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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Nike´s Direct Consumer Offense
by Alfonso Segura As I commented in a previous post at fashion retail news, Strategic Acquisitions: Walmart vs Amazon, M&A…
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Why is there a lack of excitement when Millennials visit Department Stores?
The Bird’s Cage Strategy is over. Millennials are running away from Department Stores. A day in the life of a…
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Is Data killing creativity in Fashion?
ANALYTICS IS KILLING CREATIVITY The Fashion Industry is evolving as retail landscape is also in reconstruction. Big data, machine learning…
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Strategic Acquisitions: Amazon vs Walmart
M&A is one of the main strategic options for companies that want to ensure their success in a very competitive…
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Niche fashion is the new black for investors
Who says retail is dead? It´s the retail apocalypse for many department stores or fashion retailers in USA that couldn´t…
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Uniqlo, the fashtech retailer, opens in Barcelona
Uniqlo, the fashtech (fashion technology) japanese retailer opens its first store in Barcelona, next Zara and H&M flagship stores. “For all…
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Amazon opens shop-in-shop inside Kohl´s deparment stores
Everybody is expecting to see pure players going offline with experimental point of sales or pop-up stores. This was the…
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Adidas Originals x Alexander Wang
Chatbot Retail: Adidas is COOL In US retail apocalypse, creativity and innovation is on top. New fashion retail business models,…
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Louis Vuitton, World of experiences
Louis Vuitton is one of the most prestigious luxury fashion houses in the World. In a previous post, I analysed…
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Everlane goes Offline
Everlane is a brand built upon an awareness of a new kind of consumer. The kind of person who cares…
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H&M invests in supply chain as fashion rivalry intensifies
Cost controls helped H&M (HMb.ST) to limit a drop in quarterly pretax profit but the fashion chain said it was…
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Le Tote, fashion based on customer data
Millennials are prioritizing experiences over tangible products. More than 75% of Millennials would choose to spend money on an experience…
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Future proofing: Inside LVMH’s under-the-radar beauty brand incubator
Do you know what Kendo is? Based in San Francisco, Kendo creates or acquires beauty brands and focuses on developing…
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Michael Kors to shutter up to 125 stores in next 2 years
Is Michael Kors a luxury brand any more? As I mentioned in a previous article about the luxury fashion pyramid ,…
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24 Sèvres, LVMH new digital experience
It´s time for the digital awakening of luxury brands. During the last decade, many market places took the lead of…
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Report: ‘Ultra-fast’ fashion players gain on Zara, H&M
First, Benetton´s garment dye, second Zara´s fast-fashion based on excellent operations. Now, it´s time to Ultra fast-fashion, and pure players…
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How Fashion Can Fight Amazon
TORONTO, Canada — Amazon recently posted its eighth straight quarter of growth. In fact, in the first quarter of 2017…
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Walmart sales skyrocket
Walmart sales skyrocket as a results of their acquisition strategy (e.g.ModCloth, Shoebuy and Moosejaw) lead by e-com CEO Marc Lore