Alessandro Michele has moved the Gucci ad campaign roadshow from last season’s Berlin to Tokyo for AW16 with a continuation of the ultra-luxe-fashion-against-an-everyday-backdrop trend that’s still serving the brand well. But then Michele is all about continuity and evolution. Having shaken up the brand profile in order to break with the Frida Giannini era in…
For someone who writes a lot about retail, I don’t go into stores to shop (rather than observe) that often. The global store that the internet has become is more my thing, which does little for my bank balance and my waistline, but is refreshingly low on human interaction But whether I’m shopping online or…
There’s been a general trend among retailers recently to try to wean consumers off discount prices. Sometimes that has meant offering “everyday low prices” or it might have been about add-ons to make us all happier to pay higher prices. Either way, discounts are bad for so many reasons: they hurt margins, they make shoppers…
It may not have the same ring about it as Christmas, Mother’s Day or even Black Friday but Amazon Prime Day (let’s call it APD) has turned into the biggest thing to hit summertime shopping in, well, ever. The digital spending extravaganza saw some analysts estimating that Amazon saw sales close to $1bn on Tuesday,…
Yesterday gave us more news on just what M&S plans to do to turn around its clothing offer and an interesting update it certainly was. CEO Steve Rowe said at the AGM that “We have been giving our customers too many reasons not to shop with us. They tell us we have not got the…
Burberry’s in the news at the moment. No, wait, Burberry’s always in the news. Just more so at the moment. So only a couple of days after announcing Christopher Bailey would step down as CEO, the company issued a trading update this morning that the news media is jumping all over. Newspaper and websites largely…
Asos may be powering ahead despite the Brexit vote, as its latest sales figures showed today. But it doesn’t look like many of its UK fashion retail peers are, or does it? No, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). That said, it’s still early days and contradictory figures seem to be emerging too with…
Good news from Asos today. The pureplay fashion e-tailer saw total sales rising 30%, or 26% currency-neutral to £514.6m in the four months to June 30, a slight acceleration from a still-enviable 25% currency-neutral rise in the 10 months to the end of June. Yippee.
There was a time when a retailer launched a limited edition collection with a big name designer, advertised it then watched it (hopefully) sell out. But this is a new age and social media is where it’s at so the process of letting people know about your hot new collaboration is so much more complicated.…
Big change at Burberry next year with Christopher Bailey stepping back from his CEO role. But the man who helped turn the label into the luxury powerhouse it is will retain his chief creative officer role and gets the new title of president. The new CEO will be Marco Gobbetti, currently heading up LVMH’s luxury…
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