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Has the post-fast fashion era already begun? Five models reinventing profitability in textiles

The wave of insolvencies sweeping through French textile retail marks the end of an economic model based primarily on volume. This is characterised by mass store closures, with nearly 3,000 mid-market shops shutting in five years, and a cumulative increase in raw material costs estimated at over 70 percent. The model also relied on customer...

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Farfetch launches ‘pre-order’ to minimise fashion waste

Luxury e-commerce platform Farfetch is launching ‘pre-order’, a new service providing consumers with “early access” to the newest products throughout the season. ‘Pre-order’ aims to minimise fashion waste by only making what has been already sold and will initially launch with 10 brands, including Nanushka, Balenciaga, Khaite, Off-White, Palm...

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Pre-order open to online consumers

With this inexhaustibly changing fashion and consumer landscape, where retailers are being literally forced into coming up with ever new and superior ways to sell their clothes, purchasers are ever more being given exclusive access to collections, normally reserved for the tip of the fashion editrix pyramid. So, now retailers are giving...