After several delays, Swedish budget fashion chain Hennes & Mauritz AB on Thursday launched its online sales operations in the United States.
The battle of the brands and local retailers goes full speed in 2014 with new labels, stores and malls being unveiled within weeks of each other, in a scale that this town hasn’t seen in years.
The opening of the first H&M store in the Philippines in mid-August is one of the most anticipated this year. The fashion folk who used to hoard pieces during shopping trips abroad will now have the chance to get their hands on the latest offerings of the Swedish high street retailer.
After years of being teased about H&M’s coming to the Philippines, the mothership has truly arrived (cue screams and piggy banks breaking).
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In 2013 alone, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, opened 356 stores, showing its strong commitment to global expansion. The family-controlled Swedish enterprise seems to want to knock Zara off the top perch as the world’s biggest-selling clothing retailer.
The opening of one of the world’s largest fashion retailers has been on Filipino sartorialists’ wish lists for far too long. But as they say, good things come to those who wait.
The biggest fashion holdout in the Philippines, H&M, has announced it will open its first store in the country on Oct. 17 at SM Mega Fashion Hall, from 9 a.m. to midnight.
The concept of “fast fashion” is on the wane, if the designers of one of the world’s biggest high-street fashion brands are to be believed.
It wasn’t exactly a scene out of a Super Walmart branch raising its gates on a Black Friday, when American bargain hunters are known to morph into savages as they jostle, get trampled on and even resort to pepper spray to ward off rival shoppers. Still, H&M’s much-awaited opening in Manila Friday morning was unprecedented in many ways.
