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What it takes for emerging designers to break into Australia’s fashion industry

Inside Retail

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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Fashion insiders weigh in on the uncertain future of Australian Fashion Week

Inside Retail

Fashion industry insiders are speculating about the future of Australian Fashion Week (AFW) following the news of IMG’s exit from the country’s premier fashion event. Since its debut in 1996, AFW has attempted to evolve alongside Australia’s dynamic fashion landscape.

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PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival is turning the runway into a spectator sport

Inside Retail

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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Designer Ena Pelly on why collaboration is the fashion industry’s “secret sauce”

Inside Retail

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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How Net-A-Porter is supporting the shift to sustainable fashion

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Considered a philosophy to provide lasting luxury fashion and lasting positive impact, the 10-year strategy includes four key areas in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to boost circular fashion practices — circular business, circular culture, planet positive, and people positive. .

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Why Shona Joy is filling in the missing piece of the circular fashion puzzle

Inside Retail

The term “circular fashion” serves as both a challenge to the fashion industry’s traditional model of take-make-waste and a solution to its environmental impact. But while luxury fashion houses are well-versed in repairs, discussions around circular fashion for premium brands are often limited to rental and resale marketplaces.

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What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

Inside Retail

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. The post What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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