
A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion business, digital comms and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- The second Adidas Originals by Alexander Wang line launches via text-to-buy event [Racked]
- Stitch Fix has filed confidentially for an IPO [Recode]
- A call to activism for outdoor apparel makers [NY Times]
- How Reebok, Adidas and Y-3 will dress future space explorers [Fast Company]
BUSINESS
- Jimmy Choo bought by Michael Kors in £896m deal [BBC]
- MatchesFashion.com could enter stock market [Fashion United]
- Bangladesh to digitally map all garment factories [JustStyle]
- Fashion must fight the scourge of dumped clothing clogging landfills [Guardian]
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Vogue takes ‘hub and spoke’ approach to Snapchat editions in Europe [Digiday]
MARKETING
- Why Helmut Lang hired an editor-in-residence in place of a creative director [Glossy]
- Amazon and Nicopanda launch LFW ‘see now, buy now’ range [Retail Gazette]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- China’s store of the future has no checkout, no cash and no staff [BoF]
- Saint Laurent to launch online sales in China [WSJ]
- You will soon be able to search eBay using a photo or social media web link [CNBC]
- MatchesFashion.com’s Tom Chapman: Amazon’s missing the ‘magic’ of high-end fashion [Glossy]
TECHNOLOGY
- Walmart is developing a robot that identifies unhappy shoppers [Business Insider]
- For the first time ever, you can buy your own 3D-printed garment online [Fashionista]
- MIT’s living jewellery is made up of small robot assistants [TechCrunch]
- Intel axed its entire smartwatch and fitness-tracker group to focus on augmented reality, sources say [CNBC]
START-UPS
- John Lewis unveils retail tech start-ups for JLAB 2017 [The Industry]
- Spider silk start-up spins into retail by buying an apparel company [Fortune]