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With rising competition to acquire and retain customers online, digitally native start-ups are determining how to strike a balance between developing their own e-commerce features in-house and partnering with external software providers.

After generative AI’s breakout year in 2023, The State of Fashion 2024 examines emerging use cases across creative industries, including fashion.

Growing demand for lookalike products, coupled with a pullback in spending due to inflation, is cutting in to sales of some trendy, big-name products.

While job losses aren’t happening at the same pace as in Silicon Valley, retailers facing slowing demand and rising operating costs are starting to make cuts.

Tools and services are helping fashion and beauty industries stem the billions of dollars they reportedly lose due to abandoned carts by taking the friction out of the checkout stage, online and off.

Over the past year, Shopify and BoF brought together fashion industry leaders to discuss their learnings, opportunities and challenges they face in a series of roundtables. Now, BoF shares the most actionable insights that emerged with its community.

In Paris, Shopify and BoF gathered executives from Jacquemus, Coperni, Isabel Marant, Patou, Giambattista Valli, Marine Serre, Paco Rabanne, Ami, Vestiaire Collective and Early Majority to discuss the strategic imperatives required to navigate the uncertain socio-economic environment, and reimagine how the industry operates.

BoF and Shopify gathered executives from across the Italian industry to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Italy’s fashion market and manufacturing as the acquisition of independent suppliers intensifies, prices rise and consumer sentiment evolves.

Surging online sales during the pandemic have touched off a similarly massive wave of returns. Here’s how some brands are handling the deluge.

Throughout 2021, Shopify and BoF connected leading retail executives to share their challenges and discuss finding opportunity in disruption in a series of roundtables. Now, BoF shares the most actionable insights that emerged with its community.