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JANUARY 2, 2025

Australian luxury fashion label Zimmermann has opened its first boutique in Beijing. The post Aussie fashion brand Zimmermann debuts in Beijing appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Located in Taikoo Li Sanlitun, the store spans 352sqm and marks the brands third outlet in China.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Ethical fashion label Arnsdorf has announced it will close down and has commenced a sale with markdowns to run out its inventory. The post Ethical fashion label Arnsdorf closes appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. “My energy is being directed to other places and it’s time to make space in my life for this.”

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JANUARY 21, 2025

The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) has named Kellie Hush as CEO of the Australian Fashion Week this year. Meanwhile, the AFC has also appointed Jacqui Brown as the head of operations and Zoe Davis as the head of strategic partnerships for the Australian Fashion Week.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Australian fashion label Nique has entered voluntary administration, becoming the latest high-street brand to falter in a tumultuous economic environment. The post Fashion label Nique enters voluntary administration appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. This story was originally published on Smart Company.

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MAY 23, 2024

Pandora is on a quest to be the world’s most desirable jewellery brand, not just the largest, but what’s fashion got to do with it? And its newest collection, Essence, debuted at the sold-out closing night runway at Australian Fashion Week (AFW), alongside on-site activations including a personalisation station.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After failing to find a buyer, Dion Lee is set to leave the Australian fashion scene. Rosanna Iacono, fashion industry expert and CEO of strategy consultancy The Growth Activists, said that without apparent potential, a transaction is unlikely.

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MAY 24, 2024

While established fashion brands are attempting to find solid ground in the current economic downturn, a new guard of Australian designers are trying to get their foot in the door. Fashion is an industry that worships breakthrough talent but gaining access to the necessary resources to innovate and disrupt is half the battle.

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MAY 20, 2024

Since his debut at Australian Fashion Week (AFW) in 2021, Jordan Gogos and his eponymous label Iordanes Spyridian Gogos have become a mainstay on the AFW calendar. His practice-led design ethos and commitment to creating a circular brand have earned him a name in the Australian fashion lexicon. “The

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Fashion model Elle Macpherson will return to the catwalk at the Melbourne Fashion Festival for the first time in 16 years, in conjunction with PayPal. Macpherson will walk the PayPal Runway to start the Melbourne Fashion Festival’s premium runway series at the historic Royal Exhibition Building on March 4.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’re thrilled to be launching this collaboration, pushing the boundaries of fashion while contributing to a local cause that truly matters.” The post Mambo, HoMie launch unisex circular fashion collab appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JULY 15, 2024

Affordable fashion has driven the increase in online spending over the past quarter despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, according to a report by Australia Post. Fashion & apparel led the growth in online purchases with a 19.1 per cent improvement, mainly driven by affordable fashion items. Approximately 5.7

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) has unveiled its 2025 programme and alongside it a catchphrase that sums up its unique value proposition: Fashion as a spectator sport. Over the weekend, the Australian Fashion Week confirmed that it had secured funding from Destination NSW for AFW to go ahead in 2025.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of Europe’s largest fashion companies will start collecting discarded clothes from April as part of a voluntary pilot scheme to manage textile waste that anticipates EU regulations expected to come into force in 2026. Reporting by Corina Pons; Editing by Charlie Devereux and Mark Potter, of Reuters.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Fashion has embraced technology at every turn from social media to virtual change rooms, yet consumers’ wardrobes have remained analogue. I wanted to build something to reshape our relationship with our wardrobes and rewire how we experience fashion,” she added.

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MAY 24, 2024

Around the world, fashion researchers, designers and artists are exploring the links between clothing, adornment and wellbeing. In Australia, there is a rise of designers and artists creating and fashioning painful Protectionist-era clothing on the runway and in the galleries. Wedding Stories from Queensland.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The annual Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW), hosted by The City Of Melbourne, is back and celebrating its 30th anniversary. “It It is quite the milestone, it does mean we’ve officially taken the designer crown of being the longest-running consumer fashion event in Australia,” Matthew Flinn, MFW senior manager, told Inside Retail.

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JULY 9, 2024

Fake fashion is big business. The raid in the world’s fashion capital bears some similarity to clean-ups carried out by previous Olympic hosts like Beijing in 2008, which had mixed results, as well as London in 2012 and Rio in 2016. Counterfeit branded clothing alone is estimated to have cost companies in France 1.7

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

The post Luxury label Portia & Scarlett sold to American fashion company appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. The label is present in 47 countries including Australia, the US and the UK, with a network of nearly 1000 stockists.

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MAY 15, 2024

Collaboration has long been at the heart of the fashion industry – with creative forces frequently teaming up to design something new and generate further brand heat. Collaborations allow fashion brands to offer a limited-edition and exclusive product offering to their dedicated consumers – with the opportunity to attract some new ones. “It

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MARCH 13, 2024

Spanish retailer Mango is honing in on adaptable clothing to help customers adjust to wild swings in temperature as climate change makes fashion less seasonal, Chief Executive Toni Ruiz told Reuters. The post As climate change makes fashion less seasonal, Mango turns to adaptable clothing appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JUNE 7, 2024

Marquee acquired fashion accessories and jewellery brand Colette by Colette Hayman in September 2020 and luxury fashion and accessories label The Daily Edited in December 2022.

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JULY 3, 2024

Luxury fashion retailer Harrolds is planning to relocate its stores in Sydney and Melbourne as part of the company’s ongoing transformation. The retailer will also offer “heavy” discounts for all clothing, footwear and accessories lines at its Sydney and Melbourne stores, starting Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In an Australian-first partnership, BlockTexx and Elk have teamed up to bring an innovative solution to bring end-of-life garments into the circular fashion economy. “I In the face of the large-scale problem of textile waste, BlockTexx is hoping that its partnership with Elk will guide and inspire the fashion industry towards circularity. “If

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MARCH 12, 2024

Zara is set to open its first Australian store to feature the fashion brand’s latest global Couture/Atelier design concept. The Spanish fast-fashion label will renovate its Burnside Village store in June with a reopening in the new guise scheduled for October.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Women’s fashion retailer City Chic will launch its first bridal line, First Impressions, in Australia via its website and select retail locations. The line, available in sizes 12 to 24, is aimed at fashion-forward curvaceous brides and prices between $299.95 and $499.95. I wanted each piece to feel sophisticated yet full of character.

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JUNE 17, 2024

Slipper specialist Monte, fashion label Arnsdorf and blanket manufacturer Seljak Brand have all announced that they are closing down in the last few months. The post Why slow fashion brands are closing hard and fast in the cost-of-trading crisis appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Rachel Leonard, editorial director of The Bridal Council and former fashion director of Condé Nast’s Brides , agreed that consumers today are seeking more bespoke bridal wear and adds that they want those services provided on a “faster turnaround” time. It has it all.”

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JULY 18, 2024

The fashion retailer – which sells more than 100 ‘trend-led’ apparel, footwear and accessories brands including Champion, Perfect Stranger, Tommy Jeans, Thrills, and Wrangler – forecasts annual group sales to rise 9.7 per cent from last year to $288.5 million.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

per cent while clothing, footwear and accessories fell 0.4 “The Taylor Swift-inspired boost in turnover for fashion and accessory retailers last month has proved to be temporary with an instant reversal this month,” said Ben Dorber, ABS head of retail statistics. Food sales went up 2.1 Department stores dipped 0.3

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MAY 10, 2024

The technology, where customers can access selected fashion options without paying a monthly charge, employs artificial intelligence to deliver customised apparel recommendations, allowing people to discover and shop from a store that is matched to their style and budget.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Sussan Group, the retail collective behind women’s fashion brands Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae, is incorporating “responsible fibres” into its supply chain and investing in futuristic pilot projects, such as making a compostable T-shirt, as it looks to increase consumer awareness of its sustainability initiatives.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Last month, American fashion label Kith expanded into the country, opening its largest flagship store in Seoul’s Seongsu neighbourhood with dedicated retail space, Sadelle’s restaurant and a sophisticated lounge area. French fashion house Chanel posted a 7 per cent increase in sales to US$1.2 Meanwhile, Louis Vuitton’s sales dropped 2.4

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APRIL 17, 2024

Under Armour has announced an expanded range of apparel, footwear, and accessories exclusively for the Australian market. The campaign – named ‘Live in UA’ – marks a pivotal shift in strategy and approach, representing a fusion of functionality and fashion, according to the brand.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Last month, American fashion label Kith expanded into the country, opening its largest flagship store in Seoul’s Seongsu neighbourhood with dedicated retail space, Sadelle’s restaurant and a sophisticated lounge area. French fashion house Chanel posted a 7 per cent increase in sales to US$1.2 Meanwhile, Louis Vuitton’s sales dropped 2.4

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Located at 35 Monmouth Street, the independent London-based fashion house is the latest brand to select the destination for its first-ever store, joining Covent Garden’s extensive roster of physical debuts.

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JANUARY 2, 2025

Sydney-based fashion brand One Mile was founded by Sammy Robinson in 2020 after a collaboration with another brand sparked the desire to have her own label. One Mile made its runway debut at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 with its Resort ’23 collections. Things happen so quickly, that’s the exciting thrill of it.

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