Monki news and archive

H&M Group's Monki plans to only use sustainably sourced cotton

Scandinavian womenswear brand Monki is on a mission to support only sustainably sourced materials. The brand aims to complete this goal by 2030, but this week it has announced that this autumn, it has reached the next step in the process. As of this season, 100 percent of Monki’s cotton products will be sourced sustainably. Part of the H&M...

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H&M’s Weekday opens store in Helsinki, to launch Monki in Newcastle

Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) selling merchandise under labels such as H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, Arket and Afound, opened doors to a new Weekday store at the REDI Shopping Centre, in Helsinki on September 20, 2018. The company also announced that it plans to open a new Monki concept store at the Intu Eldon...

Fashion

H&M Group to launch new apps with Google and HoloMe

H&M Group is set to showcase two new “cutting-edge” technology features during Stockholm Fashion Tech Talks, the conference on fashion digitisation, which have been created in collaboration with Google and HoloMe. Elin Frendberg, H&M group business development, said in a press release: “At H&M group we constantly work on innovations that create...

Fashion

Monki launches first global sustainability campaign: Monki Cares

London - Monki, the edgier younger sister brand to H&M, has launched its first global sustainability campaign as part of its parent company’s, the H&M Group, wider strategy to only use 100 percent recycled or sustainably sourced materials by 2030. Monki’s debut campaign, known as Monki Cares, focuses on promoting the retailer’s in-store...

Retail

Monki opens flagship store on Tmall.com

Tmall, the e-commerce platform of Chinese internet giant Alibaba, is launching an official online flagship store of Swedish fashion brand Monki today, which will be accessible at monki.tmall.com. “This is the beginning of a great collaboration between Monki and Tmall,” said Lea Rytz Goldman, Monki's managing director, in a press release. “It is...

Retail

H&M preparing to launch new 'mystery' label

London - Swedish fast-fashion company H&M is reportedly exploring options to launch an all new brand which will be very dissimilar from its namesake label as well as its sister labels and current store concepts. This new brand could be launched as soon as 2017 and "will be completely different from H&M" according to H&M's Chief Executive Officer...

Apparel

Monki to launch worldwide with Asos

H&M’s younger sister brand Monki is teaming up with online retailer Asos to distribute its brand internationally. From early July, Monki will join Asos’ roster of international brands, making the fashion label available in more than 230 countries worldwide. Asos will stock the majority of the Monki line as well as a collaborative range of...

Trends

Award for store design Monki

The Swedish label Monki was awarded the ‘interior design concept of the year award’ for its latest concept store design, at the Habit Fashion Awards gala in Stockholm. The annual award is presented by fashion magazine Habit. “The retail interior concept of the year is a seductive and wild flirt. But above all, it is bold, unique and cocky,” says...