A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Is Farfetch founder Neves the Jeff Bezos of fashion? [Forbes]
- ‘Shoppable billboards’: DTC retailers say physical stores are driving online sales [Digiday]
- Amazon reportedly plans to open 3,000 cashier-less stores by 2021 [The Next Web]
- Is renting designer fashion the future? [FT]
TECHNOLOGY
- Walmart to put 1M workers in Oculus Go VR headsets [WWD]
- Ikea’s think tank envisions self-driving cars as rooms on wheels [Quartzy]
- Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy [FastCompany]
- Cryptocurrency is coming for the beauty industry [Fashionista]
- Amazon launches Scout, a machine learning-powered visual shopping tool [TechCrunch]
- RFID technology addresses consumer woes over out-of-stocks [WWD]
- Six AI innovations that could change skincare and beauty [Dazed]
- US and South Korea just performed the world’s first live 3D hologram call over 5G [IBTimes]
- Teaching robots to predict the future [The Next Web]
SUSTAINABILITY & PURPOSE
- The environment’s new clothes: biodegradable textiles grown from live organisms [Scientific American]
- More than ever, our clothes are made of plastic. Just washing them can pollute the oceans [Vox]
- Skechers delivers 15,000 pairs of shoes to children still in need in Puerto Rico [Businesswire]
- Where Burberry waste goes now label isn’t burning clothes any more [SCMP]
- Is certification the answer to fashion’s ethical issues? [LS:N Global]
- New study shows that Gen Z will strengthen sustainability trend [FashionUnited]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Amazon Storefronts is a new retail hub exclusively for US small businesses [TheVerge]
- Container Store tracks appointments with voice tech [RetailDive]
- Italy’s first Starbucks serves cocktails, ice cream, and a side of augmented reality [Mashable]
- The future of airport retail is hyper-personalization [LS:N Global]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Victoria’s Secret’s Pink revamps loyalty with mobile app [RetailDive]
- Gucci’s surprise new Instagram account truly revitalizes its beauty offering [i-D]
- How Nordstrom reinvented its retail loyalty program [Digiday]
- The epic ‘Game of Go’: a real-time experience showcasing Nike’s latest React technology [TheDrum]
PRODUCT
- Bespoke tailoring in the athleisure age: how China changed Savile Row [SCMP]
- How De Beers learned to love lab-grown diamonds [BoF]
BUSINESS
- Walmart is borrowing luxury’s playbook to gain an edge on Amazon in fashion [Quartz]
- Store investment pays off as Harvey Nichols profits soar [TheIndustry]
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