A new shopping platform is giving consumers the upper hand on identifying what celebrities are wearing. On Wednesday, Bobby Maylack, former chief creative officer at Cameo, and Emir Talu, a founding team member at Blank Street, launched OneOff, an AI-driven fashion discovery platform that blends personalization, social inspiration and e-commerce. The two entrepreneurs joined forces…
After years of pandemic-accelerated digital transformation, fashion and beauty consumers are more digitally connected than ever before — yet meaningful engagement with these consumers feels increasingly elusive. Customers increasingly expect seamless integration between digital and physical touchpoints — where online behaviour informs their in-store experience, and vice versa. However, these functions and data learnings remain…
Fashion and beauty retail stands at a critical inflexion point where digital transformation meets physical retail demand. With 70 percent of retail sales now digitally influenced, according to The Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company’s The State of Fashion 2025 report, the industry faces unprecedented complexity in managing customer relationships across the shopping journey….
Aditi Rasquinha, CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Greater China. (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Major German logistics service provider DHL Group is reinforcing its strategic focus on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, pledging to strengthen its presence in the region by leveraging its sound infrastructure network and robust “new three items” and e-commerce development. “The…
President Trump appeared to suggest on Friday that a deal to separate TikTok from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had been approved by China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. In a post on Truth Social after a call with Mr. Xi, Mr. Trump wrote, “The call was a very good one, we will be speaking again by…
New Delhi: India is considering a pilot project to allow foreign-funded e-commerce companies to buy goods from local vendors, stock them, and sell to consumers abroad, in a shift away from the current rules that permit these firms to operate only as a marketplace, connecting buyers and sellers. The plan is likely to be launched…
The fintech company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later company, has made its highly anticipated public debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the latest in a run of high-profile initial public offerings this year. Klarna sold 34.3 million shares to investors at $40 a…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved without conditions the merger of DHL eCommerce UK and Evri, the parcel delivery company. The deal, announced on September 4, 2025, will proceed to completion once all regulatory approvals are received, creating a new combined entity called Evri Group. According to the companies, Evri Group will…
Fashion’s multi-brand retailers are under pressure with Canadian e-tailer Ssense the latest to feel the heat. Last month, the ailing Gen-Z favourite, once valued at more than $4 billion, said it was filing for bankruptcy protection, citing mounting debt amid changes to US trade policy, after creditors pushed for a sale. The news came just…
Please log in to ensure you can read our agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice. Or get in touch at support@businessoffashion.com if you experience difficulties. Meesho, one of India’s largest e-tailers, has filed papers with local market regulators to launch an IPO later this year. The cheap and cheerful app aims to raise 42.5 billion rupees…