A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Apple becomes the world’s first trillion-dollar company [The Guardian]
- Missguided takes product placement to the next level on Love Island [BoF]
- Is artificial intelligence the future of sustainable fashion? [Elle]
TECHNOLOGY
- Could in-home 3D body scanners change how we shop for clothes? [Racked]
- Is trackable clothing fashion’s latest trend? [Vogue UK]
- The rise of the computer-generated celebrity [Wired]
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- Is ‘fast beauty’ plagued by the same ethical challenges as fast fashion? [Fashionista]
- Ralph Lauren drops mohair products after animal cruelty investigation [Fortune]
- Fast fashion: inside the fight to end the silence on waste [BBC]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- What PopSugar learned from selling products through text messages [Digiday]
- Zara to ship online orders from stores [The Industry]
- Nike has a plan to survive retail’s existential crisis – and it’s working [Quartz]
- Goodwill has a new store just for bargain-hunting millennials [Business Insider]
- Menswear startup tailors app to pick clothes based on Spotify tastes [Mobile Marketer]
- Of course there’s a vest vending machine at the San Francisco airport [Racked]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- The North Face opens pop-up store on top of a mountain [Fashion United]
- Kylie Jenner just launched her own Instagram face filters [Harper’s Bazaar]
PRODUCT
- How this 244-year-old company made ‘ugly’ shoes popular and stylish [Inc]
- Athleisure has taken over the sneaker market as shoppers ditch performance styles, study says [Footwear News]
BUSINESS
- Inside the luxury personal shopping wars [BoF]
- Why Prada can charge $1,700 for bananas on your shirt [Bloomberg]
- Swatch Group brands quit Baselworld and what it means for the watch industry [Forbes]
- M&S creates data skills academy to train thousands of employees [Retail Gazette]
- Your friend may pay less than you for the same things you’re buying [Forbes]
CULTURE
- How gun control and gay rights became key to selling jeans [Fast Company]
- How the world of skincare is encouraging more women to explore science [The Verge]
- Anna Wintour to remain with Vogue, Condé Nast ‘indefinitely’ [WWD]
- Welcome to the Hypebeast Hotel [GQ]
- Beyoncé hires first black photographer to shoot a US Vogue cover in 126 years [i-D]
- Dapper Dan is finally getting his props [Complex]
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