- Kik launches concierge bot ability
As fashion brands continue to delve into the world of chatbots, messaging platform Kik is offering a new capability for its own fashion and beauty chatbots to enhance the shopping experience.
- Metier Creative’s Stacie Brockman: Influencer marketing is heading for a crash
On this week’s Glossy Podcast, Stacie Brockman, now co-founder of Metier Creative and previously an editor at one of the original blogging networks The Coveteur, laid bare how fashion influencers got to this point.
- Japanese brand Anrealage hosts augmented reality fashion show
Japanese brand Anrealage decided to take an antithetical approach to Paris Fashion Week, asking viewers to keep their eyes glued to their phone screens rather than the models.
- Bloggers speak out against Vogue’s ‘death of style’ hand-wringing
Bloggers, fashion photographers, and editors alike, including Tommy Ton, Susie Lau and BryanBoy, took to social media to dispute the claims that their profession is frivolous, receiving widespread support from fans, who have decried Vogue’s “mean girls style condescension.”
- Confessions of a luxury designer: We don’t know how to modernize
Social and digital media is forcing luxury fashion brands to change the way they operate, sell products and design clothes, but some are doing so at an extremely slow pace. In this edition of Confessions, we talk to an employee of a luxury fashion house about what it's like to...
- Snapchat Spectacles get a passing grade from fashion industry
Snapchat announced it will delve into hardware for the first time with Spectacles, a new line of sunglasses that hold the capability to take 10 seconds of live video from a first-person perspective.
- Inside Cartier’s sponsored content strategy
From GQ to the New York Times to Refinery 29, luxury brand Cartier is bullish with native advertising. The brand works with publishers to create content that isn't as distracting as traditional advertising, using text, photos and video. "It [sponsored content] allows us to remain in the reader’s environment and...
- Marc Jacobs teams up with Apple Music to play digital DJ
Following Alexander Wang's debut with Apple in June, Marc Jacobs is the latest designer to step up to the digital DJ booth as September's featured design
- How Vera Bradley is pivoting to become more millennial-friendly
Paisley print patterns and quilted textures are the hallmark of the Vera Bradley brand, but the company is slowly trying to expand to reach women that aren’t college-bound or in the baby boomer set.