Your round-up of the latest stories related to fashion and technology…
- Why you’ll soon be seeing Diesel ads on Grindr, Tinder and Pornhub [i-D]
- Chanel may have just won a battle for the Chanel Instagram account [The Fashion Law]
- Why the fashion world hates wearables [Co.Design]
- High tech innovation wears well at Ralph Lauren [Forbes]
- Burberry debuts on Apple TV with menswear fashion show [Mashable]
- Misha Nonoo will skip fashion week to follow a consumer calendar [Fashionista]
- Everlane’s starting a private Instagram account for new products [Digiday]
- How Belstaff maintains a strong defense against counterfeiters [Stores]
- How Urban Decay gets its 4.1 million Instagram followers to shop [Digiday]
- Victoria’s Secret furthers organic storytelling mastery via Angel-endorsed Snapchat takeover [Mobile Marketer]
- Crocs bows to critics, deletes David Bowie tribute tweet [Brand Republic]
- Meet the female CEOs running fashion’s biggest brands [Fashionista]
- What fashion needs to know about cyber security [BoF]
- Shoppers are choosing experiences over stuff, and that’s bad news for retailers [The Washington Post]
- Do ‘digital flagships’ deliver? [BoF]
- The myth of the physical versus digital retail battle [WWD]
- Why the social media ‘buy button’ is still there, even though most never use it [The Washington Post]
- Inside the hidden world that handles your holiday returns [Wired]
- Retail writes an obit on flash sale sites [Marketplace]
- The blogosphere pays off more than ever [WWD]
- What’s Grindr’s new agenda? [Dazed]
- Instagram and the watch world [NY Times]
- Why women aren’t buying smart watches [Racked]
- Apple acquires Emotient, start-up that reads emotions from facial expressions [Fortune]
- Why visual search will become a marketing obsession in the coming years [AdWeek]
- These vibrating yoga pants will correct your downward dog [Fast Company]
- 30 under 30 retail and e-commerce 2016: meet the millennials changing how we shop [Forbes]
Rachel Arthur - January 19, 2016 
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