A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Fashion is set for an M&A frenzy in 2021 (BoF)
- What a vaccine could mean for retail (Retail Dive)
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- Clothing businesses urged to protect their profits and the planet with ambitious climate change pledge (TheIndustry.Fashion)
- The UK watchdog is tackling greenwashing. Will others? (Vogue Business)
- Allbirds to raise prices on Black Friday to fight climate change (Retail Dive)
- Barbour places sustainability at the heart of Christmas campaign (Fashion United)
RETAIL & COMMERCE
- How Aesop plans to keep it culty (BoF)
- Walmart taps self-driving vehicle startup for autonomous deliveries (Retail Dive)
- At-home beauty tech see a lockdown boom (Vogue Business)
- DTC brands reimagine the mall (Glossy)
- Can fashion finally crack the ‘last-mile’? (BoF)
- Misguided ramps up contact-free collection ahead of Christmas (Fashion United)
- Is click-and-mortar the future of China’s luxury retail? (Jing Daily)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Olding is the new blanding: luxury brands look back to get ahead (BoF)
- Taking advantage of multi-level marketing MLM in China (Jing Daily)
- L’Oreal offers first line of makeup for social media, video calls (Retail Dive)
- How Rite-Aid’s rebranding takes cues from digital competitors (Modern Retail)
PRODUCT
- H&M Home taps DVF for interior collection (Fashion United)
- Judith Leiber launches customizable fragrance (WWD)
- This sweater was grown in a bioreactor (Fast Company)
BUSINESS
- VF to acquire Supreme, valuing brand at $2.1 billion plus (WWD)
- Mytheresa plans for US IPO (Bloomberg)
- Alibaba boasts over $70 billion sales as first post-virus Singles Day nears end (Reuters)
- Farfetch talks “Luxury New Retail” initiative (WWD)
- How the Farfetch-Alibaba-Richemont alliance could change the game in the world’s largest luxury market (BoF)
- Ulta Beauty and Target announce partnership (WWD)
CULTURE
- Seizing Shanghai Art Week’s fashion opportunity (WWD)
- Millenial women lead as China’s most important customer (Jing Daily)
- How to market to a divided America (Business of Fashion)