Amazon Aims at Temu With Low-Priced Storefront
The e-commerce giant has launched Haul, a new low-cost online storefront aimed at competing with Temu, offering affordable products with longer shipping times and a $3.99 delivery fee [...]
BoF VOICES 2024: Fashion’s Next Moves
Industry insiders including designers Simon Porte Jacquemus and Glenn Martens, H&M CEO Daniel Ervér, e-commerce executives Lauren Santo Domingo and Michael Kliger and more spoke about key challenges and opportunities for their businesses and fashion at large. Meanwhile, McKinsey provided an outlook for 2025. [...]
Julie Bornstein Unveils the ‘ChatGPT of Shopping’ at BoF VOICES 2024
In the first public demonstration of her new AI shopping platform, Daydream, the fashion e-commerce veteran outlined her vision of how generative AI will transform product search and discovery. [...]
BoF VOICES 2024: The Next Phase of Generative AI
In the third session of VOICES, some of fashion’s most promising innovators grappled with the costs and benefits of this century’s most exciting technology. [...]
Every Fashion Label Wants a Beauty Brand. Is There Room for All of Them?
Amid a luxury fashion slowdown, brands are launching full beauty lines at a record pace as they jostle to find their position in a crowded market. [...]
Exclusive: H&M to Collaborate with Glenn Martens
The buzzy Belgian designer known for his work at Y/Project and Diesel will create a collection for the Swedish fast-fashion giant, CEO Daniel Ervér and Martens revealed at BoF VOICES 2024. The move is part of a wider push to reassert H&M’s fashion credentials. [...]
Working-class young people are being ‘blocked’ from the creative industries
A new report from the Sutton Trust has found that young people from working-class backgrounds are less likely to study creative subjects than their wealthier counterparts, with those from affluent, upper-middle class backgrounds subsequently overrepresented in the arts industry. While only 7 per cent of people educated in the UK [...]
The story behind Emilia Perez, Netflix’s polarising trans gangster musical
“I sincerely hate musicals,” declares Karla Sofía Gascón in English, only for her interpreter to query if that’s what she meant to say. “No, I hate musicals,” Gascón insists. “There’s only one musical I love, and it’s called Emilia Pérez.” Gascón, a 52-year-old Spanish actress, is speaking to me a day [...]
We need to talk about Elon Musk’s X
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 (and renamed it X) he was widely seen as a deluded narcissist, who’d just blown $44 billion to have his subpar memes beamed directly into our newsfeeds. In the following years, though, a darker picture emerged, as hate speech and other read more [...]
What went down at HM and NTS’ Stockholm takeover
Last week, Hamp;M’s global event series rolled into Stockholm for a second time, to celebrate the high street brand’s latest Holiday 2024 collection and Hamp;M Beauty. Following stops in London, Milan and Paris, Hamp;M’s event series has brought their festive collection alive with a distinct fusion of 60s and 70s [...]