5 Technologies Transforming Retail in 2018

“The biggest upside to technology in fashion will be the ability to offer consistency, and being able to personalise the customer’s shopping patterns,” said Robert Burke, chief executive of retail consultancy firm Robert Burke Associates. Indeed, fashioncompanies that effectively deploy the right technologies …

Latin America boasts a colourful deck of beloved, local magazines that continue to persuade loyal readers to buy fashion and luxury, despite turbulent times for print …. A previous version of this article misstated that Daniela Pizzeta is the marketing manager for Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers.

With the insights gleaned from our survey, interviews with fashion industry executives and experts and research throughout the year, we have identified ten major trends that we expect to shape the fashion industry in 2018. These ten trends fall into three main categories: the global economy, consumer shifts …

He subsequently launched a namesake label during London Fashion Week in 2003. … In 2011, Jones was recruited by Louis Vuitton to design its men’s collection, taking charge of one of the fastest growing sections of the global fashion … Editor’s Note: This article was revised on January 17, 2018.

GENEVA, Switzerland — Nearly three years after Richemont SA merged Net-a-Porter with Italian rival Yoox SpA, the Swiss luxury conglomerate is doubling down on its commitment to the fashion e-commerce leader. Richemont, already the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group’s largest shareholder, has made a public …

PARIS, France — You cannot fault Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing for not being consistent. He inhabits his own bubble — a flashy, catchy, unabashedly glamorous one — and creates Balmain’s collections accordingly. The ingredients are well known and well established at this point, and for …

Within a fashion industry that touts itself as celebratory of difference, diversity, and inclusion, Black design talent consistently remains, at best, marginalised and all too often plagued by systemic employment discrimination. Let me be clear: the established, mainstream fashion design community does not …

Burberry Group Plc on Wednesday trumpeted its creative collaborations with the likes of model Cara Delevingne and Chinese-Canadian actor Kris Wu. There was one tie-up missing though: there was no news on its new head designer. Add in holiday sales growth that missed analyst consensus …

For more insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the global fashion industry, download the report here. LONDON, United Kingdom— After making yachting history in 2005, becoming the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe, Dame Ellen MacArthur turned her attention to …