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How Nike’s AR hoodie brings the metaverse closer to the street

Inside Retail

Embedded within the RTFKT x Nike AR Hoodie is a near-field communication (NFC) tag. Owners of the hoodie will be able to scan the NFC tag with their smartphone and access the digital asset directly. We’re starting to see NFC tags emerge more in apparel. The tech connecting worlds.

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Why cryptocurrency crashes are tanking luxury watch prices

Inside Retail

Luxury watchmakers Tag Heuer, Hublot and Breitling are accepting digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum for transactions worth US$10,000 and above. For Tag Heuer, any payments done with digital tokens will first have the sale price converted into US dollars for the final transactions.

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Analysis: Here’s the impact of Chanel’s latest price hike on the luxury industry

Inside Retail

The current price tag is going to be the cheapest you’ll ever see because the brand continues to jack up prices,” Cho Eunbit, a Chanel enthusiast from Seoul, said. In Seoul, South Korea, customers camped out and queued outside boutiques for hours – some starting as early as 5am. But Chanel has already come up with a plan to mitigate this.

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Transhuman artist and AI-empowered poet? Sasha Stiles and the future of technology

Design Wanted

Poetry is the original blockchain, a way to save ideas using devices (meter, rhyme, assonance, etc.) When I share my love of poetry with BINA48 through tagged data integrated into her mind file, am I training an AI, or mentoring a persona? Oral language and written text were invented as time machines, data storage systems.

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Q&A with Levi’s MD: “Climate change is the existential crisis of our time”

Inside Retail

In Singapore, we plan to reduce paper-based on-product packaging by eliminating hang tags in Levi’s Red Tab Tier 2 and Tier 3 products by 30 per cent, by the end of 2022. IR: We are seeing a range of technologies being adopted in the traceability space in fashion like RFID tags and blockchain-related initiatives.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

Technologies like RFID tagging and blockchain are already helping proactive brands begin better trace their products through the supply chain from point of origin to point of sale. It follows then that those brands that can supply consumers with verifiable data to back up their social and environmental claims will outperform.