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Premiata unveils its new digital ecosystem with Drop + Playground
To launch its SS26 Apparel Collection, the brand is ushering in a new phase of its journey with a platform that combines storytelling, editorial content, an immersive user experience, and integrated headless technology.
Every euro generates 5.6. And ‘Made in Italy’ is going digital
The Netcomm-Nomisma study puts the value of digital commerce for Italy at 993 billion and the multiplier for every euro spent online at 5.6. For shoe and handbag manufacturers, the key issue is exports: these are growing by 9 per cent – three times the overall rate – but the sector is held back by businesses’ lack of digital maturity.
‘The New Retail Culture’: the rise of the Lifestyle Curator Buyer
Curated and moderated by Orietta Pelizzari, Global Macro-Trend Forecaster, the international summit focused on the transformation of the retail outlet into a cultural hub and the emergence of a new professional role.
It’s not just about new dates: MOMAD focuses on selection, quality, and forecasting
The Madrid trade fair is bringing the event forward to make purchasing decisions easier, moving the dates to 23–25 July. With a more streamlined and focused format, explains director Julia González, it aims to offer greater operational flexibility and a collection planning schedule in line with new global consumption cycles.
Personalisation, omnichannel retailing and customer experience
The Retail Forum 2025 highlighted the most advanced trends in Fashion Tech and the transformation of the fashion industry.
70% of Italian Fashion & Beauty buyers are omnichannel
NetRetail Fashion 2025, Netcomm/Veepee shows how digital drives the transformation of the sector. Over 33 million people buy Fashion&Beauty
Wholesale and Offline are alive!
Contrary to the post-pandemic forecasts, physical retail and multi-brand stores have not died and are living with online shopping and digital platforms: these were the conclusions of the summit The Future of Retail by Fashion Magazine.
The future of project design passes through active customer listening
The start-up i²d has developed a solution that helps optimise products, services and market performance by collecting voice feedback via digital and physical touchpoints and transforming this data into actionable insights using its proprietary InsightGPT software.
Synergies and growth for PittaRosso and Scarpe&Scarpe
The aggregation of the two market leaders, with a turnover of 480 million and 300 shops, will generate synergies and value for all stakeholders.
Tymely, the AI agent for customer service
It is the American startup that has won the 2024 summer edition of the Startup Competition, the contest organised by Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags as part of its ‘fair within a fair’ dedicated to innovation in the retail sector, the Innovation Village Retail.
Positive signs on the horizon for German retail
According to a World Footwear by APICCAPS study last June, retail sales of shoes in January and February exceeded overall sales, although they remain lower than the same period last year, and consumer and retailer sentiment is improving.
“How much energy at Expo Riva Schuh”
At ERS, the buyers of Berner, Berner is a Finnish family company established in 1883 with 4 business areas (Consumer Goods, included the footwear sector with the brands Nokian Footwear and Hai), Medical/Laboratories, Industries, Agricultural trade) and subsidiaries in Finland, Sweden, Norway Denmark and the Baltics.
The balance point
There, it was exactly at that moment, that I discovered the im- portance of storytelling understood as history, creativity, art and imagination.
Emerging Talents Milan
Every season, luxury accessories are presented. Mostly limited-edition products with timeless appeal, under the banner of zero-waste sustainability concepts. Here is a small but valuable selection of emerging talents.
