ICYMI: Puma’s sustainable material goals, retailers team up to improve AR/VR, guide to ethical certifications
A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Puma aims for 90% of materials to be sustainable sourced by 2020 [Fashion Network]
- Retailers, tech companies team up to improve AR/VR [Retail Dive]
- Fashionista’s complete beginner’s guide to ethical fashion certifications [Fashionista]
TECHNOLOGY
- Retailers are tracking where you shop—and where you sleep [Bloomberg]
- How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’ [The Verge]
- Japanese taxis are using facial recognition to target ads to riders [Futurism]
- AI could replace 42% of UK wholesale and retail jobs [Drapers]
- IBM, FIT to train future designers on AI [WWD]
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- Levi Strauss launches denim recycling program [Fashion Network]
- UK retailers might have to pay all their packaging waste costs [WWD]
- Can cheap fashion ever be ethical? [Quartz]
- T-shirt recycling is here, and it could transform fashion [Fast Company]
- True blue: Denim has to change to save the planet [Retail Dive]
- Packaging is killing the planet—these start-ups offer luxe, sustainable solutions [Vogue]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Alibaba’s Tmall chief establishes ambitious 3-Year plan [Bloomberg]
- The rise of live-streamer style [NYT]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
PRODUCT
- Zozo’s experiment in customized clothing was too early [Quartz]
- Lululemon bets on product innovation, expansion for 5-year growth plan [Fashion Network]
BUSINESS
- Shares of US retailers drop following Amazon’s one-day delivery announcement [BoF]
- Goldman Sachs says dragged-out Brexit is doing deeper damage to UK economy [Fashion Network]
- Puma enjoys ‘best ever’ quarter as it ramps up stocks [Reuters]
- Debenhams names 22 stores to close [BBC]
CULTURE
- Patagonia has only 4 percent employee turnover because they value this 1 thing so much [Inc]
- Tapping the men’s wellness opportunity [BoF]
- How a niche designer brand won Coachella [BoF]
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