I was given a Kate Spade handbag once. It was linked to the brand’s first fragrance launch and the press kit came wrapped up in a beautiful tote bag package. Having at first assumed it was one of those not-quite-so-good promotional specials, my realisation that it was a real high-end bag practically had me hyper-ventilating.…
Target Corp is building on its swimsuit campaign of a year ago and has turned to Barbie to help it reach women of different body shapes ands ethnicities.
Competition in the purely fashion e-tail sector is heating up but omnichannel retailers are also upping their game. Which means today’s news from Zalando (pureplay) and Target Corp (omnichannel) makes interesting reading. Basically, Zalando is powering ahead, investing in expansion, and has the rise of m-commerce to thank, while Target is going for hell-for-leather into…
The importance of Chinese tourist spending to retail around the world has become even clearer with China’s Ministry of Commerce saying over 120m of its citizens travelled abroad last year, 12% more than in 2014. And Chinese President Xi Jinping thinks the number will reach 500m by 2020.
I’m not normally one to comment on the issue of ‘skinny’ models. In a world where obesity is huge problem, it’s always seemed to be a relatively small problem. Also, I understand the fashion industry need for models to be almost-neutral, shapeless clothes horses to show off the clothes. Plus, I realise that the causes…
What’s the big question we want the bosses over at Kering to answer? Yes, that’s right: Just what kind of impact is the Alessandro Michele factor having on Gucci sales? The company has just reported its Q4 and full-year results and given that there was real Michele-driven product in the stores for Q4 (rather than…
If you’re not yet convinced about the impact women are having on sales for sports brands, then Puma’s latest results and other big news should convince you. Puma already has Rihanna as a creative director and today confirmed that Kylie Jenner has signed up to front a campaign too (despite her brother-in-law Kanye West insisting…
The Chinese luxury consumer is changing with a number of factors coming together to drive this, according to the Bain & Company’s 2015 China Luxury Market Study. Last year, Chinese consumers from the mainland continued to buy luxury products but they bought them abroad as currency issues in places like Japan and Europe made travel very…
The bad news continues for Prada but it does have some developments to crow about with its smaller Miu Miu brand continuing to power ahead. The Italian giant released its full-year results yesterday and they didn’t make happy reading. Sales rose an anaemic 1% to €3.55bn having risen only 1% in 2014 too. You have…
We may have seen nearly two decades in which denim has been a key fashion product category but we’ve also seen a similar period in which jeans giant Levi-Strauss has struggled. So are Levi’s fortunes still heading in the opposite direction to the denim sector itself? Hmmm. It would appear so on the surface. But maybe…
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