Category: fashion brands

Zara’s Three Sister Brands Exit Chinese Market

The three sister brands of Spanish Fast Fashion brand ZARA: Bershka, Pull&Bear, and Stradivarius, recently announced they will officially withdraw from the Chinese market by the end of this month, joining an ongoing wave of international fashion giants withdrawing their operations from China. Bershka, Pull&Bear, and Stradivarius, under ZARA’s parent company Inditex, issued closure announcements in…


What Does Sustainable Fashion Mean and How Can a Company Be More Sustainable?

Everyone Is Talking About Sustainability in Fashion but What Does It Actually Mean? Sustainability when it comes to fashion is a subject which is gaining much attention and is forcing many fashion brands to address their environmental and ethical footprint, especially high street retailers that deal in mass-market, low-cost goods in a fast fashion environment….


How Global Supply Chains Are Falling out of Fashion

MILAN—Fashion brands like Benetton are increasingly turning away from globe-spanning supply chains and low-cost manufacturing hubs in Asia, in a shift that could prove a lasting legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. Italy’s Benetton is bringing production closer to home, boosting manufacturing in Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Tunisia, and Egypt, with the aim of halving production in…