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MARCH 18, 2024

Rntr has partnered with Australian fashion retailer Shona Joy to launch the first repair platform in Australia. Shona Joy will host a digital platform on its circular fashion website that encourages customers to extend the life of their items when it makes more sense than reselling them.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Norwegian family-owned watchmaker Urmaker Bjerke has opened Europe’s largest luxury watch house at Eger quarter in Promenaden, Oslo’s Fashion District. When we assumed management of the Promenaden portfolio, Eger was a struggling fashion-led department store. Bjerke House, set over 2,965 sq.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2024

Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, known for his animal-print designs loved by showbusiness stars, has died at the age of 83, his company said. Giorgio Armani said he always had “enormous respect” for Cavalli even though his vision of fashion could not have been more different.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2024

Australian Fashion Week is one of the most influential industry events in the Asia-Pacific region and its runaways have the power to launch careers and cement brands. The Australian fashion industry contributes $27 billion to the country’s domestic economy, $7.2

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2024

While many speculate about the reasons that established designers are partnering with the ultra-fast fashion company, it is apparent that Shein is using the program to separate itself from accusations that it trades in dupes and copycats. Shein’s investment in Shein X could serve to bolster its lead in the women’s clothing category.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

Australian fashion brands are gaining momentum in the UK and Europe, reflecting the growing diversity and dynamism of the global fashion industry. The post Smart logistics are enabling Australian fashion labels to thrive abroad appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hot on the heels of being named the Australian Fashion Laureates Emerging Designer of the Year, Gabriella Pereira this month opened the doors to the first physical retail concept this month for her label Beare Park. Inside Retail: What is the career legacy you want to have? IR: Have you always wanted to be a designer? GP: Interestingly, no.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Chinas Fashion Momentum Group (FMG) has opened its largest Urban Revivo store and the first Benlai store in Southeast Asia in the heart of the newly opened shopping precinct One Bangkok , signaling its bigger goal to increase its market share outside its home market. The group currently operates more than 400 physical stores worldwide.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This year’s Melbourne Fashion Week (MFW) student collections runway was held at The Lume – where the creativity was unconstrained, the designs were avant-garde and the emerging talent was front and centre. The Australian fashion industry is embracing sustainability and diversity more openly,” Tran said.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? Over the years Bitmoji has partnered with many fashion brands, including Ralph Lauren and Levis. Bitmoji, is a platform subsidiary of social media platform Snapchat, and there are over 2.7

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2024

With sustainability as the new industry gold standard and guiding principle, runway shows at Australian Fashion Week are starting to get a new look. In its third consecutive runway show at Australian Fashion Week, Anna Quan revealed its new partnership with Ebay Australia and styled archival pieces alongside the Resort ‘25 collection. “I

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Women fashion brand Alamour The Label will launch its first flagship store in Sydney in mid-month, marking its expansion from online to physical retail. Alamour The Label, founded in 2014, offers fashion designs targeting timeless elegance with feminine confidence.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Each year, more than 200,000 tonnes of clothing are discarded into Australian landfills , primarily influenced by the fast fashion model, according to a recent study by Professor Alice Payne from RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2024

PE Nation creative director Pip Edwards has stepped down from the role, but will maintain her directorship and shareholding in the fashion brand she co-founded in 2016. Earlier this year, PE Nation launched a new look as part of its rebranding initiative, at Australian Fashion Week.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Fashion retailer Country Road and Homie have teamed up to launch a range of past-season Country Road garments reimagined into new pieces. Homie is a streetwear label and social enterprise based in Melbourne that supports reuse and minimises waste in the fashion industry by upcycling clothing.

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JULY 23, 2024

Fashion label Ixiah has decided to temporarily close the business, citing economic challenges. In March, ethical fashion label Arnsdorf announced its closure. “This decision was not made lightly, as we have explored every possible avenue to continue our operations and serve our clients,” said the company.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

Avenue is FullBeauty’s fourth acquisition in just over a year, following its recent purchases of online fashion marketplace Dia, intimates brand Cuup, and size-inclusive fashion label Eloquii. The post City Chic sells Avenue to US retail group appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Australian minimalist fashion brand Status Anxiety has launched its first physical location in New York City’s Nolita. Will Sked founded Status Anxiety in 2004 after recognising a need in the market for simple, fashionable men’s wallets. It has been designed in a minimalist style, with white as the primary colour.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2024

Pringles and Crocs have collaborated to develop a footwear line, encouraging fans of either brand to express their passion for snacking and fashion. “We brought the flavour of this vibrant partnership to life – literally – with Pringles Croc-Tail Party and with a collection that allows fans to express their taste in snacks and fashion.”

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Inside Retail

MAY 14, 2024

Country Road ‘s Highpoint and Ballarat stores have secured a six-star Green Star Interiors rating from the Green Building Council of Australia, the first fashion retail shops to receive the rating. In addition, ocean plastic was used for fitting room hooks, while recycled plastic was used for the fixtures and tables.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

Whereas the brand’s previous ads focused on combating the stigma around periods, bladder leaks after pregnancy and other overlooked aspects of women’s health, the new campaign depicts fashionable twenty-something women in cool urban environments, hotel rooms and pools.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Philpott spoke to Inside Retail ahead of travelling to Miami Swim Week about the nomadic beginnings of his career in fashion retail. SP: The freedom of what I had experienced in Hawaii and my drive to make things happen led me to make a big decision and get into the fashion Industry. I decided to try and be a fashion sales rep.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Collaborating with brands at the forefront of fashion, innovation and craftsmanship like, Japanese clothing label Needles is how Reebok aims to return to its former place as the world’s number one sports brand – an accolade it took from Nike and its former owner Adidas in the 80’s through collaboration.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Before joining the team in 2023, Brennan was the general manager of fashion, at the Iconic. Since the age of six, it was clear to Brennan that she wanted to go into retail fashion buying. Anna Brennan is the general manager of women’s athleisurewear retailer Stylerunner. IR: How did you get to be the general manager at Stylerunner?

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