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This is how the pandemic is re-designing the future of physical retail

Since the global coronavirus pandemic started almost a year ago, physical retail has been under historic levels of pressure. In the United States alone, some 20,000 to 25,000 stores were expected to close in 2020, more than double the number that did so in 2019. Per the latest State of Global Fashion Index by McKinsey and Business of Fashion....

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Why the fashion industry must recalibrate

It took less than one hundred days to upend the fashion industry, its glamorous facades crumbled into a pile of obsolescence. For a moment, the world stopped consuming, and the aspiration economy of luxury, travel, leisure and the acquisition of beautiful things, no longer mattered. Conspicuous consumption and the luxury add-ons of the...