The big news over the past couple of weeks in the retail and fashion tech space was of course the concept of Amazon drones, but multiple other stories grabbed the headlines too. Here’s a highlight of the best ones…
- IBM’s Watson explores the great e-commerce unknown with The North Face [AdAge]
- What Instagram Direct means for fashion brands (as pictured) [Fashionista]
- Pinterest just figured out how to make shopping awesome with Target [The Washington Post]
- Barneys creates holiday .gif guide to appeal to younger consumers [Luxury Daily]
- Harrods’ Christmas Weibo campaign engages London’s Chinese tourist influx [Jing Daily]
- Karmaloop targets millennials with YouTube and Snapchat holiday plan [AdWeek]
- Kmart’s ‘Ship My Pants’ gets the Dickens treatment for Christmas [AdAge]
- Native advertising: the pros and cons [WWD]
- Designing the next generation of wearables, with women in mind [Fast Company]
- With 3-D printing, clothing that leaves out the sewing machine [NY Times]
- Mallzee is a Tinder-esque shopping app that lets your friends play fashion police [TechCrunch]
- Start-up Thread is building a scalable personal styling service, blending human stylists and intelligent algorithms [BoF]
- Instagram is the ‘best platform for brands’ in 2013, beating out Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ [Venture Beat]
- Retailers look to their best customers, not bloggers, as the new influencers [Fashionista]
- Achieving press-worthy initiatives through technology partnerships [Fashion’s Collective]
- Gap’s ad with Sikh model Waris Ahluwalia defaced with racist graffiti, drawing incredible response from company [Huffington Post]
(Reblogged from Fashion and Mash)
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