2/19/2021 12:35:08 PM Is a Vegan Chocolate Bar Really That Great For the Circular Economy? By Stephen Sumner What exactly is a circular economy? In simple terms, it means that products are made from recycled materials, and they themselves are...
9/14/2020 11:22:46 AM Agile Fashion Meets Agile Hotels To Deliver 'Curated Retail' Events. By Stephen Sumner The business world is made of some really bright, innovative 'Change Makers', we all know who they are, I've worked with some really...
8/30/2020 12:59:02 PM Forget 'MissGuided' & 'BooHoo' - 'Manctopia' is the Bigger Concern. By Stephen Sumner As we all have more 'stay at home' time TV consumption has risen across all streaming media platforms. In the UK we are currently...
8/16/2020 10:27:27 AM Fashion Week is Being Brought to 'You' - Something Else Retail Should Also be Doing? By Stephen Sumner As the UK Government continue to open and close 'travel corridors' as indecisive as a brides nightie it's not only retail that seems to...
8/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Forget the EU Wine Lake - There's an $395bn Apparel Mountain to Climb. By Stephen Sumner If you're involved in the fast fashion business it seems that fast is not really what's happening right now. With every retail business...
7/12/2020 10:53:38 AM Is 'Fast Fashion' Really As Agile as They Think? By Stephen Sumner Just recently we were exposed to the media headlines about the sweatshops in Leicester that had been using what's being called 'slave...
2/17/2020 2:39:18 PM Are you a Fashion Swisher - Yes, its a real trend? By Stephen Sumner Sustainable fashion is most definitely becoming a mainstream strategy for brands and retailers alike, but it's the consumer whose driving...
1/21/2020 1:05:38 PM Fast Fashion, is it sustainable? By Stephen Sumner This blog is inspired by an article on 'Forbes' (link below) by Andrew Busby whose a retail pundit like myself but an awful lot better at...
11/18/2019 10:13:31 AM Would you buy 'Digital 'Fashion that doesn’t exist? By Stephen Sumner Would you buy a 'digital fashion' outfit for £7,500?. You're probably thinking WTF as this isn't an actual physical product or item. ...
10/14/2019 10:31:00 AM If your happy and you know it ‘buy more clothes’! By Stephen Sumner Low prices aren’t fun anymore—consumers have reached peak happiness with clothing purchases! Now I have to admit that this is not a...