Adidas, walking for sustainability
In previous articles, we saw how companies are transforming the fashion business into a more sustainable ecosystem as new generations demand…
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2019 Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers by Total Retail
Total Retail announced the 2019 top 100 Omnichannel Retailers ranking that reveals the list of publicly traded retailers and brands…
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Macy´s to launch new Story concept stores across the US
A retail love story: Macy´s embraces ephemeral experiences as part of their value proposition According to Coresight Research, in the…
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A few words with See Rose Go founders
See Rose Go founders, Erin Cavanaugh and Yi Zhou, have over 40 years combined global fashion industry experience including premium brands,…
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Mass-market fashion retailers
Extending the review of luxury organizations, niche players from the long tail in fashion and sustainable brands, it´s time to…
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What if sustainability starts in your closet?
Reviewing a list of hot topics and trends from 2015 onwards, fashion technology and sustainability are amongst the most popular ones. As…
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Luxury and Fashion Corporations
by Alfonso Segura The Fashion Luxury Industry, like other industries, has seen the rise of big corporations such as LVMH or…
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Circular Economy in Fashion
Millennials are driving companies to sustainable practices even if their business model is based on volume, low margins. New generations demand…
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A few words with Nextail Founder and CEO
Joaquin Villalba is the CEO and co-founder of Nextail, a smart platform for retail merchandising. A retail industry veteran, Joaquin…
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Fashion Connect: Bonprix Omnichannel concept
If you think about what retailers are “reinventing” the fashion retail business and also leading the omnichannel era, you will…
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The Fashion Pyramid of brands
by Alfonso Segura Many fashion retailers define their strategy starting from their value proposition and key positioning levers (assortment, price,…
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The future of fashion store formats
The future of Fashion Retail – New concept stores: finding inspiration in the Grocery industry In my previous job as strategy…
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A few words with a Retail expert and founder of Wemuse
Iván Abad Iglesias lives in Barcelona with his family, he is 40 years old and has more than 15 years…
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Nordstrom reinvents retail stores
The role of the store is evolving and going beyond sales transactions (See a list of stores with the best…
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Nike, the new high-end fashion brand
The fashion industry nature stresses the balance sheet, very sensitive between days of payment (days of payables) and collection period…
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Zozosuit, 3D Sizing and AI to improve customization in Fashion
What if the question “what is your size” doesn´t make sense any more? If people can scan their bodies, their…
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Apparel Sourcing Trends
Global volatility is the new normal and companies in all industries have to adapt and track external factors such as…
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Fashion Lab, the creativity Mecca
When I decided to start this blog, a couple of years ago, the main objective was to link art and…
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Headquarters, cities and talent
Headquarters relocation and global competition for talent In The New Fashion Retail Paradigm, I introduced the latest trends impacting the…
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Fashion politics
Politics comes from the word Polis (City in Greek), that means “affairs of the cities”. Historically, we can consider three…
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Benetton revamps its store format and customer experience
United colors of Benetton renews its store concept with a new flasghip store in Padua, Italy. With a completely revamped hi-tech…
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H&M embraces Fashtech
H&M announced in March 2018, during its quarterly results, a huge problem: $4.3 Billion in unsold clothes. There are many…
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Awarded Top 100 best retail blogs to Follow in 2018
The Fashion Retailer: Awarded Top 100 Retail Blog In March 2017, there was a conference at IESE on Fashion and Luxury…
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Amazon Fashion: The Omnichannel Fashion Retail Revolution is on
Deep analysis of Amazon Fashion Business: performance insights and challenges to compete in the apparel industry When Amazon started selling…
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Innovative Customer Experience in NYC
Best customer experience in retail Customer Experience matters and today more than ever before. But many companies are too big…
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A few words with Jungle Scout´s Founder and CEO
A few words with Greg Mercer, CEO and Founder of Jungle Scout: Amazon Product Finder & Research Tool. While writing…
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Sears Goes Bankrupt
“The King is dead, long live the King?” Large retailers are celebrating the new american retail market share redistribution but many…
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Bonobos. Fit for every man
Bonobos launches a new extended sizing line to include bigger/taller men, continuing their natural customer-centric business approach focused on better-fitting…
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A few words with LPP´s RFID Expert
A Few words with Alexander Yashin, Operations RFID expert at LPP Alexander Yashin is 31 years old, Russian, master degree…
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Amazon Fashion Pop-Up Store
Step by step, Amazon is building its Fashion business with the first “Amazon Fashion” Pop-up Store in Europe. I guess many others…
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Virtual Training: building a Digital Workforce at Walmart
The World is rapidly evolving and the new environment requirements (industry, economy, new business models, analytics, digital platforms, uberization…) oblige…
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The New Fashion Retail Paradigm
While reading the latest Monocle´s report on Global Retail: Let´s talk shops, I decided it was the right time to…
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Nike´s new retail approach: curated stores
Nike recently opened its first new concept store: Nike by Melrose, in Melrose Avenue (LA). The retail approach is brand…
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Amazon Storefronts
The Curated Hyper-Segmentation era is here The Long Tail illustrates how traditional business based on Blockbuster, built under massive media,…
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3D Knitting by Uniqlo
Uniqlo recently presented its latest innovation in manufacturing: 3D Knit. Some weeks ago, I posted 3D knitting or printing in fashion:…
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Retail Game Changers 2018
Every industry has its main players, but also disruptors, innovators, niche players that find a different business model, innovate in…
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Ministry of Supply, Technology Apparel
Fashtech, or Fashion Technology, is a reality. Businesses, enabled by technology, have changed the way fashion retailers design, source, move, stock,…
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Top triathlon brands for Running
Following the series about best brands for triathlon, we introduce sport #3: Running. Unlike cycling, running is cheap, and probably…
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Top triathlon brands for Cycling
Following the series about best brands for triathlon, we introduce sport #2: Cycling. This is probably the most expensive sport…
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Top Triathlon brands for Swimming
According to Forbes, Sport Industry is expected to reach $73.5 billion by 2019 in the US. “Body cult” is dominating…
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Fashion Co-Creation: As-a-Service Liquid Design Model
Liquidity, everything is getting liquid. Bauman described our modern life as “liquid modernity“, where change is happening faster than ever.…
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A few words with Wado founders
A few moths ago, I published an article about the long tail effect in fashion retail and how niche brands…
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The Fashtech Ecosystem
Fashion Technology: Innovation in Fashion Retail The objective of the Fashion 4.0 or Fashtech series was to simply describe what…
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Internet of Things (IoT) in Fashion Retail
This is the last post in a series about Fashion 4.0 in The Fashion Retailer blog: IoT and Fashion. In…
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Blockchain in Fashion Retail
This is the 4th post about Fashion Technology or Fashtech in The Fashion Retailer. If Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and…
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3D Printing in Fashion Retail
This is the 3rd post about Fashion Technology or Fashtech for The Fashion Retailer: 3D Printing (or Knitting) for Fahion…
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A few words with Privalia´s Global Production Director
Oriol Puig is the Global Production Director at Privalia. With a degree in Business Administration and Certified in Digital Marketing…
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H&M uses Artificial Intelligence to optimize the assortment
Fashtech, phygital, omnichannel, hybrid retail…I´m sure that sociolinguistics are happy to think about new words to describe Fashion 4.0 and…
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AR and VR in Fashion Retail
This is my second post about Fashion 4.0 or Fashtech for The Fashion Retailer: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in…
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Artificial Intelligence in Fashion Retail
Fashion Retail is adapting it´s business model at the pace of digitalization. As Darwin said, it is the most adaptable…