THE DAILY FIX: FASHION INDUSTRY NEWS THURS

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JET BEATS WALMART AND AMAZON ON LAUNCH DAY – RetailingToday
“A pricing analysis conducted by e-commerce intelligence provider Profitero looked at 16,028 identical items across seven categories on Jet.com, Amazon.com and Walmart.com. The firm determined that on exactly-matched products, Jet.com was priced an average of 9% lower than Amazon.com and 6% lower than Walmart.com. Jet.com’s pricing was slightly closer to its competitors in higher-priced categories. The analysis was conducted on July 21, the date of Jet.com’s official launch.”

BEFORE TOPSHOP AND H&M, THERE WAS FIORUCCI, THE STORE THAT TAUGHT ME HOW TO SHOP – LA Times
“Fiorucci taught me how to shop as a teenager in the 1980s. The New York boutique, which opened in 1976 just across the street from Bloomingdale’s in midtown Manhattan, was not only a store, it was a hangout and pop-culture crossroads in the grand tradition of Biba and Granny Takes a Trip in London.”

NOW THE REAL REAL CAN PAY YOU IN NEIMAN MARCUS CREDIT – Forbes
“Luxury online and mobile reseller The Real Real announced today that it has partnered with Neiman Marcus: Now when you sell that once-loved Celine bag, you can turn around and use Neiman Marcus credit to buy one that’s currently loved. The best part is when you choose the credit option, you get an extra 10% added onto your amount.”

DISTRESSED DENIM: LEVI’S TRIES TO ADAPT TO THE YOGA PANTS ERA – Bloomberg
“At the foot of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, in a renovated grain mill with soaring ceilings and wooden beams, Bart Sights is refining his recipes for denim. In his hands, stained dark blue from day after day of plunging fabric into buckets of indigo dye, he holds a list of steps for creating a particularly vexing style: women’s skinny jeans. Most such jeans contain so much synthetic fiber they appear slick, cheap, and unlike real denim. Sights has been searching for a way to give the fabric just the right amount of stretch, in just the right places—enough to flatter the figure, but not so much that they stop looking like jeans.”

TARGET BLASTED FOR SELLING ‘TROPHY’ T-SHIRT FOR WOMEN; IS IT PC? – LA Times
“Is it sexist for Target to sell a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Trophy?” Some in the Twitterverse think so and are blasting the retailer for objectifying women. But others say the backlash is political correctness run amok, and that the T-shirts are fun — and maybe even empowering. “Women aren’t objects,” according to one tweet opposing the T-shirts. For its part, Target reps say the shirts are all in good fun — and popular with customers.”