Apparel Brands Report 2021
A few weeks ago, I was guest speaker during RBC exclusive expert call. Richard Chamberlain and myself discussed about supply…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Capsule Collection in Fashion
From Capsule Wardrobe to Capsule Collection What is a Capsule Collection? According to Wikipedia, Capsule wardrobe is a term coined…
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The State of Global Fashion Retailers
The State of Global Fashion Retailers: analysis of the latest financial results of Inditex, H&M, Fast Retailing and GAP
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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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Fast Fashion, the art of liquidity
by Alfonso Segura The Fashion disruption Polish-born sociologist Zigmunt Bauman described our modern life as “liquid modernity“, where change is occurring…
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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…