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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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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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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The Strategy behind Banky´s Merchandising
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge” as Bakunin said. Consumerism in the liquid era is fast, compulsive…
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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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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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The Fashion Retailer post #100
Huge thanks to everybody out there, TFR has reached the 100 post. The Fashion Retailer blog was founded in 2017…
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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…
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2019 Top 100 Omnichannel Retailers by Total Retail
Total Retail announced the 2019 top 100 Omnichannel Retailers ranking that reveals the list of publicly traded retailers and brands…
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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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What if sustainability starts in your closet?
Reviewing a list of hot topics and trends from 2015 onwards, fashion technology and sustainability are amongst the most popular ones. As…
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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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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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Fashion Connect: Bonprix Omnichannel concept
If you think about what retailers are “reinventing” the fashion retail business and also leading the omnichannel era, you will…
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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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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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Zozosuit, 3D Sizing and AI to improve customization in Fashion
What if the question “what is your size” doesn´t make sense any more? If people can scan their bodies, their…
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Headquarters, cities and talent
Headquarters relocation and global competition for talent In The New Fashion Retail Paradigm, I introduced the latest trends impacting the…
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Fashion politics
Politics comes from the word Polis (City in Greek), that means “affairs of the cities”. Historically, we can consider three…
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Amazon Fashion: The Omnichannel Fashion Retail Revolution is on
Deep analysis of Amazon Fashion Business: performance insights and challenges to compete in the apparel industry When Amazon started selling…
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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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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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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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Retail Game Changers 2018
Every industry has its main players, but also disruptors, innovators, niche players that find a different business model, innovate in…
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Top triathlon brands for Running
Following the series about best brands for triathlon, we introduce sport #3: Running. Unlike cycling, running is cheap, and probably…
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Top triathlon brands for Cycling
Following the series about best brands for triathlon, we introduce sport #2: Cycling. This is probably the most expensive sport…
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Top Triathlon brands for Swimming
According to Forbes, Sport Industry is expected to reach $73.5 billion by 2019 in the US. “Body cult” is dominating…
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The Customer Journey of a Millennial
Last October, I spent a few days in NYC exploring the retail environment: Mostly new concept stores. I did a…
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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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Sports and Fashion in the ironman era
Sports, Fashion and Society: A sociological approach Sport is as old as humanity. Cave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in…
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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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Why Retailers Should Consider Gamification to Boost Engagement
Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts. How retail is using it?
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Nike, not shoes but lifestyle
News on Fashion retail: Nike is leading the experience Economy with its app...
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Fashion Luxury elite meets at IESE
IESE Business School celebrated the 17th edition of Fashion and Luxury Goods industry meeting created by Professor Nueno seventeen years…