Rebecca Thomson

This year has, so far, brought little but bad news for the luxury fashion industry. With markets fro...

Now in its 16th year, Drapers launches its annual search for the strongest talent and rising fashion retail stars of 2025.

As Pangaia gears up to open its first UK store in July 2024, the B Corp-certified clothing brand highlights its biggest achievements from its 2023 Impact Report.

Former Ann Summers chief executive Jacqueline Gold was perhaps best known for her ability to shake t...

The feature-length documentary, released in 2023, followed Amy Powney as she developed a new collection for Mother of Pearl using fabrics made as

The Chinese marketplace is accused of "failing to protect consumers" and "using manip...

Lucynda Davies will take over the position from Bas van den Bemt, who is being promoted to managing ...

It is a quiet Friday morning when Drapers visits BrandAlley’s offices in Shoreditch, east London, as...

For many UK fashion brands and retailers, the US is the number one international goal. It can feel l...

Visitors to Fashion Enter’s factory in Haringey, north London, usually remark on its air of industrious energy. On any given day, members of the 45-strong Drapers’ Sustainable Fashion Champion 2024 is a long-term proponent of UK manufacturing and ethical labour practices – with the commercial nous to make it work financially. Drapers reports on Jenny Holloway’s ongoing contribution to the industry.

Kim Winser has quite the CV. She started at Marks & Spencer’s management trainee scheme in 1...

Five businesses with ideas spanning extending the life of cotton to building a marketplace of sustai...

When online customer reviews were first introduced back in the 1990s, most retailers thought they were a terrible idea. The notion of allowing negative feedback to be freely available right next to the product you are trying to sell felt, at the very least, counter-intuitive. But reviews are a textbook example of an online feature that in theory feels like madness, but in reality, perfectly solves a problem. In our new Drapers Guide, we unpack this: why are reviews so useful, how are retailers using them today, how are they changing and where might they go in the future?  Fashion retailers might feel as though reviews are less relevant to them than for other categories. Fashion is a subjective purchase: a fashion product can’t “work” or “not work”, as it can in kitchenware or electronics. Neither have reviews become as central to fashion’s business model as they have in travel, for instance, where they can play a significant role in a consumer’s research process. But they are, nonetheless, beco

Canada Goose chief executive Dani Reiss Traditionally reliant on wholesale, luxury outerwear bran...

Drapers’ recent Connected Consumer report has this year given us our first glimpse of how Generation Z shoppers want to interact with fashion brands. Our annual consumer survey highlights significant differences in what younger shoppers and older shoppers want. Older shoppers remain crucial for today’s market – they have higher incomes and more purchasing power. But for success in the future, and hints for how businesses need to evolve, brands need to tune into younger generations’ habits. More detail on all these points can be found in the full report, but the most interesting things to note include: Generation Z are keen shoppers. A huge 93% of them said they buy clothing every month; around half say they also buy footwear and accessories that often. Most of them spend between £20 and £60 per month. Stores and online are nearly neck and neck – 40% say they prefer bricks and mortar, while 45% say they prefer shopping online. Mobile took 13% of the vote. Generation Z are driven by events – 47%

Its operational model is so unsustainable that profits and margins are likely to be affected by 2030...

Filippa Knutsson, Filippa K Sustainability has always been part of the DNA at contemporary brand ...

The UK is set to leave the European Union in March 2019, and the exit is likely to have a detrimenta...

It has the power to digitalise the industry, and consequently deliver huge business value by making the industry faster, more sustainable, and freer to be innovative and creative.Download the Drapers/EFI Optitex report to discover the impact 3D prototyping can have on a fashion business, bringing greater collaboration between departments, improving speed to market and enabling digital sign-off.  Click here to download the report. 

As New Look faces more challenges, Drapers looks at what needs to be done to turn its fortunes around.