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13 signals · 9 editions +450%
Velocity: 11 signals this week vs 2 last week
Business of Fashion (7)Hypebeast (1)Retail Dive (1)TechCrunch (1)Bloomberg (1)
Dover Street Market opens first spa whilst beauty becomes its growth engine
The cool kids' retail temple acknowledges beauty is where the margin lives now.
Business of Fashion · 2026-03-05
Whoop adds 600 staff ahead of IPO whilst wearables race becomes infrastructure play
Fitness trackers are transitioning from gadgets to essential utilities. This is pre-IPO scaling.
Business of Fashion · 2026-03-05
Dover Street Market debuts spa pop-up, making skincare a retail entertainment format
Beauty retail is borrowing from hospitality. Experience as distribution channel, not just merchandising.
Business of Fashion · 2026-03-04
Molly Sims’ Yse Beauty Appoints New CEO
Doreen Arbel, a veteran of L’Oréal and Charlotte Tilbury, becomes the label’s first chief executive as it prepares...
Business of Fashion · 2026-03-03
OpenAI agrees to Pentagon bulk data analysis after Anthropic publicly refused last week
The safeguards OpenAI touted Friday are exactly what Anthropic walked away from. One company's red line, another's compromise.
MIT Technology Review · 2026-03-02
Iran strikes disrupt e-commerce delivery to Middle East's fastest-growing market for fashion
Geopolitics now directly impacts Shein delivery times. Fast fashion relies on air corridors that close during bombing campaigns.
Business of Fashion · 2026-03-02
Stake claims 4% of all Bitcoin transactions through celebrity-driven casino platform
Drake isn't just an influencer anymore—he's critical infrastructure for crypto liquidity flows.
Bloomberg · 2026-03-01
New AI influencer agency Devotion pitches brands on post-follower era marketing strategy
When follower counts stop mattering, someone will sell you the next vanity metric instead.
Vogue · 2026-03-01
OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’
TechCrunch · 2026-02-28
Instagram and TikTok algorithm chaos reminds brands they're renting not owning distribution
Platform dependency finally recognised as existential risk, not growth hack.
Business of Fashion · 2026-02-27
Warby Parker profits whilst building AI glasses—eyewear brands control wearable real estate
The companies that normalised things on faces now control the gateway to ambient computing.
Retail Dive · 2026-02-26
Liquid Death × Spotify urn speaker: luxury absurdism meets functional design.
Hypebeast · 2026-02-25
Pat McGrath Labs shopped again—beauty brands still hunting their exit.
Business of Fashion · 2026-02-25