In the world of online resale, Facebook Marketplace is often overlooked amid the plethora of other platforms focused on distanced selling, but Marketplace is a hugely popular platform for the trading of secondhand goods — particularly for deals done locally. In fact, every day, one of out every four of Facebook’s 250 million daily active…
When the British handbag maker Mulberry re-released the Roxanne in September, customers were just as eager to buy the handbag as they were two decades ago. That was no surprise to the brand, which had been tracking rising interest in the bag on Mulberry Exchange, the secondhand marketplace it operates. Between the new and vintage…
Ebay and publisher Condé Nast have entered a multi-year partnership aimed at accelerating the movement toward pre-loved and circular fashion. Ebay will now serve as the official Pre-Loved Partner of Condé Nast in an initiative that will span the Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, Teen Vogue and Glamour publications in the U.S., UK and Germany. The…
Vestiaire Collective said it is the first pre-owned fashion business to monetize its avoided emissions into measurable and additional carbon credits. The company’s new approach involves issuing credits that quantify the amount of emissions that were prevented from being used when consumers purchased pre-loved fashion instead of buying new. The initiative highlights the measurable environmental…
A vintage reseller from Wisconsin has shared how she accidentally sold a designer dress worth thousands for just $135. Hannah, 22, has been reselling vintage fashion since she was 17. But one recent sale on a live auction platform quickly turned into what she called “the worst mistake of my life.” “I started the item…
Ebay will be back on the runway this Fashion Month following its 2024 debut. This year, Ebay is upping the ante with a series of partnerships with top fashion designers, including Erdem, Luar, Altuzarra, Kallmeyer and Ahluwalia, which will incorporate pre-loved pieces from previous years into their Spring/Summer 2026 (SS26) collections. The partnerships — developed…
As fashion continues to evolve under the pressures of rapid digitization, changing consumer behaviors and preferences, and global regulatory reform, the legal frameworks that govern the industry are being tested and redefined. From intellectual property protection in the age of AI-generated design to the rise of resale and rework culture, the legal issues shaping fashion…
During the first half of this year, a number of developments in existing fashion, retail, and tech lawsuits stood out in the crowded landscape of litigation because they indicate larger trends within these spaces and underscore issues worth keeping an eye on during the rest of 2025. Among these are developments in a number of…
Israel-based e-commerce and AI-driven apparel-sizing firm MySize aims to expand its reach in fashion resale and up its circularity profile with the acquisition of European second-hand fashion marketplace Percentil. Percentil was founded in Spain to promote second-hand fast fashion from brands such as Zara, Mango and Massimo Dutti. The retailer filed for bankruptcy in February,…
In the past month, global fashion brands have been scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs. Production and material costs quickly spiked for independent brands, suppliers in established garment manufacturing countries saw orders paused or cancelled, and share prices slumped across the industry. As fashion reeled over rising prices, many looked…