two years, Express aims to save around $80 million annually over the next three years,...
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RetailFiserv: What The 2019 Holiday Shopping Data Says About 2020 Spend
’Tis the season for … looking back at 2019 holiday sales trends, and figuring out what they mean for payments and commerce...
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RetailBeyoncé Relaunches Ivy Park With Adidas Collaboration
With her new adidas x Ivy Park activewear collection, which gets its start online and in Adidas stores at midnight, Adidas is...
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RetailASOS Debuts Augmented Reality Online Shopping Tool
Augmented reality (AR) can now be a factor in one of the most traditional, physical aspects of clothes shopping: trying the items...
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RetailGap To Keep Old Navy In-House
Iconic modern retailer Gap officially stated this week that they will keep the Old Navy brand and will not spin it off...
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RetailH&M Customers Can Buy Now, Pay Later With Klarna
H&M customers will be able to shop now and pay later with a new payment option. According to a press release, the...
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RetailAs Amazon Re-Enters High Fashion, New eChallenges Abound
It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to...
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RetailWhy The Road To Retail Innovation Often Runs Through Apparel
When it comes to retail innovation, you can usually count on consumers’ constant need for clothes to help drive new trends. At...
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RetailHow AI Will Decide What You Wear
At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. The fashion industry made decisions on its...
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RetailWhy Rent The Runway Wants To Become The Amazon Prime Of Retail
A decade ago, the concept of building a retail operation around shopping in other people’s closets was something of a hard sell....
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RetailHow TikTok ‘eGirls’ Helped Create A Multi-Million-Dollar Fashion Brand
If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market,...
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RetailAnalyst Sees $40B Market Cap For Lululemon
Cowen believes Lululemon could be the next Nike, as it raised its price target on the stock to $250. “Assuming LULU can...
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RetailHow ‘Circular Sourcing’ Powers Renewable Retail
There are plenty of firms in the shoes and apparel sector that are “going green” to some extent. But new shoe startup...
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RetailUniqlo’s Quiet Retail Robot Revolution
In the life of any brand, a pivot – or even a series of pivots – is normal. Times change, tastes expand...
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RetailInnovating The Stink Out Of Athletic Wear
The problem with most athletic wear is that no matter how well it works, no matter how comfortable it is and no...
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Security & FraudJustice Department, SEC Investigating Under Armour
Baltimore-based Under Armour is being probed over its accounting practices by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department...
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RetailSock Subscriptions To Simplify Office Outfit Coordination
When Southern Scholar Socks Founder Kevin Wohlman started working full-time after college, he noticed that almost everyone in the office had something in common....
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RetailDoes Destination Maternity Chain Bankruptcy Signal Larger Trends?
Another one seems ready to bite the dust. Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. 21), the latest...
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RetailPUMA To Capitalize On eSports Trend With Cloud9 Partnership
PUMA has announced that it is signing a multi-year deal with eSports brand Cloud9 to make clothing for gamers in the same...
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RetailAthleisure 2.0 And Standing Out With (CBD) Innovation
Athleisure is a large and growing market. As of 2016, the industry generated around $46 billion in U.S. sales, and by next...
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RetailApparel, Embracing Digital, Drives Innovation In Retail
Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has...
