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Quick fashion: Legacy brands race to match instant delivery demands

admin — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:27:00 +0000

Vaeshnavi Kasthuril, MINT Mumbai, 6 May 2026 Fashion retailers are speeding up deliveries to keep pace with instant-gratification shopping driven by quick-fashion startups, with established players and newer brands taking sharply different approaches. For example, brands such as Biba and The House of Rare have adopted a more calibrated, infrastructure-led strategy rather than a rapid […]

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Erratic winter puts clothing retailers on thin ice for a second straight year

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Vaeshnavi Kasthuril, Mint Bengaluru, 11 February 2026 Sales of winter wear were underwhelming for the second year in a row as an unusually delayed and milder winter disrupted demand for heavy winter wear, particularly in north and west India, executives at two of India’s top clothing retailers said. Initial optimism for a bumper season this […]

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Foreign fashion labels fade, functional clothing the fad

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:07:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, ET Bureau Mumbai, 15 January 2026 It’s mostly a tale of two halves for top western fashion labels in India after the runaway sales and retail expansion in the years soon after the pandemic. While Marks & Spencer, Benetton, and Adidas are battling waning demand, Uniqlo and Nike are gaining fresh ground, reflecting […]

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Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein ramps up speed, scale to win India market

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:59:00 +0000

Shabori Das & Sagar Malviya, Economic Times Bengaluru/Mumbai, 24 September 2025 Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein plans to triple the number of launches in India and shrink its design-to-launch timeline by a third to deepen its push into an increasingly competitive market, a top official said. The company, which re-entered India through a partnership with Reliance […]

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India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:30:00 +0000

By Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya, Rest of World Mumbai, India, 23 May 2025 Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction in a market where Amazon and Walmart have been fighting neck-to-neck […]

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India bets big on zero-waste fashion

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:26:00 +0000

Chitra Narayanan, BusinessLine New Delhi, 23 February 2025 India’s formidable array of craft traditions got full play at the just concluded Bharat Tex 2025, the mega textile trade show in New Delhi that showcased the best of Indian weaves to the world. But if there was one theme that dominated this year’s textile extravaganza, aimed […]

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Does Fashion’s Style Fit the Lean Quick Commerce Body?

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:38:01 +0000

Opinion piece by Devangshu Dutta, published in TexFash.com 12 December 2024 TLDR: Quick commerce needs to have a profitable business on a much narrower product profile. The more predictable and basic the product, the more it suits a Q-commerce business model. There’s potential for basics (e.g. T-shirts in common colours, innerwear, socks, and hosiery), last-minute […]

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Fast fashion players such as M&S, Zara, H&M see fall in sales growth on spending woes

admin — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:56:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times Mumbai, 14 December 2024 Fast fashion was on a slow lane in the last fiscal year. Sales growth slowed for top retailers and fast fashion brands, show the latest regulatory filings of Marks & Spencer, Zara, H&M, Levi’s, Lifestyle, Uniqlo, Benetton and Celio. The bottom line too had taken a hit, […]

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How Shein-Reliance Nexus Will Shake Up India’s Online Fashion Market

admin — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:08:00 +0000

Shein is to re-enter India through a brand licence to Reliance Retail, selling both offline and online. Will it be a hit like its first stint in India?

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Inditex to launch Bershka and Zara Home in India this year

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 05:46:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times Mumbai, 15 April 2024 Spanish fashion company Inditex said it will launch youth clothing brand Bershka and Zara Home in India this year. “Bershka will open its first store in Mumbai Palladium, and Zara Home will open in Bangalore,” it said in its latest annual report. Inditex had launched fast fashion […]

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