Finnish design company Marimekko is set to launch a community-centred marketplace for the brand’s secondhand and vintage goods. Preparing to go live August 25, ‘Marimekko Pre-loved’ will allow for both peer-to-peer sales and B2C independent vendors in a bid to further the lifespan of its products. Sellers will be able to either redeem their...
Aug 5, 2022
Resale platform ThredUp has announced the appointment of Noelle Sadler as its chief marketing officer as it looks to sharpen its focus on encouraging secondhand shopping for younger generations. Reporting to ThredUp president Anthony Marino, Sadler joins the company as its first CMO in nearly five years and will apply her expertise in e-commerce...
Aug 4, 2022
Launched in late 2021 Galaxy, a marketplace for vintage and pre-loved fashion, has just secured 7 million dollars with funding coming from Floodgate, Snap Inc's Yellow Accelerator, Turner Novack’s Banana Capital, Homebrew and RGH Capital, among others. FashionUnited speaks to co-founders Danny Quick, former Head of Product at Beyoncé, and Nathan...
Jul 28, 2022
A second-hand fashion service by luxury e-tailer Mytheresa and resale platform Vestiaire Collective has been expanded to the US market following its initial launch in Europe last year. The tie-up allows Mytheresa customers to use a dedicated web interface to sell their second-hand items, the process of which is run by Vestiaire Collective....
Jul 27, 2022
French secondhand fashion retailer Verstiaire Collective is now offering secondhand fashion items to customers in South Korea via a new, fully localised service, which is the fourth of its kind, following successful launches in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. This move allows South Korean consumers to buy from the existing global catalog...
Luxury resale platform Rebag is expanding its product offering to include footwear and select apparel, alongside its luxury accessories for both men and women. In a statement, Rebag said that the introduction of shoes and clothes will “bring a diversified selection of the most coveted luxury styles on the resale market,” to its online platform...
Jul 20, 2022
Premium high street retailer Jigsaw has teamed up with luxury rental and re-sale platform My Wardrobe HQ to allow UK consumers the opportunity to rent or subscribe to its collections and sell any of their own pre-loved Jigsaw garments. ‘Jigsaw Forever’ is a fully circular rental, subscription and resale service from the retailer and marks the...
Jul 18, 2022
The Luxury Closet, the global resale marketplace for luxury and designer pre-owned fashion, has launched in the UK as part of the company’s ongoing expansion plans, which will see it launch in additional markets within Europe later in the year. The platform, founded by Kunal Kapoor in 2012 in Dubai, quickly became the largest luxury resale...
Jul 12, 2022
As the year progresses, there is one buzz word that keeps cropping up every month - greenwashing. Nobody wants to do it yet somebody is doing it as an industry watchdog recently revealed that fashion brands account for a quarter of all greenwashing complaints. At Shoptalk Europe 2022 at the beginning of the month, British designer Anya Hindmarch...
Jul 11, 2022
The resale market is booming. Sites like The RealReal, Grailed, and Vestiaire Collective are seeing consistent growth. Last month, FashionUnited reported the resale market could more than double by 2026. In January, Forbes even declared resale the "star of retail" in 2022. The resale economy has a 25 to 30 billion valuation, and McKinsey and...
Jun 30, 2022
French second-hand clothes platform Patatam has rebranded to Rediv after securing 12 million euros in funding. The investment will be used to accelerate the robotisation of Rediv’s logistic platforms and to expand globally with the launch of its first trials in the US and in Germany, Rediv said in a statement. In 2021, the company collected 2.5...
Jun 27, 2022
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is expanding a charitable second-hand fashion programme to all of its UK stores following a successful trial. The initiative sees Sainsbury’s donate any clothing products from its fashion brand Tu Clothing that are not fit for resale in store to Newlife, a UK charity that recycles, reprocesses, and reuses...
Jun 23, 2022
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