Online sales growth continued, of course, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, but it seems the growth was slower in certain areas.Looking at the headline figures, online retail sales rose 12.8% year-on-year in August, but they dropped 1.7% month-on-month. That latter figure wasn’t particularly bad news given that there is a pattern of lower sales in August compared to July. And in fact, August last year saw a decline of almost 5% so a drop of less than 2% didn’t look too bad.
Interestingly, m-commerce growth was at an all-time low of only 10% year-on-year, that sector having shown explosive growth in recent periods as customers migrated from their computers to shopping via tablets or smartphones. It was always inevitable that this growth would slow at so…
The brand is bringing its offering up-to-date with inspiration from Peter Max, American artist and pop-art figure, with whom it created a collaborative line in the 1970s. At the time, the brand known for its 5 pocket jeans was a fashion staple, an icon of the Woodstock Summer of Love that had marked the end of the previous decade.For Spring/Summer 2017, the capsule comprises 15 garments for men and 15 for women. Far from being confined to jeans, it includes shorts, T-shirts, sweaters, shirts and blouses with cargo pockets. Amongst the key details are the patches adorning the jeans and jackets. The uber-colourful line, which draws as much from pop-art as pyschedelia, will be available until Spring/Summer 2018. It will be manufactured in Italy and Turkey.
The line was in fact launch…