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: 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 Goes Tech: Digital Transformation in Fashion (4) – part 1/2
by Alfonso Segura Following with Fashion business strategy and operations insights from Fashion Goes Tech, my latest book on how…
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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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UncategorizedRetail and Luxury Outlook by Paco Underhill
Last March, Paco Underhill was guest speaker during the Retail and Luxury Outlook organized by RBC Capital Markets. By the…
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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: Digitization in Retail (2)
by Alfonso Segura The Merchandise Life Cycle In Fashion, products tend to have a short product lifecycle due to fast…
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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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How to deal with Planning Volatility in Fashion: New Marketing Merchandise Calendar
As described in Fashion Goes Tech, my latest book, retail hasn’t changed much in the last century but, over the…
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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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Who said Streetwear is dead
I enjoy analyzing patterns of motivation, connecting the dots that will impact on new trends. Where are we coming from?…
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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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The Future of Stores (1/2)
Nowadays, we are living the “Retail Apocalypse volume 2” (phenomenon that started around 2010 in USA) and this won’t be…
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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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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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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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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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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´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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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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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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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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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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Diversification and Segmentation in Fashion retail
by Alfonso Segura Many brands have evolved into groups that focus on different customer profiles. On the one hand, we…