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...Shein, whose clothes are popular among Gen Z shoppers, is waiting for regulators in Beijing and Washington to approve its listing, which is expected to be the largest initial public offering of the year....
...In 2020, Instagram introduced “reels”, a feature that allowed users to share short clips, cloning the TikTok’s viral video features that had hooked millions of Gen Z consumers....
...Shein’s tight supply chain management is at the heart of its ability to offer low prices to lure Gen Z shoppers....
...Reporting by Ryan McMorrow in Beijing, Eleanor Olcott in Hong Kong, Ivan Levingston in London, Tabby Kinder in San Francisco and James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
...In September Chinese ecommerce group Pinduoduo launched Temu, a marketplace selling cheap clothes to Gen Z women in the US....
...The rapidly expanding retailer, which sells cheap clothes and lifestyle products targeting Gen-Z shoppers mainly in the west and the Middle East, has been valued at $65bn-$85bn in private markets, according...
...The company has emerged as a fast-fashion powerhouse based on its model of making thousands of clothing styles in China and air-shipping them to Gen Z shoppers in the US and Europe....
...Eleanor OlcottShein is the hot new kid on the block. It’s the company Gen Z’s and bankers alike are all talking about....
...Shein recently announced a joint venture with Forever 21, a fast-fashion brand popular with Gen Z shoppers, which could see the group expand its footprint into physical retail stores....
...Gen Z shoppers have flocked to the online fashion group looking for cheap clothes and accessories to constantly update their wardrobe for a world where it is taboo to be pictured online in the same outfit...
...An exclusive teardown of Samsung’s latest model, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 foldable smartphone, done by Nikkei and Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, reveals that the South Korean giant uses about 50 per cent local content...
...comes as Pinduoduo ventures into the territory of another Sequoia-backed venture, Shein, in September by launching fast-fashion venture Temu, targeting the insatiable appetite for cheap clothing among Gen Z...
...The ascent of China’s Shein, set to become the world’s largest fast-fashion specialist retailer, has spawned imitators looking to profit from Gen Z’s growing appetite for cheap clothing....
...planner in his 20s from eastern Jiangsu province, decided to treat himself after a hard day of work to a Chicecream ice cream, known as the “Hermes of ice cream”, popular with the country’s sweet-toothed Gen-Z....
...MARCH Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (Granta/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)A psychological thriller built around the activities of a guerrilla gardening group from Catton, who became the youngest ever winner...
...Then Eleanor Olcott and Helen Warrell revealed how a Chinese company, which has been accused of being a front for a state-sponsored hacking team, had tried to recruit English language students....
...For Gen-Z consumers, the company has become synonymous with the TikTok phenomenon of influencers posting short clips of “Shein hauls”, parading an array of outfits to their online fans....
...Field Recordings Bringing the outdoors indoors, the British producer Eleanor McDowall has invited friends and fellow audio creators to submit al fresco recordings from across the world....
...White Houses , by Amy Bloom, Granta, RRP£12.99/Random House, RRP$27 One of the tenderest, most compassionate novels I have read, this is the real story of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s 30-year affair with...
...Breakfast at Sotheby’s: An A-Z of the Art World, by Philip Hook, Particular Books, RRP£20 How to nail the mad, bad, crazy contemporary art world in print?...
...Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend, by Amy Stewart, Timber Press RRP£9.99 A dip into the dank underworld of plants at their most noxious, from the hemlock...
...“Whenever I see a rocker I want to sit in it and have a go,” says Eleanor Davies, a buyer at The Conran Shop. “That sums up their appeal. They’re irresistible and slightly irreverent....
...The pitch doesn’t just slope down, but also across, giving the impression that everything is slipping over the edge – off the map (or at least the A to Z), out of the league, into the nameless hinterland...
...He was a fully visible juvenile lead in movies for 11 years - albeit B-to-Z movies - before Easy Rider gave him fame and name....
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