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.
"Talent Flow Reverses as Luxury Groups Get Serious About Digital" (The Financial Times)
"LVMH's appointment of Mr Rogers suggests the €224bn-a-year luxury sector is finally getting serious about digital."
"Burberry Becomes First Fashion Brand to Launch Apple Music Channel" (Bloomberg)
"UK luxury-goods maker Burberry Group Plc introduced a channel on Apple Inc.'s music service in the latest example of the fashion and technology industries coming together."
"Why Live Streaming Is the Future of Fashion Week" (Racked)
"While some 100,000 people attended last September's shows, 2.6 million live-streamed them instead."
"Makeup Startup Ipsy Said to Be Valued at $500 Million" (Bloomberg)
"Ipsy, a cosmetics-subscription service with $130 million in annual sales, raised $100 million in a second round of funding led by TPG and Sherpa Ventures."
"How a Tech Giant Infiltrated New York Fashion Week" (Fortune)
"Whether it was with drones, 'smart' bras and dresses equipped with sensors, Intel was everywhere at New York Fashion Week."
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.