Articles by Jaime Martinez
Apollo acquires 30 percent stake in TradeInn
Madrid – Spanish sportswear e-commerce platform TradeInn welcomes a new minority partner. US investment firm Apollo Global Management has acquired a 30 percent stake, previously held by Spanish private equity firm Suma Capital. French sporting goods retailer Decathlon had also expressed interest in this stake. Reports surfaced in late July 2024...
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Mango energises shopping experience: WhatsApp channel and AI stylist
Mango continues its commitment to personalising the shopping experience through increased digitalisation. The company has announced the launch of two new digital tools: a WhatsApp channel and "Mango Stylist", an AI-powered fashion assistant and stylist. These are the latest steps in Mango's strategic "Plan 4E", presented in early March 2024. The...
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El Corte Inglés ends 2024 with its highest revenue in 14 years
Madrid – Spanish department store group El Corte Inglés (ECI) presented its financial results for the 2024/2025 financial year. This period, which ended on February 28, saw the company, chaired by Marta Álvarez, achieve its highest revenue in 14 years. According to information provided by the management of the Spanish group, ECI ended its last...
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Zara Woman launches collection for “outdoor” activities
Zara, the main chain of Spanish fashion giant Inditex strengthens its position in the growing and highly resilient sportswear sector with the launch of its first sports collection for women. A collection targeted at outdoor activities, designed especially for the practice of high-impact outdoor sports such as cycling or climbing. With the aim of...
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How the US 25 percent trade tariff increase could hit EU and UK fashion
The United States announced recently that it would apply a tariff increase of 25 percent on goods from three European countries, as well as the United Kingdom, Turkey and India. The measure was soon suspended to allow for international negotiations to proceed. The 25 percent tariff increase was announced in response to the EU’s decision to apply...
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Inditex accused of turning a blind eye amid rising tensions in China boycott crisis
On Thursday, China, backed by the Chinese government itself, started retaliating against the Western boycott of cotton produced in the ‘Uyghur labor camps’ of Xinjiang, calling for its own boycott against international fashion companies. The boycott primarily affected Swedish retail giant H&M on Thursday, but is now also being launched against...
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Rochas appoints 24-year-old Charles de Vilmorin as creative director
Rochas, the almost century-old French house, has just appointed the young French designer Charles de Vilmorin, just 24 years old, as the new creative director of the Maison . Position that will go on to hold immediately occupying the place left empty by the Italian designer Alessandro Dell'Acqua , who decided to leave the French house last...
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Without Saint Laurent or Alexander McQueen: this will be Paris Fashion Week SS21
The French Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the organization responsible for ensuring the fashion sector in the French country and for the celebration of their respective Fashion and Haute Couture Weeks, has already announced which will be the official show calendar for the next Paris Fashion Week. Catwalk that will serve for the...
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Gucci closes its "love trilogy" with its collaborators turned models
With an "epilogue" chapter turned into an "overture", a 12-hour live stream and with the closest collaborators of Alessandro Michele, the house's creative director, turned into campaign models. This is how last Friday the Italian firm Gucci finally presented, as part of the Milan Digital Fashion Week, the latest collection by the Italian...
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Christina Fontana: “Alibaba will continue to be the trusted partner of European companies”
FashionUnited interviewed Christina Fontana, fashion and luxury director for Europe at Tmall, the B2C market of the Alibaba Group. She talked to us about the future challenges that companies will have to face, as well as the different tools that Alibaba offers them to contribute to their international expansion, especially in the Chinese market....
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