Rachel Arthur
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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
- Apple’s Tim Cook on the future of fashion and shopping [Vogue]
- Retailers continue to experiment with visual search [Glossy]
- Fashion needs an open-source sustainability solution [BoF]
- Alibaba to spend $15 billion exploring ‘moonshot’ projects [Bloomberg]
BUSINESS
- Giorgio Armani speaks on restructuring and succession plans [BoF]
- Coach is changing its name to Tapestry [Bloomberg]
- How Supreme grew a $1 billion business with a secret partner [BoF]
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
- Fashion week engagements on Instagram nearly tripled compared to February’s fashion month [AdWeek]
- Snapchat is twice as popular as Instagram when it comes to teens’ favourite social apps [AdWeek]
- Will Dove’s ‘Pepsi moment’ affect the brand in the long term? [The Drum]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Walmart and Target are banding with Google to take on Amazon [AdWeek]
- Black Friday shoppers more likely than ever to go online this year [Retail Dive]
- ASOS launches same-day delivery service [The Industry]
TECHNOLOGY
- Mastercard offers first checkout option for VR with Swarovski [AdAge]
- What Sephora knows about women in tech that Silicon Valley doesn’t [WSJ]
- Marie Claire and Mastercard showcase the future of shopping [BrandChannel]
PRODUCT
- What goes into making an earth-friendly $68 pair of jeans at Everlane [Bloomberg]
- Spider silk and stem-cell leather are the future of fashion [Engadget]
- Stella McCartney is pioneering synthetic spider silk in high fashion [QZ]
- Kering announces 2017 sustainable winners [FashionUnited]
START-UPS
- With the launch of a lower-price subscription service, how Rent the Runway’s ‘closet in the cloud’ is changing the face of sustainability [Fashionista]
- Digital closet start-ups want to give you the Cher Horowitz experience [Racked]