A round-up of the latest stories to know about surrounding all things fashion and tech…
- Vanessa Friedman: Why I’m breaking up with the Apple Watch [NY Times]
- New York vs London: which is the world’s fashion-tech capital? [BoF]
- Ted Baker experiments with virtual reality as digital concept store opens in Shoreditch [The Drum]
- Net-A-Porter moves into profit after a year of digital innovation [Internet Retailing]
- Bonobos profiting from surge in online menswear sales [The Street]
- Avon Ladies learn to tweet, embrace e-commerce [Digiday]
- Knyttan, a customisable knitwear start-up, gets investors’ seal of approval [Fashionista]
- Why Amazon’s drone delivery is growing trickier [CNBC]
- 3-D printing will fix the way we order shoe sizes [PSFK]
- This high-tech hijab will literally make Muslim women cooler [BuzzFeed]
- Why ‘buy’ buttons will pose big Challenges for Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter [re/code]
- Real-time strategies essential element of retail rehaul: report [Luxury Daily]
- ShopStyle banks on bloggers, relaunches influencer network [WWD]
- How a mole in the tech sector is helping shape the look of ‘Silicon Valley’s’ women [LA Times]