A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- How stores and brands and survive the COVID-19 era (Fast Company)
- The incredible shrinking department store (Retail Dive)
- The tech behind social distance selling (Vogue Business)
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- 5 brands launched during the pandemic (WWD)
- Is transparency in fashion a dead end? (Vogue Business)
- The iconic launches 100% recycled packaging (Drapers)
- Gucci, Givenchy, Dior & other big brands are name-checked in new report on the $20 billion-plus illegal wildlife trade (The Fashion Law)
RETAIL & COMMERCE
- The shift to e-commerce poses a challenge for luxury brands (Vogue Business)
- The store of the future is coming this summer. Here’s what it looks like. (Modern Retail)
- Beauty brand leaders predict the future of omnichannel (Glossy)
- What the pandemic reveals about e-commerce (RetailDive)
- Experiential retail will get a digital facelift in the post-coronavirus world (Modern Retail)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- The first Animal Crossing fashion show is here (Vogue)
- Benefit cosmetics brings AR tool to Wechat (Mobile Marketer)
- Tommy Hilfiger livestreams event to sell spring lines (WWD)
- These brands are speaking out against racism on social media (AdWeek)
PRODUCT
- With this antiviral fabric coating, your clothing could protect you from COVID-19 (Fast Company)
- Can Venus Williams’ sunscreen launch bring more inclusivity to clean beauty? (Glossy)
- Allbirds and Adidas embark on new collaboration to create shoe with ‘lowest ever carbon footprint’ (Fashionista)
- CLOT x Rhude collaboration drops at the perfect time (Jing Daily)
BUSINESS
- Gucci abandons ‘worn-out ritual’ of fashion seasons as the industry looks inward (CNN)
- With Neiman Marcus filing for bankruptcy, what’s next for Bergdorf Goodman? (Vogue)
- How Harrod’s is solving its excess inventory problem (BoF)
- Despite the crisis, luxury continues to attract investments (WWD)
- Alibaba attempts to replicate Taobao model overseas (Jing Daily)
- Zalando makes sustainability mandatory for all brands (WWD)
CULTURE
- The polarizing allure of sneaker culture (WWD)
- Gen-Z consumers’ appetite for luxury goods is still intact despite COVID-19 (The Fashion Law)
- Wellness is the new luxury after COVID-19 for China (Jing Daily)
