Case Study

CHICO’s FAS INC.

Innovative Fabric Drives $1 Million In Incremental Retail Sales

PROJECT GOALS

We were challenged with finding a way to refresh the No Iron Collection of woven tops, which typically consisted of 25 skus of tops in solid, print, and stripe no-iron fabric, and a mix of sleeve lengths and silhouettes.

OUR SOLUTION

We worked with the no iron fabric vendor on new technologies they had to determine which would bring the highest return on investment. We explored embossed, metallic yarn woven, cooling technology, but landed on no iron linen. Linen is a fabric most love-to-hate because of how easily it wrinkles. We developed one silhouette in 5 colors and launched Chico’s first ever no iron linen collection.

RESULTS

These 5 skus of the first-ever No-Iron linen drove an incremental $1 Million dollars in sales. Now, seven years later, the collection has been trademarked and is a multi-million dollar collection for Chico’s Resort / Spring / Summer collections. It has expanded into patterns, prints, and multiple silhouettes.

DeAnna has clearly demonstrated her professionalism during our collaboration. She has been open to new ideas, willing to explore win-win solutions, not only solving problems but at the same time creating values to both parties. I personally look forward to having a chance to work with her again.

– Ben Tsui, VP Customer Engagement, TAL Apparel