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How Zara's Operations Model Broke the Fashion Calendar
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine how Zara's parent company Inditex built a vertically integrated operations machine that compressed fashion's traditional 12-month design-to-shelf cycle to just three weeks. They trace the specific operational decisions—from centralized cutting in Spain to RFID-tagged garments and store-as-hub logistics—that let Zara chase trends in near-real time while keeping inventory risk low. The conversation digs into the trade-offs: why Zara runs factories in high-cost Europe, how it uses deliberate scarcity to drive foot traffic, and what happens when…
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