Here are a few of this week’s information and options highlights handpicked by TheIndustry.vogue workforce.
M&S cements vogue credibility with 16Arlington collaboration
Designer excessive avenue collaborations could also be acquainted territory, however few have felt as well timed for get together season as Marks & Spencer’s new partnership with 16Arlington. The 43-piece capsule, which landed this week, sees the heritage retailer proceed its assured ascent in vogue credibility, bringing the London label’s distinctive glamour to the excessive avenue for the primary time.
16Arlington’s daring, sculptural aesthetic – assume feathers, embellishment, and sculptural tailoring – meets M&S’s refined, high quality-pushed sensibility in a set that feels elevated but accessible. From crystal-draped robes to brushed cashmere knits, the items supply prospects a style of designer drama with out compromising on wearability.
For me, what’s notably attention-grabbing is the timing. M&S’s 16Arlington collaboration dropped on the exact same day as H&M’s excessive-profile partnership with Glenn Martens, a designer synonymous with avant-garde, conceptual vogue.
It’s a daring transfer from the British retailer, one which quietly indicators how far the retailer’s vogue credentials have come. After years of holding tempo with excessive avenue vogue, M&S is now setting its personal vogue agenda. By launching facet by facet with a worldwide vogue large like H&M, it has positioned itself firmly inside the identical cultural dialog. This would possibly simply verify that M&S is a critical contender the place excessive avenue vogue is worried.
Chloé Burney, Senior News & Features Writer.
More Brits to buy second-hand vogue this Christmas as spend on luxurious labels drops
Consumers are approaching Christmas procuring with a deal with worth and sustainability, more and more favouring second-hand vogue over luxurious manufacturers. Cardlytics’ State of Spend: The Golden Quarter report, based mostly on knowledge from 23 million UK financial institution accounts and Opinium analysis, exhibits on-line quick vogue progress slowing from 22.7% in 2023 to 14.7% in 2024, excessive avenue vogue rising 3.6%, and luxurious spending dropping 18.7%. Nearly a 3rd of customers plan to make use of marketplaces, and 18% intend to purchase second-hand, signalling resale is now mainstream.
Shoppers are mixing worth factors, platforms, and codecs, prioritising practicality, sustainability, and worth over model loyalty. Gifting is turning into extra selective, with 53% selecting private or sensible presents and solely 11% shopping for luxurious items.
Single-day occasions like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are dropping influence, with spending spreading throughout the weekends and promotional home windows. In 2024, the Saturday after Black Friday noticed a 27% rise in spend, and practically a 3rd of shoppers plan to complete festive procuring earlier than Black Friday.
Overall, spending is extra thought of and distributed throughout the season. Retailers that have interaction customers all through the festive interval quite than counting on brief-time period promotions are more likely to carry out finest, with progress in resale, magnificence, and low cost grocery, whereas luxurious vogue and division retailer spend continues to fall. Read extra right here.
Sophie Smith, News Editor & Senior Writer.
ASOS to launch ‘premium’ pop-up on London’s Carnaby Street
Intriguing to see that on-line vogue and magnificence vacation spot ASOS is heading to 10 Carnaby Street from 7–16 November with a uncommon pop-up store showcasing over 200 items from its extra premium supply.
However brief-lived it could be, it’s positive to create fairly a stir at a key buying and selling time and little question enhance on-line gross sales too, as all 200+ items can even function in a devoted web site store as effectively – for these ASOS followers who can’t make it to London.
Having a bodily area the place prospects can really strive on items they just like the look of ‘in the flesh’, so to talk, must also lower a good quantity of returns too (although within the grand scheme of issues, it received’t make a lot of a dent within the quantity of returns ASOS has to cope with every day!).
Spanning partywear, assertion chilly-climate items, magnificence ‘heroes’ and gifting choices, prospects can even have the ability to strive on outfits from the newly launched premium menswear line, ASOS Collective, the elevated ARRANGE assortment, and the newest edits from Topshop and Topman.
Not solely that, there can even be a handpicked choice from main accomplice manufacturers resembling Good American, Carhartt WIP and AllSaints, in addition to the second drop of the unique Adidas x ASOS collaboration.
On the wonder entrance, the area will highlight Face + Body favourites from manufacturers together with Charlotte Tilbury, Medicube, Ouai and Bubble, with Face + Body goody baggage handed out to at least one in each ten prospects. Quite how that may work out, I’m unsure – however I assume a system will probably be in place. Good luck to the one in ten!
Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor.
Topshop makes shock early return to excessive avenue with John Lewis pop-ups
Surprise! Topshop’s partnership with John Lewis is beginning prior to we first thought. After years of on-line-solely existence underneath ASOS’s wing, the as soon as-dominant excessive avenue icon is lastly stepping again into bodily retail with a shock sequence of pop-ups throughout 4 John Lewis shops, forward of a full-scale rollout in early 2026.
As somebody whose teen years have been typified by Topshop’s Oxford Circus heyday, this comeback feels each nostalgic and strategic.
Starting 3 November, the pop-ups in Oxford Street, Bristol, Leeds, and Liverpool will reintroduce the model by means of a curated edit of about 30 items, refreshed weekly. It’s intelligent timing because the festive season is approaching, which is in fact when vogue retail thrives.
The full-scale relaunch subsequent February will see Topshop in 32 John Lewis shops nationwide, with Topman in six, marking one of the crucial vital excessive avenue resurrections of latest years. ASOS’s digital dominance meets John Lewis’s bodily belief – a fusion that would set a precedent for different on-line-first manufacturers in search of tangible buyer connection.
For now, the pop-ups supply a glimpse of the Topshop to come back, simply with an additional dose of sparkle for the season.
Chloé Burney, Senior News & Features Writer.