A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion business, digital comms and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- AI is not optional for retail [VentureBeat]
- How selfie taking has influenced fashion [Edited]
- In global e-commerce, the race to solve the ‘last mile’ [BoF]
BUSINESS
- Avenue32.com confirms closure [The Industry]
- Matchesfashion in £600m sale talks as buyers circle [RetailWeek]
- Alibaba uses its shopping leverage [Bloomberg]
- Amazon’s private label business is booming thanks to device sales, expanded fashion lines [TechCrunch]
SOCIAL MEDIA
- This influencer marketing shop created fake accounts to prove that the industry is full of ad fraud [AdWeek]
MARKETING
- How the sisters behind cult clothing brand Rodarte mastered fashion and film [FastCompany]
- Sephora is creating the world’s largest beauty forum [The Cut]
- The all-woman agency team on Nike who ‘Just Do It’ [AdAge]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Nordstrom and Macy’s: A lesson in surviving the retail apocalypse [RetailDive]
- ‘Retail isn’t dying’: How brands are competing for brick-and-mortar space [Glossy]
- 4 things American department stores must do to survive [BoF]
- What if stores charged admission? [BoF]
