RBC Expert Call. Spain Fashion Retail Market Outlook with Alfonso Segura
Continuing the series of conversations with RBC Capital Markets, a collaboration which began several years ago, this time revolves around…
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Luxury, a long term story
Many things can be highlighted about globalization and the internationalization of capitalism, but in the fashion sector, the multiplication of…
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Reasons To Be Cautious On Luxury (1)
I have always been interested in the luxury sector's business model, but also from its social and psychological perspective. Here,…
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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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Retail Trends, by Placer.ai
My collaboration with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) started a few years ago and this is an interesting interview about…
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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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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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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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Global is boring, retail goes local
I usually prefer to mention niche players success stories because writing about big players making the right moves is not…
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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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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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Urban Fashion Deserts?
Dollar Stores, Urban Deserts, Sustainability and Black Lives Matter I’ve been following Dollar Stores (Retail store that sells general merchandise, such…
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The Fashion of Cycling in Covid-19 era
by Alfonso Segura Some time ago, Emily Rookwood wrote Why So Many CEOs Are Taking Up Cycling (2014. Spear´s Magazine).…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fashion Platforms and brands
On July, Custo Barcelona announced that will license its brand to Aeffe Group and move its activity to Italy. Custo…
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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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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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Luxury and Fashion Corporations
by Alfonso Segura The Fashion Luxury Industry, like other industries, has seen the rise of big corporations such as LVMH or…
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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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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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Fashion Lab, the creativity Mecca
When I decided to start this blog, a couple of years ago, the main objective was to link art and…
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Bonobos. Fit for every man
Bonobos launches a new extended sizing line to include bigger/taller men, continuing their natural customer-centric business approach focused on better-fitting…
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Amazon Fashion Pop-Up Store
Step by step, Amazon is building its Fashion business with the first “Amazon Fashion” Pop-up Store in Europe. I guess many others…
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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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Amazon Storefronts
The Curated Hyper-Segmentation era is here The Long Tail illustrates how traditional business based on Blockbuster, built under massive media,…
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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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Niche fashion is the new black for investors
Who says retail is dead? It´s the retail apocalypse for many department stores or fashion retailers in USA that couldn´t…
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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 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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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…
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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…
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Maslow, evolution and Luxury Fashion
by Alfonso Segura Consultants like tables, diagrams and charts… Fashion is not a science (some might disagree…) but using this…