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AI, Outlets, Recycling: Can Luxury Solve Its Billion-Dollar Excess Inventory Problem?

Chart showing the value of excess inventory held by luxury’s biggest players amounted to billions of dollars at the end of 2022

On an industrial site near the French-Belgian border, high-end sneakers, handbags and ready-to-wear garments are routinely dismantled, shredded and granulated in preparation for recycling.

None of these products have ever been used by a consumer. Instead they are a small slice of what has become a billion-dollar challenge for luxury’s biggest businesses: what to do with goods that don’t sell from season to season?

Last year, LVMH…


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