Sustainable Fashion case study: SHEIN. 1
I hope you enjoyed the holidays! Vacations are a good time for reading, staying updated, or continuing our education. In…
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Sourcing Trends: How suppliers are adapting to volatility
by Alfonso Segura These are some notes from a zoom call organized this month by RBC Capital Markets with Reyhan…
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Fashion Goes Tech: The Rubik Model and Patagonia
Part II of Supply Chain in Fashion by Alfonso Segura The Rubik Model Today, retail is not only about the…
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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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Why nobody speaks about Inditex growth levers? (part 1)
The Fashion Retailer has not accepted promotional or guest post since it was created in 2017. If it mentions fashion…
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Inditex, the Bigger Picture by RBC
by Alfonso Segura A few years ago, in a conference in Barcelona, I described how growing global uncertainties were impacting…
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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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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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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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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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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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A few words with Bobbie Ttooulis, Marketing Director at GFS
Bobbie Ttooulis (BT) has more than 20 years of experience in senior roles with companies ranging from global market leaders…
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Retail, culture and brands ethics
When I was 16 years old, I didn’t know what to study at university. I spent some time soul-searching about…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nike, the new high-end fashion brand
The fashion industry nature stresses the balance sheet, very sensitive between days of payment (days of payables) and collection period…
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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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A few words with LPP´s RFID Expert
A Few words with Alexander Yashin, Operations RFID expert at LPP Alexander Yashin is 31 years old, Russian, master degree…
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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 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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A few words with a Master in Fashion Operations
When people hear about fashion, they expect a guru or a designer wearing funny clothing. This is part of it,…
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The Fashion Retail Value Chain Revolution
The Evolution of Supply Chain in the Fashion Industry Traditional Supply Chains are based on made-to-stock model, economies of scale…
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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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A few words with Brownie’s Head of Operations
Cecilia Cano is Operations Manager at Brownie. 31, degree in Business Administration, fitness fan, fashion retail and cooking passionate. Cecilia…
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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…