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How Shein’s social media tactics have won over ‘eco-conscious’ Gen Z

Inside Retail

Founded in 2008, Shein (originally SheInside) started out as a wedding dress business. Vincent Djen, a manufacturing and retail expert based in China, credits Shein’s success to its social media strategy, flexible supply chain and consumer demand for the latest fashion trends at affordable prices. Social media sensation.

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Ultra-fast fashion is undermining efforts to make the industry more sustainable

Inside Retail

The amount of natural resources consumed and waste produced is snowballing. And let’s not forget the power of consumers. Most ultra-fast fashion brands emerged in the late 2010s following the most well known, Shein, founded in 2008. We’re on a downward spiral, from fast fashion to ultra-fast fashion. Cheap clothing at what cost?

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Beyond Starbucks: Three specialty coffee retailers taking Australia by storm

Inside Retail

It does so by engaging with everyone who comes into its orbit: from the coffee growers and communities the brand works within producing countries, to its team members, customers and the planet. It does so through a variety of methods, including the use of its website, social media, product packaging and custom-made postcards.

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What will drive retail spending in 2018?

Barber Design

Uncertain economic and political conditions have diminished consumer confidence and made spending particularly volatile. Recent consumer research for Retail Week conducted by 3Gem Research and Insight has highlighted the factors that will drive retail spending next year: Christmas predictors. But not everyone is using social media.

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Celebrating World Industrial Design Day with Srini Srinivasan, president of the World Design Organisation

Design Wanted

Since 2007, the 29th of June has been observed as World Industrial Design Day to celebrate the merits of industrial designers and to actively engage design professionals and design enthusiasts to explore their creativity. Since 2020 many of these activities have turned virtual , powered by social media, but we have not been deterred.

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