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Eddie Bauer retains RCS Real Estate Advisors as consultant for bankruptcy proceedings

Eddie Bauer has retained RCS Real Estate Advisors, a national retail real estate advisory firm, to serve as its consultant during its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. In its role, RCS is set to advise Eddie Bauer in all matters related to real estate. The announcement comes weeks after the outdoor retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and...

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Aritzia buys Fred Segal as it accelerates US expansion

Aritzia has reportedly acquired Fred Segal from Fred Segal Family LLC, as the Canadian womenswear brand continues on its strong growth path. In addition to purchasing the Fred Segal brand, intellectual property, and trademarks, Aritzia is also said to have secured the lease for 8100 Melrose Avenue, the original location of Fred Segal’s flagship...

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Wuthering Heights rolls out global fashion-led marketing campaign

What appears at first glance to be another prestige literary adaptation has emerged as one of the most extensive fashion and lifestyle marketing campaigns attached to a film release, not seen since Barbie. Wuthering Heights has been supported by a global, multi-category rollout that positions the film less as a standalone cultural product and...

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Madewell, Reformation and C&A partner with Fiber Club from Circ to accelerate use of recycled textiles

Lifestyle brand Madewell, Los Angeles-based fashion brand Reformation, and European retailer C&A are three of the newest brand partners to join the Fiber Club initiative from Circ, a US-based textile-to-textile recycler. The three new brand partners, together with fiber manufacturer Lenzing and Linz Textil, a European manufacturer of yarns,...

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New Balance achieves 9.2 billion dollars in annual sales

US sportswear giant New Balance achieved a notable feat for 2025, recording an annual global sales growth of 19 percent year-over-year, amounting to 9.2 billion dollars. The figures were shared in a business update by the company’s president and CEO, Joe Preston, who noted that this was New Balance’s fifth consecutive year of double-digit...

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Africa Fashion Up opens applications for 6th edition in Paris

Africa Fashion Up, a Paris-based platform dedicated to promoting contemporary African fashion, has opened applications for its sixth edition. Organised by the Share Africa Association in collaboration with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, the 2026 programme will accept submissions from February 17 to April 17. Founded in 2020 by...

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Retail Insights Report 2025: The evolution of buying in fashion retail

Fashion retail has reached a structural inflection point as the industry shifts from intuition-based buying to data-first decision-making. According to the 'Retail Insights Report 2025' by US-based B2B platform NuORDER by Lightspeed, 68 percent of senior retail leaders now rely on quantitative data as their primary forecasting tool. The study,...

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Asos launches hybrid virtual try-on via its app

E-commerce giant Asos has introduced a new hybrid virtual try-on feature for shoppers using its IOS app with the goal of providing users with a more personalised experience. Launched in partnership with AI fashion platform AIUTA, the feature will initially allow shoppers to digitally try-on 10,000 products via either an image they uploaded...

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TMU Scholars Publish first textbook dedicated to plus-size patternmaking

Plus-Size Patternmaking for Womenswear, co-authored by Leila Kelleher, a fashion scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and technical designer Gabby Brown, has been published, marking what is described as the first textbook dedicated exclusively to plus-size patternmaking. The book addresses a longstanding gap in fashion education and...

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The RealReal to reopen its flagship store in San Francisco

The RealReal is set to reopen the doors of its flagship store in San Francisco, as the global marketplace for the resale of luxury goods seeks to strengthen its connection to the city in which it was founded, while showing its support for the revitalization of the city’s downtown area. The San Francisco flagship, located at 253 Post Street, is...

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Jewelry brand David Yurman files lawsuit against TJX Companies over "dupes"

Fine-jewelry brand David Yurman is suing off-price retail giant TJX Companies over the selling of “dupes.” David Yurman Enterprises LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on February 11 in the New York Southern District Court amid claims that unauthorized replicas of the brand’s jewelry designs were being sold at TJ Maxx and Marshall stores....

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Nonprofit Remake closes down after failing to secure sustainable funding

Remake, the nonprofit behind the #NoNewClothes and #WearYourValues campaigns, is shutting down after failing to secure the necessary funding to sustain its operations. Founder of the organisation, Ayesha Barenblat, announced the news on Instagram, stating that this decision made by Remake’s board was the “most responsible path forward” in the...