Digital snippets: Apple and Hermès, A/W 15 Rebecca Minkoff in virtual reality, all things tech this #NYFW
Here’s a round-up of the latest stories to know about surrounding all things fashion and tech…

- Apple plus Hermès: smart watch dream team or weird mash-up? (as pictured) [NY Times]
- Apple watch and Hermès: a match made for China [JingDaily]
- You can now watch the A/W 15 Rebecca Minkoff show via a virtual reality headset [Racked]
- 10 techy things to look out for this New York Fashion Week [Forbes Life]
- Farfetch creates an independent business to power brands’ e-commerce sites [Fashionista]
- Apple executive Ian Rogers is heading to LVMH [WSJ]
- How Chanel trounces other industry brands on YouTube [Digiday]
- Brace yourselves, Nike self-lacing shoes might arrive in October [PSFK]
- Ted Baker on why its Instagram success is down to organic reach not its ad formats [The Drum]
- How discount retailer Primark has evaded e-commerce [Digiday]
- Uber to unveil big e-commerce delivery program with retailers this autumn [Re/code]
- Should fashion companies let social media influence what’s hot and what’s not? [Independent]
- Periscope is set to make fashion weeks more candid than ever this season [Forbes]
- Inside fashion’s Instagram wars [BoF]
- How machine vision is about to change the fashion world [MIT Technology Review]
- Could 3D body scanning mean never entering another dressing room again? [Quartz]
- Obama administration to open wearable tech R&D center in Silicon Valley [Fast Company]
- This is the ‘world’s first’ contactless winter jacket [Wired]
- Why fashionable millennials are flocking to online brands for wardrobe basics [AdWeek]
- Thread.com unites fashion and tech for $8m investment [TechCityNews]
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