Green People: Queen Of Raw Gives Life To Fashion’s Deadstock

The company is a “matchmaker” between deadstock fabric (which would otherwise be burned or landfilled) and local buyers using blockchain.

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WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton On Why Privacy Matters

The cofounder of the messaging service and the current chair of the Signal Foundation talks about the proliferation of end-to-end encryption in personal communications.

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This Tech Can Turn Your Old Jeans Into A Brand New Pair Of Jeans

At its factory, Renewcell takes used cotton fabrics and turns them into new, clean fibers that are ready to be made into new clothes.

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Revolve, Buoyed By Young Shoppers, Returns To Profitability

The company’s revenue rose 23 per cent in the third quarter, but inventory management remains a problem.

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Luxury Travel Has To Make Sense Of All 5 Senses

In the world of wellness, resort spas are adding healing treatments involving sound to their menus.

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Three Misconceptions About Diversity In Business

Many businesses pay lip service to diversity. Yet when it comes to implementation, many fall into the traps that prevent them from making serious progress.

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'Sheet Masks Are The New Plastic Straws' – The Movement To Streamline Your Skincare

For a long time beauty routines only seemed to get more elaborate. But thanks to environmental concerns – as well as questions about the effectiveness of layering products - some corners of the industry are finally arguing that less is more.

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Reebok Looks To The Future With A Unified Vector

Reebok has closed stores, increased eco-friendly products and teamed up with collaborators to try to be more competitive.

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Swarovski Sponsors New Parsons School Program For Circular Fashion Design, Materiality And Sustainability

Crystal and jewelry designer Swarovski will work with New York’s Parsons School of Design to launch a new studio course that reimagines the future of fashion design, materiality and sustainability.

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Richemont Forges Ahead In Turbulent Climate For Hard And Soft Luxury

The luxury giant's top and bottom lines are under pressure from myriad internal, and external, market forces.

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Corneliani To Cut 130 Factory Jobs

The trade unions organized a two-day strike to protest the company's decision.

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Inside Le Tote’s $100 Million Bet To Rebuild Lord & Taylor

The newly combined companies are integrating onto a single technology platform and making over a 38-store network in an effort to reach profitability.

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Instagram To Start Hiding Like Counts In The U.S.

Instagram likes are about to disappear from public view for many more users: The Facebook-owned photo sharing service is getting ready to hide like counts from U.S. users as early as next week, CEO Adam Mosseri announced at a Wired event in San Francisco Friday.

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Alibaba Singles’ Day Set To Challenge $31 Billion Record

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Singles’ Day shopping bonanza got off to a scorching start, logging more than 114 billion yuan ($16.3 billion) of purchases in less than 90 minutes, the equivalent of more than half of last year’s record haul for the 24-hour event.

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Tampons Will No Longer Be Taxed As Luxury Items, After Landmark German Vote

What do wine, cigarettes and tampons have in common? They're all classed as "luxury goods" in Germany and taxed at the highest possible rate.

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Adobe Pushes Into Consumer Space With Photoshop App

Adobe’s new AI-powered camera app is the start of a big push into consumer software.

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Ferrari Revs Up Luxury Fashion Offerings With Armani Partnership

Ferrari has entered a “long-term manufacturing agreement” with Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani Group.

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Literary Festivals Are Not A Luxury, A Bauble For The Middle Classes

To be human is more than simply to survive. It is also to imagine.

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How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

We’re not feckless teens anymore; we’re grown-ass adults, and the challenges we face aren’t fleeting, but systemic.

The Sunday Slow ReadJustina ShpotaNovember 10, 2019November

The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Revealed

The next big Costume Institute show will look at the concept of time, with the help of Virginia Woolf, obscure French philosophy and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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