SAYE Launches Lignify: Turning Plant Waste into a New Generation of Sustainable Sneakers
I’m very pleased to share a major milestone in our commitment to sustainable materials. It has been almost two years…
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When Sustainability Meets Execution: How Saye Is Reinventing Its Strategy to Scale
Very happy to share my thoughts in this interview with Modaes (February 18th, 2026). It’s been almost 20 years working…
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A New Chapter: Building SAYE with Purpose and Passion
Wow, it’s been months since I last wrote, after several intense years during which I managed to write two books…
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Nike. What’s Up?!
A few days ago, BoF published an interesting article by Daniel-Yaw Miller about the situation of Nike. The multinational from…
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Conversation with Ian McGarrigle, by RBC Capital Markets
This feedback stems from a compelling conversation RBC Capital Markets engaged with Ian McGarrigle, Chairman of the World Retail Congress,…
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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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Thoughts on Zara
by Alfonso Segura A few months ago, many of us were surprised to see the best CEO of the decade…
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Fashion Retail: Supply Chain Trends
by Alfonso Segura It is a pleasure to publish my latest contribution in the RBC Capital Markets Expert Call, a…
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Physical Stores are back: key elements for success
I’m very excited to announce my latest collaboration with Drapers magazine, a leading authority on fashion retailing that has been…
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Fashion Goes Tech: Digitization in Retail (3)
A few months ago, TFR commented about the merchandise lifecycle and how retailers, specially apparel ones, deal with stock managament.…
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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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Fashion Retail Outlook: Expert Call with Alfonso Segura x RBC Capital Markets
I’m excited to have participated again to an expert call with Richard Chamberlain, Head of Consumer Discretionary research at RBC…
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A few words with Vadim Rogovskiy, 3DLOOK CEO
Vadim Rogovskiy is CEO and co-founder of 3DLOOK, the global leader in AI-first mobile body measuring and fit solutions. Vadim…
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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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In-Store Transformation
by Alfonso Segura Covid-19 restrictions are being eased while vaccination rates are rising (e.g. 76.8% of the population in Spain…
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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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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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The Fashion Retailer Tech Ecosystem is growing
by Alfonso Segura The Fashion Retailer‘s collaborations and network is growing! Since the blog was founded in 2017, we met,…
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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…
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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…