As the Indian direct-to-consumer (D2C) fashion and apparel sector consolidates, its revealing a sharp departure from the hypergrowth narrative that defined the pandemic years. Between 2020 and 2022, abundant ...
India’s high-end consumer market has seen a redistribution as Kolkata emerges as a long-term growth hub for global fashion, lifestyle, and luxury conglomerates. While New Delhi and Mumbai continue to dominate ...
For over a decade, India’s apparel industry pursued the youth market with relentless intensity. Fast fashion cycles, influencer-led discovery, and price-sensitive consumption patterns became the dominant ...
The global fashion industry is facing a reckoning. For decades, apparel manufacturing has relied on a linear model of extraction, production, consumption and disposal. The result has been an enormous environmental ...
Virgio is aggressively transitioning from a traditional retail entity to an advanced, AI-driven manufacturing ecosystem, setting its sights on becoming the world’s preeminent on-demand fashion brand by ...
India's direct-to-consumer fashion sector has emerged as one of the country's fastest-growing retail segments, driven by digital adoption, social commerce and a steady influx of new brands. Yet behind the ...
India’s ethnic wear market is now reshaping the country’s broader fashion retail economy. What was once considered a seasonal, wedding-led business has now evolved into a year-round consumption category ...
India’s apparel and fashion industry has crossed a major milestone, with the domestic market now valued at more than $115 billion. The growth story, however, is no longer being defined merely by rising ...
India’s apparel and direct-to-consumer (D2C) fashion sector has entered a phase where the contest is no longer defined purely by scale, visibility, or funding size. Instead, the market is being shaped ...
For years, India's fashion and apparel retailers followed a familiar expansion formula, secure a prominent location in a premium mall, invest heavily in store aesthetics, launch with celebrity-driven campaigns, ...
India’s fashion industry is operating under a glaring ethical split: cleaning up its environmental act for Western buyers while dumping irresponsible, opaque products on the domestic market.
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... expansion are taking longer to mature. The traditional 18-month breakeven and stabilisation period for value-fashion stores has now stretched to nearly 30-36 months in many markets. Rising logistics expenses, ...
28 May 2026, Mumbai
Max Fashion is reinforcing its leadership in the value-fashion segment by integrating experiential marketing with its latest seasonal launch. In celebration of its 20th year in India, ...
28 May 2026, Mumbai
What began as a value-fashion success story led by Trent Limited’s Zudio has rapidly evolved into a wider disruption that is redrawing the economics of fashion retail across the country. ...
27 May 2026, Mumbai
Winners in India’s fashion retail market are no longer determined by brand recall alone, but by the strength of supply chains, inventory agility and real estate execution. As the ...
26 May 2026, Mumbai
Eighteen months ago, quick-commerce fashion was dismissed as an expensive experiment with little long-term viability. Critics argued that apparel could never fit into the same rapid-delivery ...
For over a decade, India’s apparel industry pursued the youth market with relentless intensity. Fast fashion cycles, influencer-led discovery, and price-sensitive consumption patterns became the dominant ...
15 May 2026, Mumbai
For decades, growth was in the Indian fashion industry was measured through expansion in manufacturing capacity, seasonal collections, and aggressive retail footprint development. ...
12 May 2026, Mumbai
Value-fashion major Citykart has strengthened its operations in East Uttar Pradesh with the launch of its third flagship store in Ballia. This move is a targeted component of the ...
12 May 2026, Mumbai
Industry veteran Shailesh Chaturvedi has successfully marked his return to the fashion landscape with the launch of Neopolis Brands, supported by a Rs 90 crore seed funding round. ...