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.
"Once Poverty-Stricken, China's 'Taobao Villages' Have Found a Lifeline Making Trinkets for the Internet" (Quartz)
"Alibaba says that, nationwide, 18 villages considered to be in poverty by the national government are now Taobao villages, selling more than 10 million yuan ($1.45 million) worth of goods online per year."
"Why Amazon Is The World's Most Innovative Company Of 2017" (Fast Company)
"Unlike Apple, Google, and Microsoft, Amazon is not fixated on a tightly designed ecosystem of interlocking apps and services. Bezos instead emphasises platforms that each serves its own customers in the best and fastest possible way."
"'We Will Become a Ferrari' - Federico Marchetti on His Yoox Net-A-Porter Ambitions" (The Telegraph)
"In order to keep striding beyond its rivals, the company is constantly ramping up its investment in facilities, including a fully robotic, low-oxygen warehouse that will require the occasional human worker to undergo altitude training."
"Pinterest Deepens Retail Integrations with New Visual Search Tech" (Retail Dive)
"The Pinterest Lens visual search tech also allows users to point their smartphone cameras at items to get search results with related styles or ideas on how to use or pair the product, simplifying how users discover new products and ideas on the platform."
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.
Brands are using them for design tasks, in their marketing, on their e-commerce sites and in augmented-reality experiences such as virtual try-on, with more applications still emerging.
Brands including LVMH’s Fred, TAG Heuer and Prada, whose lab-grown diamond supplier Snow speaks for the first time, have all unveiled products with man-made stones as they look to technology for new creative possibilities.