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Announced yesterday, the 2025 winners include Hatra, a brand by Keisuke Nagami that uses AI to inform its futuristic clothing, and Tamme, whose designer Tatsuya Tamada previously worked under Chitose Abe at Sacai.
The Build-A-Bear x Hello Kitty and Friends Workshop, which is located at the Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles, is expected to open in time for the brand’s anniversary in November.
Walmart continues to bolster the suite of supply chain services it offers to third-party sellers with the announcement of its Multichannel Solutions program.
According to Yems, due to the neglect and active closure of physical third places, accelerated by Covid, coupled with the ubiquity of social media in our lives, the online world began to occupy the role of third space.
Brands and retailers who use a customer-facing chatbot will want to ground the model in their own accurate, specific data to help mitigate results from outside sources or invented content.
The retailer is offering 0% commission fees to eligible sellers until Oct. 31 for items like dolls, action figures, trading cards, sports memorabilia, comic books, records and musical instruments, per the announcement.
The commemorative Beauty Bar comes in a tennis ball green color with a passionfruit and lemon balm fragrance and is engraved with the word “Confident.” Though the product isn’t being sold in stores, consumers can enter a giveaway now through Sept. 20 via a microsite.
Some retail media channels support cookieless and some do not today, so there is a lot of work still to be done for the fidelity of reaching customer profiles and measuring true performance to be an equal playing field.
But retail partners cited macro factors like economic instability and the upcoming election in addition to more specific hurdles like delays in fulfilling orders due to supply chain difficulties resulting in soft selling in certain categories.
But customers remained restrained with their spending, which pressured sales and overshadowed strong performance in key growth areas, like Sephora beauty, home decor, gifting and impulse buys, CEO Tom Kingsbury said during an earnings call.
As part of the collaboration, the makeup brand will offer 132 SKUs across eight categories including lip, cheek, eye and complexion products, priced between $16 to $49, according to a company press release.
Sports Innovation Lab, which bills itself as a “fan intelligence” firm building a data cloud for the industry, is tapped into audience segments drawn from across the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, WNBA, MLS and NSWL, along with entertainment venues and sports-betting platforms.