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Category: Fashion News
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Fashion Business Operations & Market, Where invest sell set, and more.
Fashion Business Operations & Market Pressures this week: Brand and retail executives at the Glossy E-Commerce Summit outlined a pragmatic, post-hype operational pivot; and Facing a K-shaped economic recovery and declining revenues…
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Major Brand Acquisitions & Strategy, Buying Marc Jacobs Details WHP G-III s 925M, and more.
Major Brand Acquisitions & Strategy Shifts this week: WHP Global and G-III Apparel Group are acquiring Marc Jacobs from LVMH in a $925 million deal structured as a joint; and Everlane, the DTC brand built on ‘radical transparency,’ is…
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Digital Signals, Digital Product Passports Explained Prepare Compliance, and more.
Digital Signals this week: The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime, beginning enforcement in 2026, will treat data as a border control; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation, enacted under the 2024 Ecodesign for…
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AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and Coats Digital, a provider of manufacturing software for the apparel industry…
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Fashion Signals, Fashion PLM Blog Tech Packs Costing Production Supply, and more.
Fashion Signals this week: The fashion industry’s AI adoption is bifurcating between proven commerce applications and experimental design; and Kobolabs.
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Retail and Sustainability Developments, Inditex Sales Rise 8 8 Q1 Signals Strong, and more.
Retail and Sustainability Developments this week: Inditex reported Q1 sales up 8.8% at constant currency to €8.
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Luxury Brand Expansions and, EXCLUSIVE Dior Reopens Saint-Tropez, and more.
Luxury Brand Expansions and Collaborations this week: Dior reopens its Saint-Tropez boutique with a new decor by creative director Jonathan Anderson and a full; and Piaget partners with Hong Kong-based pre-owned platform Wristcheck for a…
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AI and Tech Innovations in Fashion, EXCLUSIVE Launchmetrics Marks 10th, and more.
AI and Tech Innovations in Fashion and Retail this week: Launchmetrics is marking its 10th anniversary with three new generative AI-powered tools set to launch by early; and Sephora has partnered with Google to enable direct shopping…
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From Flawless to Real: The Visible Skin Texture Beauty Trend and Anti-Airbrushed Beauty 2026
Editorial Fashion Photography this week: The visible skin texture beauty trend is reshaping editorial fashion photography as brands and creators increasingly; and Aftershoot has completed its end-to-end post-processing platform…
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An AI overhaul at Macy’s is fueling the 168-year-old retailer’s turnaround
FashionTech this week: Macy’s AI-powered ‘Ask Macy’s’ shopping assistant, launched in March 2026, is driving a measurable turnaround; and Cartesian, an MIT spinout, uses machine learning on existing RFID reader data to map inventory…