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Bollywood Brands Influencing Indian Consumers

Bollywood celebrity brands, such as Being Human by Salman Khan, HRX by Hrithik Roshan and many other are continuing to gain popularity in the fashion market in India, Euromonitor International’s Lifestyle Survey states that in 2019, 28 percent of respondents from India claim to have been influenced by celebrities while making a purchase...

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British designers to take to the catwalk at London Fashion Weekend

London - Holly Fulton is set to join the likes of fellow designers Emilia Wickstead, Mary Katrantzou and Temperley London in showcasing their Spring/Summer 2016 collections at London Fashion Weekend, the bi-annual consumer event. Taking place at the Saatchi Gallery from February 25 to 29, two days after the end of London Fashion Week, the...

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To buy or not to buy: the lure of cheap clothes

Unless they have lived under a rock for the last few years, most people would have heard something about the production of clothes and the sometimes less than ideal conditions under which they are made: in factories with safety issues where workers slave long hours for a pittance. Though this may be the worst scenario and there is a whole range...

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Amazon struck by recurrent website outages

Amazon customers across the UK and Europe encountered a number of issues on Monday as the Amazon website struggled to remain online for more than a few minutes. It was the second day that the online retail giant website was having intermittent problems running its site, with the platform dropping offline several times. Amazon Prime customers...

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UK consumers to spend 42 billion pounds this Christmas

A new report released by Deloitte states UK consumers are set to spend over 42 billion pounds this Christmas, up 4 percent on last year. Online sales are expected to account for 13 percent of December takings, the report also states. Mintel predicts retail sales will rise 3 percent this Christmas to 36.5 billion pounds, with 25 percent of UK...

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Bread & Butter just open to industry professionals after all

German fashion trade show Bread & Bread has canceled its upcoming “Public Days” which were set to take place during its summer edition, July 8 to 10. The trade fair will now only take place over three days, instead of the five days as previously announced and remains only open to industry professionals. Last year December, Berlin-based fashion...

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Inflation scares consumers

More than 80 per cent of consumers believe prices will rise in 2006, sparking fears that base rates will climb to combat inflation, according to the February Consumer Barometer from Lloyds TSB Financial Markets. Eighty-one per cent of consumers believe that prices in general will rise during the year, with only two per cent expecting them to...