The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
"Europe: Fashion World's Ecommerce Centre" (The Financial Times)
"Europe is at the heart of fashion innovation. Start-up entrepreneurs share why this is the right side of the Atlantic."
"With A Fresh $15 Million, Olapic Will Replace Brands' Stock Photos With Your Instagram Pics" (TechCrunch)
"Olapic, which helps brands boost sales with user-generated images from social media, has raised $15 million in new funding."
"Fashion Apps Continue the Trend for Mobile Swiping" (The Telegraph)
"Ecommerce now comes as easily to us as shopping on the High Street. Mobile commerce is the next horizon and we are more likely to be swiping our screens, rather than staring into them."
"Why an 'Amazon For High Fashion' is a Really Bad Idea" (High Snobiety)
"For anyone enamoured enough with fashion to spend several hundreds, if not thousands, on a single piece of clothing, surely the existing array of online retailers is sufficient? Do we really need a one-stop super shop to lump everything together in one lazy basket?"
"This Algorithm Just Solved Fashion" (Wired)
"Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an algorithm that uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to help you identify exactly where you are going wrong, by comparing you against a range of "fashionability factors"."
The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely.
The app, owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, has been promising to help emerging US labels get started selling in China at the same time that TikTok stares down a ban by the US for its ties to China.
Zero10 offers digital solutions through AR mirrors, leveraged in-store and in window displays, to brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Coach. Co-founder and CEO George Yashin discusses the latest advancements in AR and how fashion companies can leverage the technology to boost consumer experiences via retail touchpoints and brand experiences.
Four years ago, when the Trump administration threatened to ban TikTok in the US, its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. worked out a preliminary deal to sell the short video app’s business. Not this time.