
A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Virgil Abloh on the movement that brought him to Louis Vuitton [HypeBeast]
- Who’s that selling steaks, seafood and toys in a parking lot? It’s Amazon’s Treasure Truck [USAToday]
- The North Face kicks off pilot program for renewed apparel [WWD]
- Fashion got woke. But at what cost? [BoF]
- The power of Kate Spade’s ‘colorful, bold, cheerful’ brand [AdAge]
TECHNOLOGY
- Waymo announces 7 million miles of self-driving car testing, putting it far ahead of rivals [ArsTechnica]
SUSTAINABILITY
- Circularity: Sustainable fashion’s holy grail or greenwashing? [BoF]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- Stella McCartney brings meditation to Galeries Lafayette [WWD]
- Why 2018 is the year of modernization for Target [RetailDive]
- Club Monaco turns to in-store pop-up shops to diversify its retail experience [Glossy]
- Harvey Nichols partners with Hero to offer “Live Shopping” online [TheIndustry]
- House of Fraser to close 31 stores [BBC]
- It’s not retail that’s dying. It’s our imagination [BoF]
- Rent the Runway extends logistics tools to luxury fashion brands [FastCompany]
- A mall in China put in a traffic lane just for people staring at their phones [FastCompany]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Adidas and the World Cup: Mass appeal or awkward deal? [BoF]
- Instagram’s new shopping bag icon adds e-commerce element to advertisers’ Stories [MarketingLand]
- Welcome to China’s KOL clone factories [BoF]
BUSINESS
- Decoding the Dries Van Noten x Puig deal [BoF]
- The future of fashion hiring is fast, digital and diverse [WWD]
- Revolve could be on the brink of an IPO [SourcingJournal]