US department stores are now among the biggest players in the e-tail sector but their profit margins are groaning under the pressure, according to analysts at credit Suisse. Their analysis, reported by Fortune magazine shows that department store websites are popular shopping destinations with around 14% of the revenue of the chains that anchor US malls now…
It’s official, shoppers spent more money online on fashion than on computer hardware for the first time last year. Well, American shoppers did, making fashion is now the biggest e-commerce category in the US, with the rise of m-commerce and free shipping deals helping to push the growth. Consumers bought $51.5bn of fashion goods online in 2015 compared to $49.9bn…
Beyoncé and Philip Green have given us a sneak preview (well, as sneaky as it’s possible to get when got a global publicity campaign behind it) of the new Beyoncé Ivy Park athleisure line. The big names in sports may be aggressively targeting the female consumer and female-focused brand like Lululemon may be enjoying a…
Kering has confirmed that Hedi Slimane is leaving his role as creative head of Saint Laurent with Anthony Vaccarello seen as the most likely successor. It’s possibly not the best day to confirm that kind of news. Waking up on April 1 I’m always sceptical about anything I read due to the large number of…
Only three weeks ago, it was assumed the owner of some of fashion’s favourite premium brands was set for a stock market listing. KKR-controlled SMCP, which owns Maje, Sandro and Claudie Pierlot, said it had begun the regulatory process that could lead to a listing at the same time as it announced a 44% rise…
Cara Delevingne didn’t retire from modelling for long did she? So far she’s popped up in a new Chanel eyewear campaign photographed by Karl Lagerfeld and now she’s pouting the face of the new Saint Laurent La Collection de Paris campaign.
Alessandro Michele is on a roll and so is the exotic, boho, gently retro signature style he embraces. It’s all to the fore in the Gucci campaign for pre-fall 16 with the by-now-familiar mad mash-up approach. It’s been refreshed by putting the models in an aviary-cum-hothouse-cum-library and includes everyone’s favourite on-trend birds, flamingos (as well…
Jane Birkin is one of those people who the fashion industry sees as one of its own but who manages to rise serenely above it all (except when objecting to cruelty to crocs involved in making the famous Hermès Birkin bag). But maybe it’s that too-cool-to-care approach that’s so appealing. Anyway, she’s just been unveiled at the new…
We’ll all be using augmented reality (AR) and Bitcoin to buy products by 2020. Really? Well, that’s what some people in a 1,000-plus-person survey of UK consumers seem to think.
Mango has released more of the images from its New Metallics monthly ultra-fast fashion micro collection and it’s something of a relief to see that the retailer isn’t expecting us to walk around in head-to-toe silver.
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