We’re back with another round-up of everything you might have missed in fashion, digital comms and technology news over the past week or so. Top of the agenda is an in-depth insight from Yoox Net-a-Porter Group on how it plans to outpace the online luxury market through 2020, while there’s also highlights from LVMH’s start-up showcase in Paris, the role synthetic spider silk might play in the future, not to mention various views from the latest Snapchat campaigns…
- How Yoox Net-a-Porter Group plans to outpace the online luxury market through 2020 [Fashionista]
- Synthetic spider silk could be the biggest technological advance in clothing since nylon [QZ]
- LVMH is looking for start-ups to bring personalisation to its brands [Glossy]
- Snapchat takes turn at couture [WWD]
- Early reads on Snapchat lenses show success for Urban Decay and Benefit [WWD]
- Kate Moss leads line-up of stars in new Calvin Klein campaign [The Industry]
- Shiseido ups digital game with ‘Rouge Rouge Kiss Me’ [WWD]
- Meet MikMak, the mobile shopping network that sells via video [WSJ]
- Beauty and the bot: Artificial intelligence is the key to personalising aesthetic products [The Globe and Mail]
- How software is reshaping fashion’s back end [BoF]
- Pinterest for fashion brands: ‘It’s not there yet’ [Glossy]
- Can new technologies thwart counterfeiters? [BoF]
- Blippar sets ‘early 2017’ date to hit mass awareness as it tunes ad business for visual search [The Drum]
