Lady Katharine ‘Kitty’ Spencer
The British fashion model got married to her boyfriend of two years, billionaire fashion tycoon Michael Lewis in Italy and she looked flawless in a Dolce and Gabbana wedding dress.
What Fashion Resale Can Learn from Cars and Consumer Electronics | BoF Professional, News & Analysis
There is little doubt that fashion resale is heating up. ThredUp’s July acquisition of Remix and Etsy’s acquisition of Depop the month before underscore the growing momentum in the space and the increasing size and scale of the players aiming to seize the opportunity.
Since 2019, the market has seen at least 4 IPOs, 13 major new entrants (e.g. platform launches or companies directly entering resale), 14 major brand and retailer partnerships and 6 Resale-as-a-Service start-up launches, according to The Future of Fashion Resale, a report by BoF Insights, a new data and analysis unit at The Business of Fashion.
Yet for all of this recent activity, there is still significant potential upside for secondhand fashion, especially as BoF Insights estimates that only approximately 5-7 percent of resaleable fashion inventory is actually resold around the world today.
Fashion resale might still be in its infancy. But as brands and retailers