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High-end fashion brand Christian Louboutin partnered with Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin to enter the eyewear market, per Women鈥檚 Wear Daily. The move, which dovetails with the brand moving into beauty in 2014 and its launch of pet and kids categories in 2022, is the latest step in its bid to become a 鈥渃omplete lifestyle luxury accessories player,鈥� CEO Alexis Mourot told WWD.

For instance, customers in Japan may be shown pictures of trail running shoes with Mount Fuji in the backdrop. Resale platform Depop rolled out a genAI-powered feature for sellers that generates listing descriptions and populates item attributes鈥攊ncluding color, category and sub-category, and brand鈥攆rom a single product photo.

Macy鈥檚, which hosted a Prime Day-like All-Star Week sale, and emphasized value as it relaunched its Epic Threads brand that includes over 200 pieces of children鈥檚 clothing and accessories priced between $10 and $50. Kohl鈥檚, which also hosted a July sale, is leaning into nostalgia as tween-focused apparel brand Limited Too relaunches in its stores and online after a 15-year hiatus.

Walmart, for example, earlier this year rolled out a slew of similar tools, including Be Your Own Model, which lets a shopper use their own photo to better visualize how clothing will look on them. Others, including Adobe and Amazon, have also trotted out similar solutions in recent years.

The big takeaway: Inditex is well-positioned to outperform the broader apparel industry given its quick speed to market, ongoing investments in stores and logistics, and its popularity among higher-income consumers.

The ability to try on and physically evaluate products is likely what has kept stores relevant in categories like furniture and home goods, beauty, and clothing. A digital channel drives the same level of discovery as physical stores in only two categories: consumer electronics and accessories. In these areas, stores and retail websites were equally relevant.

Motor vehicle and parts dealer sales; furniture sales; electronics and appliance sales; building material and garden equipment sales; food and beverage sales; health and personal care sales; gasoline sales; clothing and clothing accessories sales; sporting goods, hobby, book and physical music sales; general merchandise sales; miscellaneous sales; nonstore sales (i.e., pure-play ecommerce platform sales

Lululemon: The athletic wear brand beat expectations in its last reported quarter, and remains successful even as it mulls a Mirror sale and returns to its roots in apparel. Success for lululemon came from beating US brands to market.

The stat: Over half (60%) of holiday season spend to-date was driven by five categories, according to Adobe Analytics鈥攅lectronics ($21.7 billion), apparel ($19.2 billion), furniture ($14.7 billion), grocery ($6.8 billion), and toys ($3.1 billion).

The categories that will see the largest holiday retail sales growth in the US are food and beverage (10.0%), apparel, footwear and accessories (6.6%), and health and personal care (6.6%), per our forecast. 3. Mobile commerce drives holiday ecommerce growth.

As consumers continue seeing the movie (some for a second or third time), sales of 鈥淏arbie鈥�-related toys, clothing, and accessories will most likely climb as retailers reap the rewards of the pink halo. Mattel plans to apply its 鈥淏arbie鈥� strategy to all its theatrical releases, according to Ynon Kreiz, executive chairman and CEO of Mattel.

But digital will still account for 28.9% of total textile, clothing, and footwear sales in 2023鈥攖he highest share of any category. The cost-of-living crisis will still hinder growth. Shoppers are continuing to cut back on clothing and footwear purchases and return more items. That will constrain growth in the category, which will remain behind pre-pandemic levels through 2026.

Before the pandemic, categories like consumer electronics and apparel dominated ecommerce in terms of share. But those categories have reached digital shopping maturity and are now growing more slowly and losing ground. Food and beverage, by contrast, is still in a transformational high-growth era and will continue to steal share from the larger categories. To view the full forecast, click here.

Nordstrom is known for fun, fashion, cool sort of factor, but it needs to bring in a younger customer, which obviously TikTok has, but Nordstrom has been trying to push its live stream shopping since 2021. I think there is some interesting synergies for Nordstrom and for TikTok shop, in addition to needing an American owner, that is maybe not in the public eye. (16:42):.

The context: Shein has a dominant (40%) share of the US fast-fashion market thanks to its vast assortment of low-priced apparel that appeals to Gen Z and millennial shoppers, per Bloomberg. Despite its success, the company has significant challenges.