Op-Ed | Making The Case Against Fast Fashion Collaborations

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Maison Martin Margiela for H&M | Source: H&M

Today, with the Maison Martin Margiela for H&M capsule collection set to arrive in stores later this week, guest contributor Eugene Rabkin, editor-in-chief of StyleZeitgeist magazine, makes the case against fast fashion collaborations. NEW YORK, United States — It’s been eight years since Karl Lagerfeld for H&M, the first collaboration between a high fashion designer and a mass retailer on a limited-edition capsule

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Joseph Mimran’s Fresh Approach

Intelligence | Toronto

Joe Fresh Fifth Avenue Flagship | Source: Courtesy photo

TORONTO, Canada — These days, it’s not uncommon that a weekly trip to the local supermarket for milk, cereal and bread might involve coming home with a coat, dress or pair of jeans. Since 1990, when British supermarket chain Asda launched George, the world’s first grocery store clothing label, companies like Tesco and Sainsbury’s have followed suit, capitalising on well-established relationships with their customers, who visit

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Finding Your M.O. | Part 11: Motivating and Retaining Talent

Education | Finding Your M.O.

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Finding Your M.O. is an on-going series on The Business of Fashion penned by Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, co-founder and CEO of Moda Operandi, on her experience at the helm of a fashion-technology start-up. Last time, in Part 10, we examined the process of team building. Today, we explore how to motivate and retain talent. NEW YORK, United States — Any MBA programme will tell you that managing people is perhaps the biggest challenge that a

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Op-Ed | The Problem with Most Fashion-Tech Startups

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Source: Uprising Movements

Today, Lawrence Lenihan, founder and managing director of FirstMark Capital, examines the burgeoning interest in fashion-technology startups. NEW YORK, United States — Fashion is an incredible industry. It’s sexy, it’s glamorous, it’s exciting. But it’s also incredibly complicated and the amount of change the Internet and other technology innovations will bring to this industry in the next decade will be mindboggling. Indeed, our

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Finding Your M.O. | Part 10: Building the Team

Education | Finding Your M.O.

Finding Your M.O. is an on-going series on The Business of Fashion penned by Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, co-founder and CEO of Moda Operandi, on her experience at the helm of a fashion-technology start-up. Last time, in Part 9, we looked at customer acquisition. Today, we examine how to build a great team. NEW YORK, United States — To build a successful business you need to have the right team in place. But what constitutes the right

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