A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- How fashion brands are preparing for lockdown 2.0 (BoF)
- Retailers brace for more pandemic trouble (Retail Dive)
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- Tommy x Mercedes capsule zeroes in on sustainability (WWD)
- Selfridges launches sustainability focused Christmas shop (TheIndustry.Fashion)
- Long snubbed, secondhand luxury catches on in the Middle East (Vogue Business)
- The sustainability goals Chanel, Kering and H&M could all agree on (BoF)
RETAIL & COMMERCE
- How 5G will change AR and digital fashion (Vogue Business)
- How digital beauty brands make wholesale work (BoF)
- How small retailers are doing Amazon Prime Day amid pandemic (CNBC)
- The pre-order model: why it’s working (Vogue Business)
- Who you need to hire for te e-commerce boom (BoF)
- Amazon’s AR app turns boxes into shareable AR experiences (WWD)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- In the age of COVID-19, social media proves a savior for sales (WWD)
- Allure designs holiday shopping issue around virtual try-on experiences (Retail Dive)
- Why luxury brands are desperate for digital desire (Jing Daily)
- What does winning a post-COVID marketing plan look like? (BoF)
PRODUCT
- Banana Republic re-releases necklace to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Fashion United)
- Miu Miu launches upcycled collection (WWD)
- Hyundai just released a sustainable fashion collection (Fast Company)
BUSINESS
- Kohl’s pivots in the pandemic (WWD)
- Fate of formal fashion hangs by a thread (Reuters)
- Shiseido’s Carol Zhou builds on innovating beauty (Jing Daily)
- IKEA just entered the resale game (HighSnobiety)
- Will Amazon luxury stores really attract high-end shoppers? (SCMP)
- John Lewis outlines five-year digital heavy strategy (Fashion United)
CULTURE
- Creativity is dead, long live curation (HighSnobiety)
- Is it streetwear or is it art? (NYT)
