Oracle Retail Week Awards
The Oracle Retail Week Awards 2010 are now open for entries. The Awards are one of the largest events in retail and offers a platform to highlight the innovative, resilient and creative business ideas. The organisers recognise that this has been probably the most challenging time for retailers in over a decade, but is challenging…
LeJu at the Royal Academy of Arts
Jewellery label LeJu, will be sold at the Royal Academy of Arts from 23 January – 18 April 2010 to complement the Van Gogh exhibition. Known for its colourful, vegetable ivory jewels, three of LeJu’s designs will be available for purchase: The Bubble necklace, the Flor necklace, and Polo earrings. On the partnership LeJu’s Dutch-born…
Replay’s new online strategy
Italian fashion retailer Replay announced the launch of its new replay.it portal. Now online, Replay’s new e-platform is developed to promote its collections and online shop. The main aim of the new website is to offer more innovative and fast-access content to its unique users. Through video technology visitors are able to access clips that…
Agent Provocateur to eyes double expansion
British fashion lingerie label Agent Provocateur plans to double in size to almost 100 stores in the next three years under ambitious proposals drawn up by Kim Winser. Winser, the former CEO of Pringle and Aquascutum, is the new chairwoman of the lingerie retailer. Winser said high-class underwear was due a surge in growth, after…
Woolrich celebrates 180th anniversary
Celebrating its 180th Anniversary, iconic American outdoor clothing company Woolrich is creating a special collection consisting of 17 of the brand’s more historic models. Seeing an official launch within this year’s Fall/Winter season, two outerwear pieces from the line, The Stag Jacket and The Ranch Coat, can already be seen online (see image). Both blend…
Good orders at Textile Forum
There was an optimistic vibe at last week’s Textile Forum exhibition. The fashion fabric fair matched the record figure of the October 2009 show, with more visitors placing good orders as well as sampling. Overseas buyers were attracted to the show’s focus on stock lines as well as forward order fabrics. Large export orders went…
Asos unable to handle surge of bargain hunters
Asos’s online and mobile site’s were unable to cope with the immense surge of sale shoppers after a technical error, which left the online retailer unable to process orders placed on Sunday, December 28 for several hours. On one of the busiest days for shopping post Christmas, the online fashion giant sites struggled to keep…
Gift vouchers make for a lucrative Christmas
Vouchers and gifts cards are expected to reach 31.74 billion dollars this holiday season, according to the US National Retail Federation. Consumer spending will increase almost 10 percent from 163.16 dollars last year to 172.74 dollars, according to the survey, which also cites 62 percent of shoppers stating they would like to receive a gift…
Meadham Kirchhoff to quit label
London Fashion Week designers Meadham Kirchhoff are to fold their company, after the label accumulated too much debt. Despite the success of their SSS15 show, the duo will bow out of London Fashion Week’s AW15 catwalk. Style.com stated: “their debts have caught up with them,” and at this point, they can’t afford to go on…
A New York Fashion Week of firsts and lasts
Celebrities are jetting in, gluten-free cocktails are concocted and designers are unveiling their 2015 fall/winter collections: a frozen New York kicks off its multi-million-dollar Fashion Week Thursday. Hot on the heels of haute couture shows in Paris, the fashion glitterati is flocking to admire the best and brightest in US design, where young talent rubs…