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.
"Rocket Internet Faces New Setback with Loss of Senior Managers" (Reuters)
"Germany's Rocket Internet is losing two senior managers in the latest setback for a company that a year ago was considered one of Europe's best hopes for competing with global tech giants."
"The Future of Wearables Is Smart Fabrics, Says Business of Fashion Founder" (Wired)
"As technology continues to advance in areas such as material science and nanotech, the real opportunity may be in so-called smart fabrics."
"The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment" (The New York Times)
"Zappos, the online shoe retailer experimenting with the radical self-management system Holacracy, is continuing to hemorrhage employees."
"Threadflip Closes Shop As Secondhand Clothes Startup Market Consolidates" (Forbes)
"The race to reinvent eBay has one less participant after secondhand clothing startup Threadflip announced on Tuesday that it would be shutting down."
"Burberry Debuts on Apple TV with Menswear Fashion Show" (Mashable)
"On January 11 Burberry celebrated the launch by using the platform to live stream its fall 2016 menswear show. This was the first time a luxury label has broadcasted a fashion show in real time on the app."
The nature of livestream transactions makes it hard to identify and weed out counterfeits and fakes despite growth of new technologies aimed at detecting infringement.
The extraordinary expectations placed on the technology have set it up for the inevitable comedown. But that’s when the real work of seeing whether it can be truly transformative begins.
Successful social media acquisitions require keeping both talent and technology in place. Neither is likely to happen in a deal for the Chinese app, writes Dave Lee.
TikTok’s first time sponsoring the glitzy event comes just as the US effectively deemed the company a national security threat under its current ownership, raising complications for Condé Nast and the gala’s other organisers.