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Margin meets merit
Commercial realities in 2026 show Indian consumers as discerning value-maximisers. While the global fashion industry stagnates at 3 per cent growth, India’s ...
6 April 2026, Mumbai
The Indian activewear landscape is witnessing a structural shift as homegrown labels challenge global incumbents through manufacturing self-reliance. Bengaluru-based performance ...
... areas by 15 per cent in volume growth. Goyal’s immediate mandate involves optimizing the working capital cycles for high-turnover value fashion categories and securing the credit lines necessary to support ...
1 April 2026, Mumbai
India’s fashion industry is in a phase where it’s moving beyond the binaries of heritage versus modernity, into a more sophisticated, systems-driven commercial model. The emergence ...
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Shortening inventory cycle from 120 to 15 days
While global fast-fashion giants typically operate on 60-to-120-day inventory cycles, Littlebox India has reduced its design-to-door timeline to ...
19 March 2026, Mumbai
The Gulf’s retail economy is entering a new phase of consolidation and sophistication, and Indian fashion brands are no longer content to participate from the margins. What began ...
... the premium fashion bracket.
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India’s premier value-fashion infrastructure
V-Mart is the leading value-fashion retailer in India, managing a 550-store network across 25 states. Specializing ...
04 March 2026, Mumbai
The contemporary youth-focused fashion label of Trent Ltd, Burnt Toast aims to capture the growing youth fashion market in Pune by expanding its retail presence.
The brand is ...
... in the grocery segment, the primary objective for this fiscal year is the integration of high-margin lifestyle categories. This transition aligns with industry data suggesting that the quick-commerce fashion ...
28 February 2026, Mumbai
As India’s luxury fashion market enters a decisive growth phase - projected to cross $14.5 billion in 2026 - Aza Fashions is leveraging two decades of market dominance to redefine ...
https://www.dfupublications.com/index.php/component/search/?searchword=fast%20fashion&searchphrase=all&Itemid=21625 February 2026, Mumbai
For more than a decade, venture money, marketing budgets and ...
24 February 2026, Mumbai
Arvind Fashions Limited (AFL) has strategically reinforced its dominance in the premium casualwear segment with the launch of a new U.S. Polo Assn. (USPA) flagship store in Kankarbagh, ...
19 February 2026, Mumbai
Value fashion powerhouse Citykart has officially entered the Rajasthan market, inaugurating its first-ever flagship in Udaipur as a part of a three-store blitz that also included ...
... in Erode. Following a high-profile investor meet on February 11, 2026, the development has secured interest from major national conglomerates including Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, Reliance Group, and ...
... fashion landscape and the artisan economy.
Industry leaders characterize this as a "structural shift" to modernize traditional manufacturing while ensuring rural inclusion. Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman ...
23 January 2026, Mumbai
For Indian fashion and apparel companies seeking to transition from domestic champions to global contenders, Dubai has emerged as the most consequential overseas market.
It ...
17 January 2026, Mumbai
Celebrating three decades in the fashion industry, ace couturier Tarun Tahiliani is executing a high-velocity expansion strategy to transition his brand from a studio-led model ...
09 January 2026, Mumbai
The shift from fast fashion to handcrafted heirlooms is no longer just a mood, it is materialising in numbers that suggest a redefining moment in the global consumption economy. ...
... the next 12 months of retail disruption.
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As the curtain falls on 2025, the Indian fashion and apparel industry has moved beyond the point of "observing" Gen Z; it has been fundamentally ...
01 January 2025, Mumbai
As part of our definitive annual series, "Wrap Up 2025, Outlook 2026," this feature explores the structural convergence of India’s digital and physical fashion ecosystems.
The ...