A round-up of the latest stories to know about surrounding all things fashion and tech…
- Asos launches weekly podcast in customer engagement push [Retail Week]
- Burberry’s Snapchat and Periscope campaigns deliver a record 100m impressions [The Drum]
- Jet, the new Amazon competitor, hits $1 million in sales on launch day [re/code]
- Forever 21 launches Instagram-powered thread screen [DigitalBuzzBlog]
- Nordstrom is making it simple to buy via text message [NRF]
- Birchbox’s monthly deliveries will give virtual reality a fascinating test run [AdWeek]
- Katy Perry, Coty launch perfume line with Twitter pop-up shop [AdAge]
- Victoria’s Secret chatting app ensures instantaneous customer satisfaction [PSFK]
- LVMH to launch Apple Watch rival [Reuters]
- Amazon will be the number one US clothing retailer very soon [Bloomberg]
- Old Navy follows viral hit with another back-to-school music video [AdAge]
- Rakuten buys virtual fitting room start-up Fits.Me in a fashion commerce play [TechCrunch]
- E-commerce start-up Tinker Tailor shuts down operations [Fashion Times]
- Personal shopping app Scratch launches with $3.6 million in funding [Fashionista]
- Battle of the buy buttons: What does the social commerce hybrid mean for retail brands? [The Drum]
- The surprising way smartphones are changing the way we shop [The Washington Post]
- Malte Huffmann of Dafiti on cracking fashion e-commerce in Latin America [BoF]
- Fashion’s biological future is now [Huffington Post]
- Programmable clothes are going commercial [Co.design]
- Apple Watch sales: what we know (and don’t know) [WSJ]
- Pebble boss: ‘one day, people will not be able to live without their smartwatch’ [The Guardian]
- Does Ringly have a place in an Apple Watch world? [TechCrunch]
- Vogue launches Alexa Chung fashion documentary series, crowdsources questions [Vogue]
- 10 retailer blogs that are genuinely worth reading [Econsultancy]
