A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- H&M creates augmented reality experience for Moschino collab [WWD]
- Walmart doubles down on its transformation into a technology company [Forbes]
- Massive Attack are releasing an album in a new format: DNA [WIRED]
TECHNOLOGY
- Smart speaker adoption has nearly doubled in a year [RetailDive]
- DTC hair-color brand Madison Reed is launching virtual try-on features [Glossy]
- Google Lens comes to Google Images for searching – and shopping [TechCrunch]
- Facebook confirms it’s building augmented reality glasses [TechCrunch]
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- How Ikea and HP want to help keep plastic out of the ocean: make stuff from it [FastCompany]
- PrimaLoft unveils its first fully recycled, biodegradable fiber [WWD]
- Coach becomes the latest luxury house to ditch real fur [The Industry]
- Guess takes its wardrobe recycling program with I:CO nationwide [FashionUnited]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- ‘Retailers have to be ready for it’: visual search sits on the brink of a breakthrough [Digiday]
- Retailers flummoxed about how to handle ‘serial returners’ [RetailDive]
- Target clears 250K square feet of space for toy experiences [RetailDive]
- The secrets to Selfridges’ success [BoF]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- You can now book travel by taking an Instagram screenshot [Quartzy]
PRODUCT
- Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton is giving away club night T-shirts [Highsnobiety]
BUSINESS
- Future-proofing the Ermenegildo Zegna Group [BoF]
- Debenhams makes record annual loss and plans up to 50 store closures [BBC]
- Richemont, Alibaba join forces on retail platform for China [BoF]
CULTURE
- At Sephoria, everyone got to be an influencer [Fashionista]
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