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Why Are DTC Brands Moving to Wholesale? JOOR CEO Kristin Savilia Explains

The golden era of DTC appears to be over as an increasing number of fashion brands are making the move to wholesale. So who better to ask about this industry trend than Kristin Savilia, CEO of the industry’s leading B2B platform JOOR which has processed over $100 billion in wholesale transactions. We asked for her expert insight into this market...

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With the launch of Valia Fashion, Lectra propels fashion brands and manufacturers into a new technological era

This groundbreaking digital platform accelerates fashion companies’ transition towards Industry 4.0 by transforming fashion production and making it more sustainable Lectra supports the digital transformation and the transition towards Industry 4.0 of fashion, automotive and furniture companies. The Group has announced the launch of Valia...

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Paul Smith refashions the cut of its ecommerce and digital wholesale, in partnership with Centra

Britain’s iconic design company, Paul Smith, is removing the boundaries between its online direct-to-consumer (DTC), digital wholesale and physical retail to create a seamless, global brand presence, in partnership with Centra, the specialist fashion and lifestyle ecommerce platform. Paul Smith’s products are crafted with more than fifty years...

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Keeping the industry fit for the future - Digital tools, collaborations, storytelling at the 53rd INNATEX

The mood in the INNATEX community is on the rise – this was the conclusion as INNATEX closed at the Messecenter Hofheim Rhein-Main in Wallau, near Frankfurt, on 22 January 2024. Considering the economic situation in the sector, which remains tense, the 53rd edition of the international trade fair for sustainable textiles has been seen as a...

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4 Reasons Fashion Retailers Need to Embrace Digital Transformation

The fashion world today is incredibly complex and fast-moving, with the only constant being change. One of the most important questions brands and retailers must ask themselves is "how can we adapt to this constant change?" For many of the world’s leading brands, retailers and manufacturers the only way is to embrace digital transformation. With...

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European wholesale powerhouses, COLECT and LE NEW BLACK merge to become European leader and enter the USA

The merger of two digital wholesale industry leaders, LE NEW BLACK and COLECT, is set to redefine the landscape of European wholesale. Having already established offices in key fashion capitals like Paris, New York, and Amsterdam, the primary objective of the strategic manoeuvre is to expand the reach of both brands throughout Europe,...

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Is it time for your brand to shift to digital selling?

What triggers a change in your brand? Is it the fear of missing out (FOMO) on a trend? The need to keep up with the competition? Or is it when you see potential to do better business by implementing new processes? Change can stem from a number of motivations, but it benefits from a clear business objective. In digital selling, these objectives...

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Digitization in the fashion industry - What is holding us back?

If you look at the digitization index of the German economy and take a closer look at the retail sector, you will see that it is far behind the average of 105.1 points with 75.4 points (source: Statista). But what is the situation specifically in the fashion industry? What is holding fashion retailers back from embracing digitization? And: How...

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Vogue magazine to reduce print issues to 10 editions per year

The future of printed fashion magazines has once again come under scrutiny, as Vogue, arguably the world’s most recognisable style publication, is to shrink its schedule to 10 issues per year. The number of publications will be reduced from 11, a schedule Conde Nast has adhered to over the past three years, prior to being a monthly release. With...

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LIVE SHOPPING: Social commerce arrives in digital retail

Live shopping offers retailers, brands, and digital platforms a new channel with gargantuan scope for creating markets via social media livestreams. Mixing online shopping with social media, personal interaction is the real draw of live shopping and what gives it its cutting edge. Live shopping is exciting and brings back the fun factor. Even...

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What’s next for modernizing physical retail?

For close to a decade now, brick-and-mortar has been treated like it was some dinosaur that would slowly go extinct. It was like a cow someone was going to put out to pasture. It was your grandparent before you put them in a nursing home. The rise of e-commerce and online shipping did chip away at some of brick-and-mortar’s position as the...

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Mind The Gap: The State of B2B eCommerce Digital Transformation

A new report from NuOrder by Lightspeed, a leading B2B ecommerce platform, found that many organizations implement advanced solutions to help drive wholesale but struggle to standardize and upgrade their processes operationally. Ecommerce has undergone rapid transformation over the past few years. Before COVID-19, many enterprise brands were...