A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion business, digital comms and tech industry news over the past fortnight.
TOP STORIES
- Will Amazon eat fashion? [BoF]
- Farfetch boss hails US$397m tie-up with JD.com, says partnership will speed up luxury fashion portal’s growth in China [SCMP]
- World’s first “smart street” launches in London [The Industry]
- For brands, fitting rooms are the key to unlocking valuable customer data [Glossy]
BUSINESS
- Why Walmart bought Bonobos [BoF]
- Inside the costly fashion faux pas that was ill-fated Style.com [Telegraph]
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Amazon Pay rolls out its first payments integration on Instagram [GeekWire]
- Fashion retailers are reconsidering their chatbot strategies [Glossy]
MARKETING
- The xx’s new music video is also a Calvin Klein ad [Campaign]
- Asos praised for using ‘natural’ unretouched images of models [The Drum]
- Has Unilever’s ambition to eradicate gender stereotyping from its own ads been successful? [The Drum]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Why retail flagships are running aground [AdAge]
- In the Amazon era, debating the store of the future [Glossy]
- Amazon, now a physical retailer too, is granted an anti-showrooming patent [TechCrunch]
TECHNOLOGY
- Why retail labs are toast [AdAge]
- Survey: 45% of retailers plan to use AI in next 3 years [Retail Dive]
- How L’Oréal uses virtual reality to make internal decisions at its New York HQ [Glossy]
- Google Glass is apparently back from the dead, starts getting software updates [ArsTechnica]
START-UPS
- Stitch Fix has hired a new CFO. An IPO probably comes next [Recode]
