Abercrombie & Fitch’s Hollister brand has unveiled its Holiday 2015 campaign and it’s promising to be more than the usual overdose of snow and Christmas trees. So, what do we get instead? Cody Simpson, and his new Coast House bandmates Corey Harper and Adrian Cota. So far, so un-Christmasy. Does it get any more festive?…
John Lewis has confirmed that its Black Friday deals will be bigger than ever this year. What? Wasn’t it John Lewis that warned last January about Black Friday going too far? It certainly was but it seems the company’s new “We Love BF” stance is all about its Never Knowingly Undersold (NKU) commitment that sees…
As Paris struggles to get back to normal, questions are being asked about the prospects for the city’s fashion retail trade this holiday season. While some might say there are more important things to think about, surely the most important thing is to assert the virtue of normality? Analysts are looking to see whether key…
Is it just me or does it seem like there are an awful lot of Christmas scare stories in the press at the moment? Two of the scariest? , The Daily Express reported discount site Voucherbox.co.uk saying copycat websites – replicas of sites offering great deals – could steal a lot of money from discount-focused…
What’s gone wrong at Bebe? Quite a lot actually as it looks like product missteps, too many stores, markdown fever and a reorganisation process all combined in Q1 to make its results statement grim reading. The fashion retailer said Thursday that Q1 comps fell 4.1%, total sales fell 5.7% to $96.3m, the gross margin fell…
US households plan to spend an average of $576 on gifts this holiday season, up from $538 last year, business research group The Conference Board said late Thursday. Should you care? Well, yes, because the fact is that though shoppers expect to spend more, they also expect to get more for their money – a lot more. Those…
News emerged today that the Yoox and Outnet buying effort will be combined. But with both selling product from previous seasons to a similar set of customers and with the Italian Yoox.com easily dwarfing smaller Outnet.com, can it continue to exist in its current form? Of course, there are differences between the two as well…
Everyone knows by now that Yasmin Sewell has been named Fashion Director of Style.com as Condé Nast shifts it from a runway-meets-street-style editorial platform to an e-commerce powerhouse that lets readers buy the products they see in the publishing giant’s print editions. She started yesterday, reporting directly to Style.com president Franck Zayan. So, on the…
E-commerce giant Alibaba, the company that made Singles Day the world’s biggest shopping event, broke its own record today by beating last year’s full-day total in half the time. It was helped by some heavyweight celebrity endorsement, including Kevin Spacey also in his House of Cards President Frank Underwood persona. “Here at the White House, there…
Has the world gone mad? John Lewis that perfect example of the British department store is moving to Europe. OK, it’s heading to country-next-door The Netherlands so we’re not talking major cultural mash-up here. But it’s doing it via a deal with de Bijenkorf. Isn’t that the high-end Dutch department store owned by the same…
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