Sustainable Fashion case study: SHEIN. 2
Continuing with previous examples of sustainable initiatives, Shein established in 2021, a 629,150 sq. ft. Innovation Center, a destination for…
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Fashion Goes Tech: Supply Chain
by Alfonso Segura This article is the continuation of Planning in Fashion, where design meets operations, described in Fashion Goes Tech. According…
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Fashion Goes Tech: Digital Transformation in Fashion (4) – part 2/2
by Alfonso Segura It seems Covid-19 pandemic is ending but uncertainty is the new norm and adapting to it is…
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Fashion Industry Update Q4 2022
by Alfonso Segura I’ve been following RBC Capital Markets, specially their retail insights, for a while. During my last expert…
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A guide for potential double digit long-term growth in a mature environment
Pau Almar is an expert in fashion and apparel retailing that has held several senior management positions in Mango and…
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“Amazon and the growth of omnichannel retailing” with RBC x Miya Knights
RBC hosted a very interesting and insightful call last week with Retail Expert Miya Knights, to discuss Amazon and the…
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Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! For a 2022 in which life and brotherhood thrive! Thanks for reading and supporting…
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A few words with Jérôme Cabanès, Director at Centric Software
I met Jérôme 8 years ago, when PLM solutions were not a usual piece in the fashion retail tech ecosystem.…
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Fashion Goes Tech: Digitalization in retail (1)
by Alfonso Segura When I published Fashion Goes Tech, retail was suffering the worst crisis ever: covid-19. Empty streets, no…
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A few words with Maria Makarova, Co-Founder and Strategy Director of GFAIVE
TFR: What is GFAIVE? Maria Makarova: At its core, GFAIVE is a company focused on simplifying the life of fashion…
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Inditex Retail Space Turnaround: adapting to omnichannel
by Alfonso Segura According to RBC Capital Markets Insights, European General Retail Apparel space reductions easing. We perceive early signs…
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A few words with Nina Brener-Hellmund, founder of Cult Mia
A few words with Nina Brener-Hellmund, Founder & CEO of Cult Mia Nina Brener-Hellmund (Nina): Raised between Mexico, Texas, and…
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Retailtainment and Enterprise Ecosystems
Last week, I listened to an interesting podcast from Business of Fashion: 10 Retail Archetypes of the Future featuring Dough…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 (1)
Fashion as a Service (1/2) – Fashion Subscribtion Model Last month, I brought my DVD collection to a recycling drop…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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The Fashion Retail Long Tail
by Alfonso Segura Growth evolution: Dinosarus and aliens in Fashion Industry Long Tail The chart above shows the Compound Annual…
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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…