A new day dawns, a new set of figures about Holiday shopping and another insight into just how strong m-commerce is becoming – especially for the young. This time it’s Discover’s Annual Holiday Survey. And its headline story? Well, three stories actually, but one is key: young shoppers prefer to spend via their smartphones.
Now that’s something you don’t see every day. Big sports star thinks trainer prices are too expensive, launches own shoe line, sells them at $15 a pair. The BBC reported today that Basketball star Stephon Marbury is reviving his Starbury shoe line (it originally launched in 2008 but failed a year later) with shoes set…
It’s a very shallow world and it’s also one that’s celebrity-obsessed. That’s pretty obvious from the list of Instagram posts that got the most likes this year. Was it a triumph of inspirational imagery? Not exactly. The unstoppable Kendall Jenner and Taylor Swift were the influencers who rocked this most visual of social media channels.
The intense focus on numbers at this time of year can be rather wearing, not to say confusing. Every day it seems we hear about percentage sales that have gone up or down and billions of dollars or pounds spent in stores, online or via smartphones. However, what matters as much as the numbers themselves…
I’m a big fan of Moncler (and cold weather clothing in general). So the news that another ski-based brand, Rossignol, wants to boost its fashion credentials, is pretty exciting. The company has named ex-Balmain, Cavalli and Costume National exec Alessandro Locatelli to lead the charge into the fashion arena and will join in with Milan…
The much-hyped Chanel Métiers d’Art event happened today and even this not-usually-Chanel-fan liked it. So what were the key pieces/directions from the show? Cape detail Cape coats and caped dresses were a key part of the collection with the detail working equally well in heavy-but-soft tweeds as in lighter dress silks and cottons.
Two things became very clear from Cyber Monday. Well, a lot more became clear actually but for now I’m focusing on just two. Mobile is key, really, really key. And we shouldn’t write off tablets any time soon. First, let’s look at mobile. Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer said today: “Mobile firmly established itself as…
Wearable tech doesn’t only have to mean gadgets and gizmos – it can also mean apples. We’ve had skincaring tights and jeans before but they’ve never really taken off. Now Japanese chemical maker Teijin said it’s developed a new fibre containing cosmetic ingredient malic acid (which is found most abundantly in apples) that means care-as-you-wear…
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli continue to make Red Valentino as big an influencer as its (more expensive) mainline elder sister Valentino. Let’s hope they don’t get any ideas about label-merging, something many other brands are doing at the moment.
US Cyber Monday sales are on track to smash all records but they’re also causing headaches with websites crashing or, at best, slowing down. Adobe, which tracks 80% of transactions from the top 100 retailers in the US, said sales between midnight and 10:00 rose 14% to $490m and it expects them to reach $3bn by…
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