A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Brick and mortar’s next chapter (Retail Dive)
- Digital startups offer concrete solutions to fashion industry (WWD)
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- CFDA launches plans to make fashion more racially balanced (WWD)
- Fashion can’t afford to wait for customers to demand sustainability (Vogue Business)
- Fashion’s philanthropy play (Vogue Business)
- Can the furniture industry end waste by going circular? Ikea wants to find out (Fast Company)
RETAIL & COMMERCE
- Websites used to be secondary stores. That dynamic is shifting (Vogue Business)
- How Williams Sonoma’s digital bets made it a coronavirus winner (Modern Retail)
- Gucci’s new tech bet: personalized video shopping (Vogue Business)
- Ecommerce giants up their livestreaming game for 618 shopping festival (Jing Daily)
- How will resale sites respond to an expected flood of looted luxury goods? (The Fashion Law)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Prada backed AI-startup to create live streamed 3D virtual fashion show (Forbes)
- Why UGC is exploding in popularity amongst brands during Covid-19 (The Drum)
- Why luxury brands are betting on Bilibili (Vogue Business)
- Pinterest adds a shop tab to lens visual search results (AdWeek)
PRODUCT
- British Fashion Council launches sustainable designer face masks (Evening Standard)
- Can CBD revive color cosmetics? (Glossy)
BUSINESS
- The world’s largest jewelry maker commits to using 100% recycled silver and gold (Fast Company)
- Puig confirms Charlotte Tilbury buy (TheIndustry.Fashion)
- Coty in talks to collaborate with Kim Kardashion for cosmetics line (Reuters)
- LVMH takes a new look at proposed $16.2B Tiffany merger (Retail Dive)
- What are the legal risks and responsibilities for companies as businesses begin to reopen? (The Fashion Law)
CULTURE
- If window shopping is dead, then so is high street (The Daily Telegraph)
- This is not the end of fashion (NYT)
- Should luxury brands be worried about “revenge saving”? (Jing Daily)
