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Ethical Fashion: Why and How can the Fashion Industry Close its Elusive Loop?
Jun 2018
Long seen as niche, ethical fashion is now at a turning point. While consumers increasingly claim to try to have a positive impact through their purchases, a growing number of companies embrace the concept and are also becoming aware of the need to ...
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Womenswear in Western Europe
May 2018
Womenswear in Western Europe continues to be driven by fast fashion, and this has led to increased price competition in the region, which has had a negative impact on value growth. Swimwear sales have begun to heat up, while athleisure reaches ...
Country Report
Womenswear in Taiwan
Apr 2018
Womenswear is expected to register modest sales growth rates over the forecast period, with international brands set to continue setting the pace and underpinning the shift away from premium brands towards the standard price bracket. The recent ...
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World market for Apparel and Footwear
Apr 2018
The apparel and footwear industry saw a 1.2% value growth in 2017, an improvement over 2016. But at 3.1% in 2017, volume growth outpaces value growth. The market is indeed being fuelled by volumes as fast-fashion continues expanding in emerging ...
Country Report
Womenswear in Chile
Mar 2018
The strong entrance of international brands proved popular among consumers over the review period, due to rising consumer incomes and a stable economy, despite the slowdown of 2016. Demand is being supported by the expanding middle class and the ...
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Channel Overview in Apparel and Footwear
Mar 2018
Apparel and footwear distribution is heading towards a more symbiotic space, where off-line and online boundaries are disappearing. Specialist retailers remains the most important retail channel, boosted mostly by the continued athleisure trend. ...
Country Report
Womenswear in Singapore
Mar 2018
Womenswear declined in current value terms in 2017, although at a slower rate than in the previous three years with consumer confidence slowly improving off the back of a slight economic improvement and a moderate rise in wages. The government backed...
Country Report
Womenswear in South Africa
Mar 2018
Challenging macroeconomic factors resulted in lower current value growth for womenswear in 2017. The retail environment was characterised by frequent price promotions to drive volume sales. More aggressive promotions were observed both from online ...
Country Report
Womenswear in the US
Mar 2018
Sluggish consumer spending on apparel in 2017 was due to unseasonably warm weather, the new consumerism, a changing retail landscape and the consumer trend for experience over material items. Thus, womenswear saw only slight retail current value ...
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Consumer Trends Shaping the Designer Apparel and Footwear Industry
Mar 2018
Designer apparel and footwear, like the entire luxury industry, is facing a challenging time as globally consumer preferences shift from ‘owning’ to ‘being’, and technologies reinvent the way people consume fashion and engage with brands. This may ...
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Womenswear in the United Kingdom
Mar 2018
Athleisure has become part of consumers’ lifestyles in their desire to find clothing that is comfortable and wearable at work. This is particularly evident in womenswear categories, as the products that are comfortable, such as leggings, are growth ...
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Womenswear in Hong Kong, China
Mar 2018
Women’s leggings recorded the highest current value growth in 2017. Leggings are commonly and widely used in Hong Kong because they are very easy to mix and match with different types of clothing, and they are also aligned with the athleisure trend ...
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Womenswear in Vietnam
Feb 2018
From 2016 to 2017, various new famous international brands such as Zara and H&M entered Ho Chi Minh City, receiving a lot of attention from Vietnamese consumers. For example, at the beginning of September 2017, H&M opened its first store in the ...
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Womenswear in the United Arab Emirates
Feb 2018
Womenswear witnessed low single-digit growth as brands struggled to break even in 2017. Minimal growth was driven by international brands that belong to large retail franchise groups in the region that represent a significant proportion of the highly...
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Womenswear in Malaysia
Feb 2018
Although Malaysia experienced higher real GDP growth in 2017, consumers remained cautious in their spending behaviour as the cost of living continued to rise. Reduced spending on non-essentials supported a significant rise in demand for more ...
Country Report
Womenswear in Egypt
Feb 2018
Egypt’s recession is spilling over into womenswear and a plunge in sales is set to cast a negative shadow over the whole apparel industry. Many ready-to-wear retailers are seeking unconventional solutions to save the category from losses resulting ...
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Womenswear in the Philippines
Feb 2018
Classic designs such as high waist pants and shorts, retro swimwear, dolphin shorts, midi skirts, trucker jackets and flared dresses made a comeback in womenswear in the Philippines in 2017. H&M, Uniqlo, Zara and several other brands sought to ...
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Womenswear in Thailand
Feb 2018
Female consumers in Thailand continue to purchase more clothes than men, with the active and beauty-conscious lifestyle trends supporting consumption within womenswear. Consumers tend to opt for active, casual and multi-purpose clothing which can be ...
Country Report
Womenswear in India
Feb 2018
Traditional Indian ethnicwear such as saris, salvar kameez and churidars accounted for nearly half of all womenswear sold in India over the review period. A large unbranded market exists in India for such ethnicwear catering to price-conscious ...
Country Report
Womenswear in Sweden
Feb 2018
Swedish women have changed their purchasing patterns, as they are enhancing their price awareness by comparing prices online and waiting for sales campaigns. According to a study conducted by Svensk Handel during 2017, 45% of all Swedes planned to ...
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