A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- 2 years after they broke the internet, it looks like nobody is buying Vetements [HighSnobiety]
- Walmart opens first small high-tech supermarket in China [Reuters]
- ‘It lost its focus’: Why an e-commerce push won’t be enough to revive H&M [Glossy]
- What Trump’s trade war means for fashion [BoF]
- Alibaba and Ford launch China’s first Tmall car vending machine [BrandChannel]
TECHNOLOGY
- Apple’s groovy iPhone spot shows how you can now pay with a glance [Creativity]
- Museums are the best place to find innovation in AR [VentureBeat]
- How Tumi is using AI in marketing campaigns, online and in stores [Digiday]
SUSTAINABILITY
- Fashion’s 7 priorities to achieve sustainability [BoF]
- Eileen Fisher will use Salone del Mobile installation to remind the fashion world to ‘waste no more’ [WWD]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Former Walmart CEO, of all people, says Congress should break up Amazon [Racked]
- Ted Baker launches experiential pop-up at London’s Old Street station [TheIndustry]
- Nike opens Unlaced, a sneaker boutique for women [BrandChannel]
- 6 tips for taking your brand direct-to-consumer [BoF]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- What Nike’s analytics platform buy says about the future of brand-consumer relationships [AdWeek]
BUSINESS
- Kering confirms Stella McCartney split [BoF]
- Why a potential $5bn valuation at IPO for luxury unicorn Farfetch may not be crazy after all [CB Insights]
- Louis Vuitton’s new appointment marks an important victory for marketing hype over design [StyleZeitgeist]
- Raf Simons’ first year at Calvin Klein delivers for PVH [BoF]
- Lululemon stretches digital marketing wings, sees success [AdAge]
- What’s driving retail’s sneaker obsession? [RetailDive]
- 7 takeaways from Shoptalk 2018 [RetailDive]
