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Fashion Fatigue

15 Ways to Fix Shoppers’ Fashion Fatigue

We’ve all seen the headlines: “Low prices aren’t fun anymore – consumers have reached peak happiness with clothing purchases,” on CNBC and “The ‘retail apocalypse’ is an apparel apocalypse,” on Retail Dive.   After looking around the industry and studying the research and analyst reports, I find the conclusion unequivocal. American consumers are over their […]

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What’s Really Important About TheRealReal’s Partnership with Burberry

Burberry and the luxury resale marketplace The RealReal recently announced a partnership as a step forward toward a more conscientious, environmentally sound future. “Leading the way in creating a more circular economy for fashion is a key element of our Responsibility agenda,” Pam Batty, Burberry’s VP of corporate responsibility, said in a statement. “Through this […]

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LVMH Sees Luxury’s Future in Mission-Driven MadHappy

LVMH has a lock on the current luxury market. Its latest financial report testifies to that, with 16% revenue growth for the first nine months of 2019 to reach € 38.4 billion in revenue. That comes on top of 10% year-over-year growth in 2018 on €46.8 billion in sales. LVMH is the biggest and baddest […]

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Why Zero-Inventory Showrooms, like Bonobos and Nordstrom Local, Are Important in Retail’s Future

Retail is facing a paradigm shift, defined as “an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way.” I can’t think of a more appropriate description of what is happening in retail today. The old ways of doing retail clearly aren’t working. […]

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Cultural Relevance Is Key To Success In Marketing Luxury in China

Interview with Daniel Langer, Ph.D. and CEO of management consulting firm Equite, about the opportunities and pitfalls that luxury brands face marketing in China. He finds luxury strategies that work in the Western world don’t translate easily to China.

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