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DEEP DIVE: Fashion Re-Commerce Evolution

The marketplace for online fashion resale continues to evolve rapidly. Following an initial wave of online fashion consignment startups, weaker players have gone out of business and stronger players have grown and attracted more investment funding to propel their further growth.

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Global Retail Reinvented (Bloomberg)

The Art of Decluttering
• The typical American wardrobe has 120
items today vs 36 items in 1930.
• 80% of them are unworn.
• Marie Kondo’s “the Life Changing
Magic of Tidying Up” brought
minimalism to the mainstream.
• Cladwell helps consumers create a
minimalist wardrobe.

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Australian Apparel Market Primer

Australian retailers are relatively positive about their prospects for 2017. In Deloitte’s most recent Retailers’ Christmas Survey,
64% of respondents are expecting their earnings to increase by 5% or more in 2017, with such levels of optimism at their
highest since we started this survey five years ago. However, this optimism needs to be tempered somewhat with realities of the
macro-economic outlook. The ‘wealth-factor’ arising from appreciating house prices that has buoyed parts of the market is
starting to slow down, whilst we continue to see low wage growth. Against this background, the retail environment in Australia
is likely to remain challenging, particularly with the continued influx and expansion of global retailers in Australia.

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Paris—The Third Largest European Startup Hub

This is the third report in our series on European startup capitals. Paris is a leading startup hub globally and is the third-largest European center for startup development. The main factors that make Paris one of the top startup hubs include:

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