Up Close With Afterpay Australian Fashion Week Resort '24 Collections

In the face of economic uncertainty and market saturation in the fashion industry, businesses are seeking diversification to drive growth. Even Direct-to-Consumer brands are embracing an omnichannel approach, including wholesale. However, running a successful wholesale business presents challenges in terms of finances and payment processing. Now, JOOR—the world's premier wholesale management ecosystem—offers anembedded payment solution, JOOR Pay. With a vast network of 14,000 brands and 590,000 buyers across 150 countries, JOOR provides invaluable insight and tools for running a thriving wholesale business.

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Welcome to the highly anticipated Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2023! Coinciding with this renowned fashion event, AAFW brings together the finest designers from the Asia Pacific region, showcasing their exquisite resort collections and solidifying AAFW's position as the leading fashion extravaganza in this part of the world. All on JOOR Passport.

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After years of restrictions, fashion tradeshows are making a comeback. Brands are eager to showcase their collections to a wider audience, and buyers are looking to spot the new trends. And both are seeking the best ways to optimize the tradeshow experience. JOOR is the all-in-one digital solution for in-person and tradeshow appointments. 

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Now is the time to maximize your business strategy by digitalizing your wholesale process. Here’s your 4-point checklist for choosing the right digital platform. This post will share the key features and functions to consider when searching for your best B2B digital wholesale solution.

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To kick off this series, let’s chat about chasing payments. Time spent chasing payments and collecting payment information is among the leading pain points our brands are facing today. Having to constantly reach out and get permission to run a payment or receive updated payment information when a card declines takes valuable time away from running your wholesale business efficiently. 

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What can AI do for the wholesale fashion industry? More than you’d think. In fact, it already does: AI powers search engines, smart tagging, and logistics for fashion brands and retailers all around the world. Generative AI is the next step in the chain.

We’ve revamped our Find New Brands page to make it easier to discover top-selling brands. Easily search for the brands you know or use intuitive filters to discover new brands. Stay up-to-date with your latest connection requests and unread messages through our new notification icons pinned to your top navigation bar. 

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When it comes to selling your brand, wholesale isn’t an obstacle, it’s an opportunity. You can boost brand awareness, grow your audience, and increase your margins by making wholesale part of your distribution strategy. 

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Another successful fashion month has graced runways and screens around the world and we’re enamored with the gorgeous results—inspirational fits and fabrications that evoke feelings of sophistication, modernity, and even playfulness, pictured below on some iconic JOOR brands. From the red hot color of the season to elegantly elongated silhouettes, designers and brands have once again wowed us with their sartorial interpretations of this season’s most dominant trends, which we’re thrilled to bring to you in our Women’s Fall 2023 Fashion Trend Report.

Discover Canada’s most promising new talent and their original collections on Showroom Canada, which runs on JOOR Passport through March 31.

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Factoring can help businesses improve their cash flow, but not all factoring arrangement are created equal. JOOR Pay lessens the administrative burden on sellers, while seamlessly converting funds into 135 currencies used worldwide.

See the full article for more details about how JOOR Pay can increase your cash flow and help your business.

We've gathered feedback from our extensive network of brands and retailers around the globe to provide insight into their plans for the spring market season. Did you know that 77% of brands have achieved sales volumes flat or greater than this time last year and that 64% of buyers have an equal or larger open-to-buy budget for Fall 2023? 

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JOOR’s success is based on the success of our clients, and we are so proud to have seen our brands and retailers thrive this past year. From making 340,000 new connections to placing 1.6M orders, JOOR is being leveraged to drive business growth. We look forward to continuing to innovate the digital wholesale buying process in 2023!

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From Florence to Berlin to Paris, men’s fashion made a splash this season, reinventing the classics and giving consumers wardrobe-building basics. Gone is the reign of streetwear and logos. During the Fall 2023 Menswear season, we saw new trends emerge that are sure to excite both retail buyers and consumers.  Be sure to check out our Fall 2023 Men’s Fashion Trend Report to learn more.

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Make 2023 the year to shore up your technological foundation. Invest in a platform that connects you with customers worldwide, facilitates both physical and virtual buying and selling, and optimizes your assortment planning.

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JOOR for Buyers is the perfect companion to JOOR’s Pro Retail web experience, allowing buyers to shop linesheets and create orders from any location. This new app will transform your buyer experience. Get ready to enjoy a simple, yet powerful mobile buying process with new features that are specifically curated to support your on-the-go buying needs.

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JOOR is committed to transforming the wholesale fashion industry – and we have the awards to prove it! We’re pleased and proud to share that our dedication to service and technology has earned us international recognition from notable industry organizations around the world.

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Prepare your business for the year ahead by reading our data-driven report “Top Industry Trends That Will Shape Wholesale in 2023”. JOOR’s vast global network and huge volume of transaction data provide unique insight into critical factors affecting wholesale business. From how to navigate economic instability to the increasing fluidity of market seasons, this report highlights the five key trends which will take hold in the coming year.

Gaâla, a sustainable luxury fashion brand, pairs vintage silhouettes with a modern design sensibility. Made solely from deadstock and remnants, each piece is long-wearing and exclusive. “Gaâla’s apparel is unique,” says Kelly de Gaalon, co-founder of Gaâla. “We combine the nostalgia of time-honored silhouettes with contemporary designs for the modern yet feminine woman.” 

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There’s more fluidity to the market season than ever before. 39% of brands are lengthening their selling window as retailers extend their buying periods. Discover what this means for your inventory.

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ORDRE’s advanced ORB360° image technology is a solution for both brands and retailers. “The beauty of using a complete digital system is that the images it produces can be used anywhere along the chain: from B2B to B2C to social media,” says Lock. “It’s a one-stop reservoir of digital images that can be used right through the promotional supply chain.”

Rangel was born in a spirit of reasonless, timeless and streamlined resort fashion. Founded in 2021 by creative director Isabel Grutman, the namesake ready to wear line focuses on sportive separates with elevated fabrication and warm-weather magnetics. 

With JOOR Pay, we’re providing brands with the opportunity to offer their qualified buyers 60-day net terms at no upfront cost to the brand. This means a retailer has up to 60-days to pay their total invoice, while the brand receives their payment immediately. When buyers eventually pay off the net terms at day 60, the full amount is returned to their available balance and they can continue to pay for more orders using the buy now, pay later structure. It’s a service we’re proud to offer because it improves the cash flow for both our clients and their buyers.   Making their lives easier and helping their businesses grow is a top priority at JOOR.

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WeAr, the leading global B2B magazine for fashion & footwear, has partnered with JOOR, the world’s premier wholesale management ecosystem, to bring you the inaugural BeFAB Awards—honoring exceptional design and entrepreneurship in the global fashion industry.

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Fashion month has officially come to an end. From New York to Paris, it is exciting to see the new directions that designers are taking this season, as well as how they are reinventing the classics. With so many shows, it is hard to keep track of all the wonderful pieces, but not to worry—we’re on the front line and are bringing you the key trends that came out of the Spring/Summer 2023 collections.

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Read up on how the hybrid approach continues to grow, key themes buyers are searching for, the post-pandemic bounce back, and more! Make educated decisions and see how brands and retailers are approaching the fall market season.

Tom Konz, or TK as we call him around the office, joined the JOOR team over a year ago and with his arrival came a flurry of excitement around the fintech space. We’ve asked him to share his experience in and around the finance industry and the announcement of our revolutionary new payments solution, JOOR Pay.

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Are you familiar with our industry-leading tech partners, VNTANA, iStaging, and ORDRE? We’ve assembled this team of experts to help bring our clients a dynamic new way to bring their collections to life—the use of 2D, 3D, and augmented reality helps create the most life-like product renderings to share with retailers. Looking to reduce or eliminate your physical sampling needs? They can help with that too. 

Did you know that JOOR Pay, our brand new embedded payment solution, is now available to all JOOR clients? It’s true. JOOR Pay helps our brands receive faster payouts, save on payment costs, simplify foreign transactions, protect themselves from fraud, and outsource payments function and compliance—all for one fixed cost per transaction.

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Your JOOR Virtual Showroom is an extension of your brand, a fully customized B2B site where retailers can shop 24/7 from anywhere in the world. To help support confident buying, we’ve enlisted a powerful team of technology partners to provide captivating tools like 360° imagery and video to portray your collections with like-like detail (plus there are additional benefits like the use of this advanced imagery on your own B2C site).

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This August we renewed our exclusive partnership for the SS23 selling season with the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF), the longest-running fashion trade fair in northern Europe. International buyers visiting the Copenhagen show can immerse themselves in all the trends and SS23 collections both in real life and online through JOOR Passport. Check out the JOOR booth as well as some of the exciting trends we saw while we were there.

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We’re thrilled to share some of our favorite trends from Hammock and Miami Swim Week. Hammock continues to bring the finest of designs and experiences to South Beach connecting an audience of renowned global retailers with an internationally recognized and curated selection of emerging and established brands showing swimwear, resort wear, and accessories.

We recently sat down with our Director of Marketing in EMEA, Nico, to learn more about his career in the tech industry and passion for fashion. Read more to get to know Nico and hear his thoughts on how tech can make the industry more sustainable and transparent.

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As the costs of advertising in tradition media outlets continues to rise, social media marketing is the viable alternative for young fashion brands. Building a social media content strategy is the key to your success.

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Our powerful digital wholesale platform offers emerging designers a powerful tool to help grow their brand. Patrick Cupid, named ‘One to Watch’ by Industry. Fashion, shares his success story in our latest blog.

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We recently hosted a highly informative webinar, “Revolutionizing Retail—How Digital and AI are Transforming the Industry” featuring JOOR CEO Kristin Savilia and Lily AI CEO Purva Gupta. 

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The best of both worlds. That’s how we would describe JOOR’s integration with Shopify, if we had to sum it up in one sentence. Don’t be fooled by integrations that claim to be built from scratch and thus superior, as we’re confident that our approach suits the gamut of our clients’ needs.

Thank you for joining us at Pitti Immagine, the world’s most important platform for men’s clothing and accessory collections. We were delighted to have been a part of it and showcase our premiere B2B platform and global ecosystem.

Sustainability isn’t just an ethical decision, it’s also sound business strategy. Today’s customers pay careful attention to the environmental impact of their purchases – smart brands are following suit. For more details, read our latest blog.

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Through our exclusive partnership with ORDRE, we’re so excited to share exciting new updates that will benefit not only your B2B business but your B2C business as well.

We recently sat down with our unofficial style guru and official VP of brand and retail, Alan, to get his take on the streetwear industry and how its future will be influenced by the ever-evolving metaverse.

We’ve compiled data straight from our clients and are thrilled to share their feedback on how digitalization has changed and improved their business. Download the report today!

Imagine the traditional wholesale process, with all the added benefits of an upgrade to our current vastly virtual environment. That’s digital wholesale, B2B buying and selling through the medium of an advanced virtual platform. It represents a unique opportunity for brands and retailers to connect, collaborate, and conduct business all online.

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The fashion industry is already playing a key role in the metaverse. Fashion lovers now have the option to dress up their avatars, and brands the ability to host virtual fashion shows. With the expanding metaverse, this is only just the beginning for the fashion industry. Keep reading to learn with the metaverse means to fashion.

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Coming off the heels of NYFW: Bridal Fashion Week, we’re thrilled to share some trend insight we gleaned from the amazing brands who presented. From playful colors and textures to sexy cutouts, the busiest year of weddings since 1984 is going to be a visual extravaganza.

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Long gone are the days of retailers having to manually tag products within their assortments—automating the attribution process allows products to be tagged quickly and accurately. Thanks to our tech partner Lily AI, retailers will now have access to AI technology to tag products within an assortment with terms from the retailer’s taxonomy.

Since its inception in 2020, JOOR Passport is notorious for bringing renowned and emerging fashion from all around the world to the comfort of your home or office. To date, JOOR Passport has hosted more than 60 global events, attracting over 315K retail visitors from 153 countries. Today, we’re spotlighting our latest curated virtual marketplace, French Fashion Corner. Discover French brands and designers that will give your wholesale collection that extra, ‘je ne sais quois.’ 

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Looking to sharpen your JOOR aptitude? Page through our handy glossary and familiarize yourself with the terms and phrases we use everyday here at JOOR. While you’re at it, make sure you’re taking advantage of all the exciting products and innovations we have to offer. 

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The latest trends from London Fashion Week. Each participant has been carefully curated, serving a purpose beyond style. Prepare for the coming season and start shopping now on JOOR’s Passport virtual marketplace. 

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One of the pillars of our company is providing value to our clients—with tools and services designed to vastly improve their wholesale process—and now, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding this value by offering financial services to both buyers and sellers operating on our platform. With the help of trusted partners, JOOR Capital now provides access to working capital solutions to help businesses grow.

Get to know JOOR’s intuitive platform, expansive network, vast array of services, and more…in a little more than a minute and a half!

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Mark Bergadon is the Global Sales Director of Home at JOOR and today, we're speaking with him to gain his personal insights on the home goods industry, current and upcoming trends, and his exceptional tenured career.

On the eve of New York Fashion Week, starting Friday, February 11, we’re excited to announce our support of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and its new Interim Membership Tier.

We are proudly powering the AW22 digital wholesale business of the following brands on the New York Fashion Week schedule: Michael Kors, Proenza Schouler, Carolina Herrera, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Tory Burch, Jason Wu Collection, Dion Lee, Brandon Maxwell, AREA, Ulla Johnson, Khaite, Altuzarra, Veronica Beard, and Gabriela Hearst.

JOOR's brand interview with Ethical Fashion Initiative sheds light on how to maximize the discoverability of fashion brands from marginalized communities.

We've amassed data from our extensive network of clients to create a comprehensive guide to buying and selling this spring market. Download your copy of the spring market report today!

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Leveraging JOOR technology to increase your brand’s sustainability provides wholesale buyers a smoother, faster, and more responsible experience and helps reduce energy, excess waste, and costs.

We’re thrilled to announce JOOR Passport will power a set of marquee global fashion events for the third consecutive year.

Better understand how JOOR has refined the assortment planning process and helps improve the overall wholesale buying experience.

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We’ve rounded up ways we can help combat supply chain challenges in the new year.

In a time of unprecedented supply uncertainty, JOOR is enabling bridal brands and retailers to connect, collaborate, and place orders digitally from anywhere in the world.

Better prepare your business for the year ahead with JOOR's data-driven trends report.

As more and more brands leverage catalog pages to place orders on JOOR, we work diligently to ensure the experience is as flexible and intuitive as possible.

Check out the updates involved in our latest release below and ensure you’re getting the most out of your JOOR experience. 

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When companies leverage JOOR’s advanced technology partnerships, the entire wholesale ecosystem benefits. From reduced sample production and increased sustainability, to a more accurate and refined shopping experience, JOOR holds the keys to the future of the industry.

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The new site reflects JOOR’s refined platform and product offering as we continue to service brands and retailers across the globe.

Discover all the ways JOOR helps retailers work smarter, swifter, and smoother. From sophisticated searchability to enhanced shopability, JOOR’s innovative features optimize the digital B2B experience to help buyers stay connected, efficient, and in-the-know. 

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There are 13,000+ brands around the world that utilize JOOR’s full-service platform—and many of them are smaller, newer businesses that rely on JOOR to help them grow. Why is JOOR such a great fit for up-and-coming independent brands? With our robust features, endless efficiencies, and a myriad of ways to market, JOOR gives small brands the resources to build their business and fuel growth.

In honor of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, from September 15 to October 15, JOOR is celebrating Spanish and Latinx-owned and operated brands with two exciting Passport shows.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been working hard to deliver innovative product enhancements for our brands to help ensure a successful season. Based on feedback from our customers, we’re introducing a range of improvements designed to help showcase your brand, make new connections, and increase orders.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video equates to an entire lexicon—one that can boost your brand and convert sales.

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The British are coming—and we are here for it.

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Workspace is JOOR’s brand new platform designed to streamline the ordering process, utilizing a more intuitive user experience.

As more retailers and brands rely on digitalized tools for assortment buying and feedback, the need for consistent and searchable data has never been more important. JOOR develops the technology that helps to standardize data for all parties, creating greater efficiency and adding valuable insights to decision making. 

The global pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in the fashion industry, with brands and retailers recognizing the benefits of collaborating through a digital platform. While the predominant way of doing business in Brazil has been rooted in largely manual processes, the country has recognized the need for digital transformation and the opportunity it represents.

Over the course of the past year, the global fashion industry has accelerated its digital adoption. Now as in-person activity returns, a new hybrid business model is emerging - blending the best of physical selling with the efficiency and flexibility of operating virtually. Download the report to see how JOOR brands and buyers are approaching market this season.

Everyone has been yearning for a little post-pandemic makeover, and our retailer homepage is no exception. Based on feedback from our retail partners around the world, we gave this dashboard a major overhaul to create a beautifully designed, easy-to-navigate hub with everything retailers use most right in one place.  Welcome to our new Retail Centre.

The past year resulted in a rapid-fire switch to remote work and digital transactions for many industries, especially fashion and retail. Now with many regions starting to reopen and return to in-person work and travel, companies are asking themselves what the return to normal should look like. 

This past year has been one of constant change - with brands and retailers forging new paths and re-evaluating traditional timelines. Based on this, we did a quick check-in with our clients to see how the industry is preparing for summer market. Here is how JOOR brands and buyers are approaching this season.

JOOR’s new Custom Profile capabilities allow brands to express themselves like never before on a wholesale platform. With numerous row templates and widgets that allow for creative use of text, images, videos, documents, or product insertions, brands have the freedom to craft their profile page as they see fit.

Amidst the many challenges of the past year, our industry demonstrated its flexibility and fortitude - rapidly adjusting ways of doing business and cramming a decade’s worth of digital progress into a matter of months. Set against this landscape, JOOR remained unwaveringly dedicated to listening to the needs of our clients, assisting them in their digital transformation, and developing innovative solutions to drive the industry forward.

One of the most preeminent conversations happening amongst SMB’s in today’s digital age is how and when to bring their wholesale business online. In our recent webinar, fashion business consultant Lisa Metcalfe described the essential role technology plays in successful decision-making from emerging to established businesses.

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For better or worse, lockdown got us used to certain things. Working from home. Streaming opening night movies in fuzzy slippers. And doing absolutely everything conveniently, seamlessly, and most excellently online.

Our Retail 2.0 platform keeps getting better. The new assortment planning experience couples excel-like capabilities with strong visualization tools, enabling buyers to merchandise their buys before finalizing their orders.

In the past year, the fashion industry has proven its resilience and also acknowledged the importance of sustainability as critical to our future.

Wholesale has an inventory problem. And yes we know, that’s not exactly news. Even prior to COVID-19, UBS noted inventory growth for apparel, footwear and accessories had outpaced sales growth for four quarters running -- with many companies bringing in inventory sooner than usual to get ahead of expected tariff increases.

A sustainable fashion industry. Consumers want it, and our planet needs it. But how do brands balance the environmental and ethical demands of a movement so often referred to as ‘slow fashion,’ with consumers’ ever-increasing expectations for speed, personalization, and convenience? Not to mention the intense financial pressures of recovery from the health crisis? Although it might seem counterintuitive, a mainstream sustainable business model can happen. It just requires digital transformation.

The post-pandemic market has become fashion’s new frontier: rife with possibility, but also full of changing business dynamics. Coming off a challenging year, how can brands best minimize their risk and set themselves up for success?  

People often say that art will find a way. But even the most talented and determined independent designers have spent the past year navigating some pretty intense terrain. Thankfully, increased digitization has revealed promising new directions--creating opportunities for emerging talent to reach audiences and for buyers to discover them. 

In her recent webinar, ‘Driving Growth In A Changing Wholesale Market,’ preeminent fashion business consultant Lisa Metcalfe advised brands how to strategize smart post-COVID. Her central message? Thoughtful and measured scaling of operations, based on careful cost-benefit analysis, will carry companies forward in this volatile environment--safely, steadily, and while minimizing risk.

For most ‘non-essential’ retailers, 2020 was not the best year. But many quarantined consumers re-channeled their entertainment spending into improving their house hold environments and home offices.

Historically, Payments processing has comprised one of the greatest points of friction across the wholesale lifecycle. Inefficiencies , high costs, lost revenue, and the potential for fraud characterized the pre-pandemic version of this fraught but necessary step.

Bringing your wholesale business online is an essential part of success in this new digital era. Based on industry trends, 9 out of 10 B2B decision-makers believe online buying will be a fixture throughout 2021 and beyond.

It's safe to say that the global pandemic outbreak has fueled a dramatic shift towards digital solutions within the home textile industry. Brands and retailers worldwide have been engaging and experimenting with a range of immersive virtual showroom technologies.

Across sectors, significant obstacles still make it harder for Black creatives and entrepreneurs to achieve mainstream success. And in fashion and luxury, they have additional issues to navigate, including an established networking culture.

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2020 was an opportunity for the retail industry to change and evolve. Brands found themselves having to make sudden decisions on what digital channels to pursue and partners to work with. 

Today’s fashion customers want value. And post-COVID, that means a lot more than price. Millennials and even more so Gen Z want their purchases to support local businesses and strengthen communities--whether shopping online, or in-person.

For wholesale buyers, the stars have aligned. Since the 2008 recession, our industry has reacted to the possibilities of digital and played catch up with changing market demand.

The coronavirus has brought intense challenges to our industry--ones we have never had to face.Even in this shifting environment, however, there are two things we can hold onto with certainty

When COVID hit our industry last spring, we engaged in a lot of soul-searching. Many fashion and luxury leaders reframed the disaster as a chance for meaningful change.

JOOR has streamlined, enhanced and added features to help buyers discover new brands from around the world. At this high-stakes time, there is an opportunity for buyers to create their most confident assortments and finalize orders virtually… just so long as they put in work, too. Here’s how you can make sure you stand out and set yourself up to make those new relationships from the comfort of your home.

What buyers need to know: