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Category: Fashion News
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Major Brand Deals, Acquisitions &, crosses 1 billion quarterly, and more.
Major Brand Deals, Acquisitions & Financial Moves this week: On has surpassed $1 billion in quarterly sales for the first time, driven by a 45% surge in apparel revenue; and Everlane, the direct-to-consumer brand built on ‘radical…
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Retailer Strategies and Collaborations, No 1 women s swimwear 10 years Target, and more.
Retailer Strategies and Collaborations this week: Target is leveraging its decade-long dominance in women’s swimwear to execute a broader merchandising strategy; and Target CEO Michael Fiddelke is reportedly bringing designer Isaac…
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Major Brand Deals and Acquisitions, Everlane s sale Shein, and more.
Major Brand Deals and Acquisitions this week: Shein is acquiring Everlane for approximately $100 million, a transaction that underscores the operational and; and WHP Global and G-III Apparel Group have structured a $925 million…
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Simkhai is building an AI storefront for shoppers who don’t know what to search
Simkhai is launching a separate AI-powered storefront, Simkhai.ai, built on Swap’s agentic commerce platform.
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Circular Fashion & Advanced Recycling, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Circular Fashion & Advanced Recycling this week: A consortium of Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at a; and Vinted’s €8B secondary share valuation cements its position as the…
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AI & Digital Tools for Design, Retail, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI & Digital Tools for Design, Retail & Operations this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and A PatSnap patent landscape analysis reveals a 20-year…
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Digital Product Passports & RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports & RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag has won the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award; and RAIN RFID adoption is moving from operational efficiency to regulatory compliance and…
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Brand Campaigns, Launches, and Retail, Burberry adopts Coach-style playbook, and more.
Brand Campaigns, Launches, and Retail Strategies this week: Burberry’s full-year earnings reveal a retail strategy shift towards dedicated in-store ‘category destinations’ like; and CeraVe, now the official skin- and hair-care partner of…
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Apparel Industry Economics: Tariffs, Chaos confusion Strait Hormuz, and more.
Apparel Industry Economics: Tariffs, Supply Chains, and Sourcing this week: Geopolitical instability around the Strait of Hormuz has halted commercial shipping for three days, creating a legal; and The 2025 US tariff regime, though later…
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Major Brand Deals, Acquisitions, and, Buying Marc Jacobs Details WHP G-III s 925M, and more.
Major Brand Deals, Acquisitions, and Financial Moves this week: WHP Global and G-III Apparel Group have structured a $925 million acquisition of Marc Jacobs from LVMH, creating a; and Everlane, the DTC brand built on ‘radical…