Poor working conditions. Inability to meet demand. Slow trend response. They’re all consequences of the move to low-cost manufacturing in factories many thousands miles from brands’ creative centres… until now, that is. Fashion has finally got what the car industry has known for decades – robots can make a difference, a BIG difference. A German…
Philip Green is treading boldly. His popular fashion retailer Topshop has announced a giant deal with Beyoncé to make athleisure and streetwear. But this is no ordinary collaboration – after all, when you hook up with one of the world’s most famous women, it to be something more than the kind of deal you’d do…
“Short-term turbulence” is what Billabong’s CEO is calling it. But investors saw it differently. The surfwear specialist gave a trading update and the news wasn’t good. So what did CEO Neil Fiske have to say (and bear in mind that with the share price plunging 23% it must have been pretty bad)?
Can Gap Inc get its namesake oldest child to ever match favourite sibling Old Navy’s storming performance? Will more sophisticated sister Banana Republic settle down and find her niche? And will little sis Athleta live up to her promise?
Just spotted a new NPD research report about the French sports shoe market, which made me remember that France may be going through tough times at the moment but let’s not forget, it’s a big, vibrant market. The fact is that sports footwear is on a roll in France, driven by the fashion market (44%…
One of the things people outside the fashion and beauty industries like to say about trends is that they’re “getting faster” these days. Hmmm. That’s one of those claims that always bugs me. The fact is, trends move as slowly as they always have done. Many of the most commercial silhouettes and key items today…
Nike wants women, lots of them. It certainly needs them if it’s going to achieve its aim of $11bn in women’s activewear sales by 2020 from the current $5.7bn. A little over-ambitious? Perhaps not. The segment grew 20% in Nike’s last financial year, double the rate of its men’s business. Christina Shi, head of Nike’s…
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