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The Problem With the Online Luxury Model

14 May 2020 • By Chantal Fernandez

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The Problem With the Online Luxury Model

It's not just department stores breaking down during the pandemic. Luxury e-commerce, which has a more captive audience than ever, is facing similar challenges.

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Fashion, E-Commerce and the Coronavirus

10 May 2020 • By Brian Baskin

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Fashion, E-Commerce and the Coronavirus

This week, everyone will be talking about online retail's struggles during the pandemic, France lifting its lockdown and fashion media's response to the crisis. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.

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How to Boost Employee Morale During the Pandemic

29 April 2020 • By Tamison O'Connor

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How to Boost Employee Morale During the Pandemic

BoF talked with executives and experts about how companies can motivate their workforces during this difficult and uncertain time.

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Gulf Retailers Will Suffer During Ramadan

22 April 2020 • By Louise Nichol

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Gulf Retailers Will Suffer During Ramadan

With the most important sales period of the year wiped out across the Middle East, luxury brands could be hit hard in key markets like the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia due to mall closures and lockdown.

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Zalando Looks to Concession Model for Growth

16 April 2020 • By Sarah Kent

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Zalando Looks to Concession Model for Growth

The German fashion e-tailer sees the pandemic, which has forced most stores to close across Europe and North America, as an opportunity to turbocharge its sales platform, which handles e-commerce operations for third-party brands.

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The New Normal: A Discount Mindset Will Deepen Its Grip on Consumers

14 April 2020 • By BoF Team and McKinsey & Company

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The New Normal: A Discount Mindset Will Deepen Its Grip on Consumers

As a decade-long build-up of bargain shopping culture is exacerbated by a rise in anti-consumerism, a glut in inventory and cash-strapped consumers looking to trade down or turn to off-price channels, brands must find inventive ways to reestablish value, says The Business of Fashion and McKinsey’s Coronavirus Update to The State of Fashion 2020.

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How Amazon Fashion Could Save a Generation of Designers

10 April 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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How Amazon Fashion Could Save a Generation of Designers

The deep-pocketed e-commerce giant could use its unrivalled platform to support young designers and connect a universe of independent labels with millions of digital consumers, swiftly establishing itself as one of the world’s top fashion destinations.

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Case Study: The Next Wave of Luxury E-Commerce

1 April 2020 • By Lauren Sherman

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Case Study: The Next Wave of Luxury E-Commerce

Online luxury retail is now 20 years old. But after two decades of innovation, once-groundbreaking multi-brand giants face significant changes in consumer behaviour — and a growing, diverse stable of competitors — just as the coronavirus epidemic turns the world upside down. What happens now?

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The BoF Podcast: Luca Solca on ‘The Worst Year in the History of Modern Luxury’

19 March 2020 • By BoF Team

BoF’s Imran Amed and the Bernstein analyst discuss what the sector should expect as coronavirus threatens sales and supply chains.

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The BoF Podcast: Luca Solca on ‘The Worst Year in the History of Modern Luxury’

BoF’s Imran Amed and the Bernstein analyst discuss what the sector should expect as coronavirus threatens sales and supply chains.

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Raf and Miuccia Steal the Spotlight from Paris

23 February 2020 • By Brian Baskin

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Raf and Miuccia Steal the Spotlight from Paris

This week, everyone will be talking about Paris Fashion Week, the bid to take Saks' owner private and a trio of earnings reports by fashion technology companies. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.

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