fashion cycle Archives - Third Eyesight

Erratic winter puts clothing retailers on thin ice for a second straight year

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Vaeshnavi Kasthuril, Mint Bengaluru, 11 February 2026 Sales of winter wear were underwhelming for the second year in a row as an unusually delayed and milder winter disrupted demand for heavy winter wear, particularly in north and west India, executives at two of India’s top clothing retailers said. Initial optimism for a bumper season this […]

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India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 16:30:00 +0000

By Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya, Rest of World Mumbai, India, 23 May 2025 Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction in a market where Amazon and Walmart have been fighting neck-to-neck […]

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India bets big on zero-waste fashion

admin — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:26:00 +0000

Chitra Narayanan, BusinessLine New Delhi, 23 February 2025 India’s formidable array of craft traditions got full play at the just concluded Bharat Tex 2025, the mega textile trade show in New Delhi that showcased the best of Indian weaves to the world. But if there was one theme that dominated this year’s textile extravaganza, aimed […]

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Fashion 2024 & Beyond: Adapting to Changing Innovation Dynamics (VIDEO)

admin — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:05:00 +0000

The ability of fashion businesses to endure and thrive in the face of stiff competition and changing market dynamics is all about adapting to innovation, customer-centricity, and strategic planning. The correlation between high performing fashion business and product innovation is undeniable. This panel discussion brings Design and Business Heads together to brainstorm on how fashion […]

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Fashion is Dead: A Zombie Business (VIDEO)

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:27:00 +0000

“Fashion is a zombie business. It is dead and it doesn’t know it yet,” says Devangshu Dutta, Founder of Third Eyesight, a specialist management consulting firm. This is a must-watch excerpt from a presentation and panel discussion anchored by Devangshu Dutta on 27 March 2019 at the India Fashion Forum, in Mumbai. The challenge he […]

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Who Wants Sustainable Fashion?

Devangshu Dutta — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:53:22 +0000

Fashion, by its very nature, lives on obsolescence, so it is pertinent to ask whether “sustainable fashion” is an oxymoron.
The cause of sustainability may be helped actually by the fragmentation of demand that is going on around the world. The traditional fashion business model and supply chain can’t cope effectively with the fragmented demand and short selling-windows. In the fast fashion supply chain model, with shorter lead times, more time is spent on productive activities and successful products, rather than wasting resources and money in developing designs and flying samples back and forth for products that will get sold at a discount.
The aerospace, automotive and high-tech industries use tools and processes that have also been available to the fashion industry for the last 4 decades. If fashion companies honestly examine how expensive its waste is, we might start moving towards more sustainable fashion. (More...)

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Creating & Managing Lifestyle and Fashion Brands – Third Eyesight Knowledge Series© Workshop – 23 August 2008, New Delhi, India

admin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:47:38 +0000

Third Eyesight's next workshop in the Knowledge Series© is focussed on Creating & Managing Lifestyle and Fashion Brands.
This workshop will be useful to you, if you are: a brand owner wanting to look at growing your scale, a manufacturer wanting to add value to your products and to gain additional margins, a brand manager looking to expand the footprint of your brand over more products, an entrepreneur wanting to launch a new brand, an investor who wants to understand how brands create value, an exporter or buying office professional wanting to understand your customers and markets better, a brand owner and believe that your business is undervalued, a designer wanting to scale the business beyond yourself, a service provider working with the lifestyle and fashion sector, a marketing or sales professional looking to add value to your skill-base, or a teacher or researcher looking at understanding the process of brand development.

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History repeats – India’s role in global fashion

Sharmila Katre — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:04 +0000

In product design terms, India has moved on from producing and selling ‘fashion basics’ to ‘basic’ merchandise to ‘fashion basics’ once again. History says that this is where India's inherent talents and strengths as a source market lie. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it should should cash in on its strengths to practice and master fast fashion.

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Brand Building – Context, Consistency and Constancy (Time) – LEGO® Turns 50

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:19:28 +0000

From a simple tower to human-sized figures of cartoon characters – we’ve seen a whole range of creative expression using a simple plastic brick. (Well, to be accurate, a wide variety of plastic bricks – but all developed around the same principle.) An icon in a child’s world, the LEGO ® brick has just turned […]

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Welcome to Third Eyesight’s Blog

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:44:15 +0000

Thanks for visiting Third Eyesight’s blog. We hope you will find information here that will be useful for you in your business or for your studies. Please share the blog links with your friends, co-workers and business associates: you can use the social bookmarking tools, or just copy and paste the URL from the address […]

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