How Cool is Sustainability in Fashion
FASHION SUSTAINABILITY IS THE NEW COOL Last week, during a talk with investors, suppliers and retailers, I was asked if…
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My New Book! FASHION GOES TECH
by Alfonso Segura I’m thrilled to announce the publication of my second book: Fashion Goes Tech: How Technology is empowering…
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Digital Fashion Platforms: Zara meets Netflix
Last week, Brooke Roberts-Islam wrote “Zara Meets Netflix” (Forbes). In others words, a business model based on “speed-to-market (fast-fashion), customer…
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A few words with Bobbie Ttooulis, Marketing Director at GFS
Bobbie Ttooulis (BT) has more than 20 years of experience in senior roles with companies ranging from global market leaders…
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Retail, culture and brands ethics
When I was 16 years old, I didn’t know what to study at university. I spent some time soul-searching about…
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2021: Fashion Industry Diagnosis and Action Plan
I recently wrote a post published in Fibre2Fashion with the following title “2021: Fashion Retail Diagnosis and Action Plan“. This…
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Global is boring, retail goes local
I usually prefer to mention niche players success stories because writing about big players making the right moves is not…
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Who said Streetwear is dead
I enjoy analyzing patterns of motivation, connecting the dots that will impact on new trends. Where are we coming from?…
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Influencer Brands
Digital era, the long tail, streetwear, social media, pure players, business platforms, influencers, liquid design… these are some of the…
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A few words with Morten Mogelmose, co-founder and CEO of Zliide
While I was writing how technology is impacting the retail business (book to be published in the coming 2-3 months),…
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Values-led collaborations in fashion
Coronavirus is impacting our democracies, our economies, our individual and social behaviors… When it comes to fashion, the virus is…
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A few words with Rene Fang, CEO of iStaging
A few words with Rene Fang, iStaging CEO Rene Fang (RF) is the Chief Executive Officer of iStaging Corp. Previously,…
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A few words with Tony Pinville and Célia Poncelin, Heuritech´s founder and CMO
Two years ago, TFR included Heuritech as one of the AI startups that were taking the world of fashion by…
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Urban Fashion Deserts?
Dollar Stores, Urban Deserts, Sustainability and Black Lives Matter I’ve been following Dollar Stores (Retail store that sells general merchandise, such…
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The Fashion of Cycling in Covid-19 era
by Alfonso Segura Some time ago, Emily Rookwood wrote Why So Many CEOs Are Taking Up Cycling (2014. Spear´s Magazine).…
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A few words with Shivang Desai and Chandralika Hazarika, founders of Bigthinx
A few words with Shivang Desai and Chandralika Hazarika, founders of Bigthinx Shivang Desai (SD) is Bigthinx CEO/CTO. Indian. 34…
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A few words with The Upside Founder and CEO
Lauryn Vaughn was born in small town British Columbia and eventually moved to Calgary with her mom, who was a…
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A few words with a Retail Management Expert
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about The Future of Stores (part 1). But stores are continuously evolving, from…
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A few words with VIPO Group CEO and Founder
William Bernal is the CEO and founder of VIPO Group, a new company that is changing the way people shop…
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The Future of Stores (1/2)
Nowadays, we are living the “Retail Apocalypse volume 2” (phenomenon that started around 2010 in USA) and this won’t be…
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COVID-19 Tracker for the Retail Industry
A few months ago, I interviewed AJ Mak, founder of Chain of Demand, a predictive analytics company that empowers the…
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Coronavirus and Fashion (2/2)
by Alfonso Segura This article is the continuation of Coronavirus and Fashion (1/2), an overview of the short term strategy…
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Tackling Fashion Industry’s Waste Problem
As mentioned in Fashion Retail Safari, New Retail is about new processes, new analytical capabilities, innovation, technology, new store formats,…
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Coronavirus and Fashion (1/2)
TFR latest post was a sociological perspective on Coronavirus, a virus that has the potential to destabilize the pillars of…
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Coronavirus, the biggest challenge to face
The aim of The Fashion Retailer blog has been to provide an updated overview of the creative and scientific approach…
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From product to experience
A few months ago, TFR commented on how a few companies are redefining the way we shop. I meant the…
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Fashion Technology Platforms
Platforms or conglomerates business models excel at optimizing resources and reduce financial risks (everything impact on financials such as over-stocking,…
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Hyper-customization
As introduced in the previous post Co-Design: Innovation at the intersection, hyper-consumption and hyper-individualism enabled by technology in the phygital…
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Co-Design: Innovation at the intersection
Last week, I met a friend that works at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), a well-known design education center in…
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Why Nike and Amazon are breaking up
As reported by Bloomberg (November 2019), Nike is breaking up with Amazon and will stop selling its apparel and sneakers…
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Body Scanning in Fashion
Last May, the startup 3DLOOK won the third edition of LVMH Innovation awards. The benefits of artificial intelligence and augmented…
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Redefining the way we shop and consume
Looking back to the latest retail news regarding sustainability and Fashion as a Service, and putting together the pieces of…
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Fashion Retail Safari on Amazon
Proud to announce my first publication: FASHION RETAIL SAFARI, a personally curated selection on industry trends, insights and conversations with…
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Fashion Retail Safari @innovatours
Last 25th of October, I was guest speaker at Innovatours at the Movistar Center in Barcelona. The event revolved around…
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New Retail: Curated Fashion Boutiques
Last March, I described how fashion retail will change its store format strategy. As an example, I explained how grocery…
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The Strategy behind Banky´s Merchandising
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge” as Bakunin said. Consumerism in the liquid era is fast, compulsive…
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Fashion pivots to Technology
A “Tech” exec to replace a “design” exec as Nike CEO… From Design to Technology When I started this blog…
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Legacy brands embrace fashion resale
Burberry announced recently a partnership with luxury resale site The RealReal, to promote circular economy in fashion and sustainability. Resale…
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Inditex 2018 Financial Results (2)
Following last post about Inditex 2018 financial results, the aim of this post is understanding the leading fashion retailer performance…
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A few words with Keonn co-founder and CEO
Ramir De Porrata-Doria is based in Barcelona. In 1992 he majored in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).…
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Inditex 2018 Financial Results (1)
Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers. It has eight retail formats or brands (Zara & Zara Home,…
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A few words with Chain of Demand founder
AJ Mak is 34 years old, raised in Hong Kong and Toronto, studied at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. …
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Resale Fashion goes mainstream
As Coresight Research commented on July, Recommerce and thrift shopping are going mainstream as consumers increasingly seek out value (both…
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Sustainable Jeans
ITMA, the world’s largest international textile and garment technology exhibition, took place in Barcelona in June 2019. One of Europe’s…
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2018 Retail Design Store of the Year
L’Occitane en Provence at 555 Fifth Avenue, New York City, is the Retail Design Institute’s 2018 Store of the Year.…
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Fashion Platforms and brands
On July, Custo Barcelona announced that will license its brand to Aeffe Group and move its activity to Italy. Custo…
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The Fashion Retailer post #100
Huge thanks to everybody out there, TFR has reached the 100 post. The Fashion Retailer blog was founded in 2017…
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Resale Fashion
The Resale Fashion business should be considered in relation to the landscape of Fashion as a Service (FaaS), or how…
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Fashion as a Service (2)
Continuing Fashion as a Service – subscription boxes model previous post, the following article comments on rental clothing. Millennials are prioritizing experiences…
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Fashion as a Service (1)
Fashion as a Service (1/2) – Fashion Subscribtion Model Last month, I brought my DVD collection to a recycling drop…