Tag: Retail

Changing Times for MAGIC Fashion Trade Show, including S.L.A.T.E., Turning Focus on Quality, Business, and Price Points Instead of Hype

Fashion trade shows feel the recession, especially the big ones like MAGIC. But business is still being done when it comes to savvy streetwear brands and buyers.

Retail Round-up: Levi’s Sharp Decline, VF Dips but Rumored to Acquire Quiksilver, and Lay-off’s Announced for Wal-Mart, Target, and Nike–Also Rumored to Acquire Quiksilver

Unfortunately, the announcement of the stimulus package passing the Senate couldn’t stop the worst retail economy in 30 years.

Presentaton by Label Networks-Global Youth Culture Fashion Lifestyle Trends: New Focus from Music, Sports, Streets, Technology, Global Subcultures

Label Networks%uFFFD highly anticipated presentation at MAGIC Fashion Trade Show to deliver top trends and inspiration in global youth culture fashion.

Target’s McQ Market Pop-up in NYC Evokes Urban Nostalgia; H&M Increases Organic Cotton Usage and Makes Recycled Polyester Apparel

Big-Box retail and fast-fashion round-up indicates positive new directions, from pop-up masstige to going greener.

Is India the New Market for Fashion Retailers? Zara from Spain, Thinks So

Seeking new markets in a global recession has become a popular trend among fashion retailers and it seems fast-fashion retailers are one step ahead of the curve.

H&M Posts 14% Profit Increase and Outlook for Future Expansion

How this fast-fashion retailer not only remains above the fray of an economic meltdown, but thrives beyond even their own expectations.

Brand Profile: Hot Topic -Tracking Youth Culture Consumer Data, Changes in Trends, and the Retailer’s Formula for Success

Hot Topic has always been a hot topic when it comes to analysts trying to understand this retailer’s appeal to youth culture. Label Networks delivers the inside data, analysis, and trends from a consumer perspective that quantify what makes things work and why.

Adrenalina, the Action Sports Retailer with the Flow-Rider, Puts in Another Bid for PacSun

Denied yet again, but you have to admire their persistence.

Urban Outfitters’ Space 15Twenty Officially Opens and Brings Fresh Ideas to the Concept of Progressive Event Retail

You could call it pop-up retail made permanent but that still doesn’t quite capture the full-picture of Space 15Twenty’s mercurial landscape.

Collaboration Round-Up: Target X Loomstate; Madonna X Louis Vuitton; Jeff Staple X Airwalk X Payless; Mihara Yasuhiro X Puma

The way of the future includes collaborations on a variety of scales to keep retail and consumerism going. Here are some of the latest and best.