Only a year ago, everyone had this funny idea that ‘wearable tech’ would be all about dresses with LEDs in them, weird and wacky clothes that would look very futuristic (but wouldn’t actually do much) and jackets that could, well… switch your oven on. What they didn’t get is that to appeal to women in…
Was the holiday season the washout for US retailers that many had feared? Yes, and no. Some retailers did just fine thanks while others… well, let’s look at Gap Inc.
The pre-fall collections have confirmed one thing – (almost) anything goes. That means that when it comes to length, there’s something for everyone and the mini is as big news as midi, maxi and everything in-between. So what’s key about the new minis? Well, what’s worn with them is as important as the skirts/dresses themselves.…
This is it, the moment retail changes forever. The tablet revolution is ending and smartphones are now the top driver of sales and e-traffic for US retail companies. Tablets didn’t have it their way for long (the iPad only launched in April 2010) but their days on top have gone. Who says so? The State…
I’ve been a journalist for… well, more years than I care to own up to. And I’ve been a specifically online fashion-meets-retail journalist since 1999. At that point I seem to remember reporting on M&S and Gap turning in record profits, riding high, expanding fast, could-do-no-wrong etc. Not long after though it all seemed to…
It wasn’t only UK retailers that had a tough Christmas. In the US, retail giant Macy’s has announced almost 5,000 job cuts and almost 40 store closures so it can make savings of around $400m after the holiday season was, well… miserable.
Gucci’s SS16 ad campaign offers up few surprises given the new direction in which Alessandro Michele is taking the label. It’s a celebration of quirkiness, geekiness and youth – with perhaps just too much of a focus on excessively skinny models. Not that any of that is a criticism (well, the skinny bit is, but…
You can always rely on Prada to do something different every season and its ad campaigns are a good example of this. The company has moved away from the powerful silhouettes and clear, clean colours of its very product-focused AW15 campaign. This time the look is more laidback with the product feeling as though it’s…
Fitbit’s a market leader in wearable tech via its fitness tracking bands so its entry into the growing smartwatch sector should mean good news, right? Wrong! The company’s shares actually fell as much as a massive 18% yesterday after the company announced its first full-colour smartwatch. So what was that all about? Investors obviously panicked…
Yesterday we heard how retail champion Next disappointed on Christmas trading. So what about can-do-no-wrong John Lewis? All I can say is “wow”. Actually that’s not all I can say, but you get the point. In one of the most difficult and volatile Christmas trading periods for years, the company really came through with no…
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