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2.2KInternationalCoronavirus 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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3.5KRetailRetailers 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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1.2KSubscription 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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1.9KRetailLacoste 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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1.7KRetaileCommerce 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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1.5KEarningsThe 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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2.6KRetailAdore 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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3.3KRetailTracksmith: 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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1.5KToday 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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2.0KRetailFabletics 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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3.1KRetailNike 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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2.9KRetailWhy 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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1.4KRetailExpress 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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7.1KRetailFiserv: 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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4.0KRetailBeyoncé 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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4.2KRetailASOS 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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2.0KRetailGap 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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5.0KRetailH&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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3.1KRetailAs 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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2.8KRetailWhy 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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6.6KRetailHow 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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4.6KRetailWhy 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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3.9KRetailHow 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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2.9KRetailAnalyst 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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2.9KRetailHow ‘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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4.6KRetailUniqlo’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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3.0KRetailInnovating 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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5.4KSecurity & 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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4.4KRetailSock 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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2.4KRetailDoes 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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2.4KRetailPUMA 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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3.2KRetailAthleisure 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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2.6KRetailApparel, 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...
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5.0KRetailUsing Data Tech To Create A Modern Lingerie Marketplace
For American women, there is plenty of friction built into the process of purchasing lingerie. Cost, sizing, styling, access and lack of...
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2.1KRetailStylitics Notches $15M In Series B Funding Round
With Series B funding, outfit-based shopping recommendation startup Stylitics has raised $15 million. The company was first known for a mobile app...
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4.7KRetailMastercard Teams Up With Fred Segal Sunset And MADE
Mastercard has teamed up with retailer Fred Segal Sunset and Made to sell limited-edition products that showcase female artists and designers, as...
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3.6KRetailCreating Customized Fashion Online, And (Nearly) On-Demand
For years, it was thought that apparel, if not an eCommerce-proof area of retail, was at least an eCommerce-resistant one. For ultra-casual...
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2.8KRetailAmazon Unveils Personal Shopping Service
To provide consumers with fashion advice, Amazon has debuted Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe. The new service offers recommendations for clothes as...
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2.8KRetailRethreading How Apparel Gets Made
The apparel industry is famous, or perhaps more appropriately infamous, for its high and growing level of environmental impact. Globally, consumers purchased 60...
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4.4KRetailPop-Up Retail Gets A Pop Of Fresh Energy
The best joy is often fleeting. So go some views of philosophy, religion and psychology. We at PYMNTS don’t mean to burden...
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2.7KRetailDressbarn To Close 53 Stores This Summer
Ascena Retail Group has announced it is closing 53 additional Dressbarn stores by the end of August. The news follows the May...
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3.3KRetailLululemon Brings Experiential Store To Chicago
As Lululemon looks to compete with Amazon and differentiate itself, the fitness apparel retailer is opening a massive store in Chicago. The...
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2.6KRetailThe RealReal Notches $300M In IPO
In its U.S. initial public offering (IPO), eCommerce luxury reseller The RealReal Inc. has notched $300 million. The company priced its shares...
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4.1KRetailWhen Clothing Shopping Is All About The Experience
In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these...
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1.5KRetailLululemon Introduces Personal Care Line
As it moves into new categories for growth, athletic apparel company Lululemon has started to sell products for personal care through eCommerce...
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2.4KRetailBringing The Great Outdoors Into The Average Buyer’s Price Range
While getting out into nature is highly recommended as a way to boost one’s physical health and mental state, it can be...
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2.5KArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Launches Image Search For Fashion
The Amazon Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas has been churning out technology news for the company. First, it was the announcement that...
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5.4KRetailRetail Clothing Sales Down 24 Percent, Worst Since ‘08
Clothing retailers like the Gap, Canada Goose and Abercrombie & Fitch are all experiencing troubling sales reports, the likes of which haven’t...
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2.1KRetailEntertainment Firms Tap Amazon For T-Shirt Printing
To help move their merchandise closer to the point of supply in their worldwide supply chains, entertainment firms are increasingly tapping a...
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3.1KRetailHow Trendy Butler Is Breaking Rules To Build A Better Subscription Box
Consumers signing up for any kind of subscription box these days knows the drill. They fill out a brief questionnaire establishing their...
