The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The Japanese e-commerce firm Zozo will launch Zozovilla, a luxury and designer platform featuring 90 brands including Loewe, Dries van Noten and Thom Browne, on March 18.
The news marks a relaunch of Zozovilla: its previous iteration was introduced in 2010 and later integrated into Zozotown’s main platform. It also signals the company’s ambitions to move into Japan’s luxury space, which has long lacked a homegrown digital leader.
In addition to Zozotown, Zozo operates e-commerce platforms Zozoshoes and Zozoused, its second-hand arm.
Local streetwear brands, festivals and stores selling major global labels remain relatively small but the country’s community of hypebeasts and sneakerheads is growing fast.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Senegalese investors, an Indian menswear giant and workers’ rights in Myanmar.
Though e-commerce reshaped retailing in the US and Europe even before the pandemic, a confluence of economic, financial and logistical circumstances kept the South American nation insulated from the trend until later.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Korean shopping app Ably, Kenya’s second-hand clothing trade and the EU’s bid to curb forced labour in Chinese cotton.