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.
"Amazon in Talks to Buy Jabong for $1.2 Bn" (Business Standard)
"In its first acquisition in India, American online retail giant Amazon is planning to buy out the fashion portal."
"Vloggers Warned to Come Clean When They Advertise" (BBC News)
"Video bloggers – or 'vloggers' – need to make it clear when they are paid to promote products, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has warned."
"Urban Outfitters and 200 Others Start Selling Directly in Shopping App Wanelo" (Recode)
"Wanelo is partnering with 200 brands, including Urban Outfitters and Nasty Gal, to let its users make purchases directly within the app."
"Luxury Watchmakers Crack Down on Copycat Android Wear Watch Faces" (Recode)
"A new platform has emerged for copies of luxury goods: Android Wear smartwatches."
"This Innovation Lab Is Designing the Mall of the Future" (Adweek)
"For the past two years, Westfield Group—which owns and operates 40 shopping centers around the world—has run a testing lab inside the Westfield San Francisco Centre for high-tech experiments looking at how digital and brick-and-mortar shopping work together."
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.