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What fashion can learn from runways at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival

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This year’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival (PMFF) was a 15-day-long parade of emerging and established Australian designers spanning over 100 unique events. Premium runways were staged inside Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building against the backdrop of the news that Victoria is Australia’s fashion manufacturing capital.

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Australian Retail Outlook 2023: Paradigm shifts and fresh perspectives

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Jana Bowden, professor of marketing at Macquarie Business School, aptly summarised these developments, noting that the cost of shipping goods to Australia had increased by up to 700 percent, ordering times had tripled and most have had to pay earlier for their orders. More than ever, it is a time for new perspectives and fresh approaches.

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Why Shona Joy is filling in the missing piece of the circular fashion puzzle

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The term “circular fashion” serves as both a challenge to the fashion industry’s traditional model of take-make-waste and a solution to its environmental impact. But while luxury fashion houses are well-versed in repairs, discussions around circular fashion for premium brands are often limited to rental and resale marketplaces.

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What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. The post What’s behind the re-emergence of teen fashion brand Pavement?

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Australian fashion brands seek supply-chain sovereignty

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This is just part of the conversation happening with fashion brands and retailers across the country as pressures mount to gain control over notoriously complex supply chains and work towards circular, sustainable business practices. per cent of fashion shoppers look for Australian made. Earlier this year, R.M.

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VIDEO: Hush Puppies and Pomelo Fashion execs discuss the future of retail

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Yesterday, in an exclusive virtual event for Inside Retail subscribers, Charlene Perera, general manager for Hush Puppies and Clarks and Jean Thomas, chief marketing officer at on-trend womenswear brand Pomelo Fashion discussed the future of retail across the APAC region. Missed out? Click on the link below to watch the webinar now.

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High tech meets high fashion: Balmain launches NFT-based loyalty program

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French luxury fashion house Balmain has launched a non-fungible token (NFT) based membership program, The Balmain Thread, in partnership with MintNFT. Launched during Paris Fashion Week, it’s a reimagined loyalty and rewards program powered by Web3 technology and designed to be a seamless experience across physical and digital environments.

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