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How James Scully Became Modeling’s Whistle-Blower, Brioni CEO Departs, Philip Green's $450M Pension [View on Web]( [Add to contacts]( [New reader? Subscribe]( [BoF]( THE DAILY DIGEST TODAY'S MUST READ [In France, A New Awakening?]( BY Limei Hoang [As Paris Fashion Week kicks off, there’s evidence that France is finally modernising.]( [Read more]( TOP STORIES [Natalie Massenet Joins Farfetch as Co-Chairman]( BY Limei Hoang [Nearly a year and a half after her departure from Net-a-Porter, Natalie Massenet has confirmed she is joining fashion e-commerce platform Farfetch as co-chairman.]( [Read more]( [Op-Ed | Why Retail Is Getting 'Experience' Wrong]( BY Doug Stephens [Most customer experience design is just fresh icing on the same stale cake, argues Doug Stephens, founder of Retail Prophet.]( [Read more]( [Perverse Subversion at Saint Laurent]( BY Tim Blanks [Anthony Vaccarello’s pistols were loaded, but he was firing blanks in comparison to the shots that Yves Saint Laurent took in his glory days.]( [Read more]( [Brioni Chief Executive Gianluca Flore Departs, Ren Hang Remembered]( BY BoF Team [In today's News Bites, Gianluca Flore's departs Brioni and Chinese photographer Ren Hang to be remembered at Paris Fashion Week.]( [Read more]( NEWS BRIEFS [Philip Green Pledges Up to $450M in BHS Pension Settlement]( [BHS had a pension deficit of at least £571 million when it failed last April, a year after Green sold it for a pound.]( [Tommy Hilfiger Looks to Technology as It Combats Macy's Decline]( [The PVH-owned business is increasingly relying on social media to target millennials and reinvigorate a brand that’s closely linked to the ’90s.]( [Burberry Surges as Belgian Investor Albert Frere Buys 3 Pct Stake]( [The shares were up as much as 5.9 percent in London on Tuesday afternoon, to the highest since May 2015.]( [Boohoo Rating Prices in Either Superstardom or Amazon Bid]( [Even if Boohoo stumbles, there's always the possibility that Amazon's interest in apparel could lead to it not just being a seller of fashion, but a buyer too. Â]( [Fake Fashion Fuels Vast Illicit Profits, Sea of Human Misery]( [Annual trade in fake products is worth around 2.5 percent of total global trade, or about $18 trillion, with the money fuelling organised crime, terrorism and the trafficking of drugs, people, sex and wildlife.]( [Coty's CoverGirl Transformation Won't Be Easy-Breezy]( [The $14 billion company will clean up and grow into itself...eventually. It will just take time and a lot of patience from Coty investors. Â]( [Target Shares Drop on Plan to Adopt Wal-Mart's Discount Playbook]( [Target’s new strategy follows a gameplan employed over the past year by Wal-Mart.]( [DAILY DIGEST Fashion News from Around the Web]( 1 [The Future of Shopping Is More Discrimination]( ["Merchants can offer different people different prices online and offline for the same products, via smartphones—based on what they know about them."]( Atlantic]( 2 [How James Scully Became Modeling’s Whistle-Blower]( ["He criticized by name Balenciaga’s casting directors, Maida Gregori Boina and Rami Fernandes, for an incident in which models were allegedly locked in a dark stairway for over three hours."]( 3 [Beauty Brands Are Using Video to Turn You Into a Brand Addict]( ["Brands said they increased their use of videos last year by 73 percent, and according to Cisco, video made up 60 percent of total mobile data traffic in 2016."]( 4 [China’s Daigou Shoppers Hit Fashion Weeks to Build Credibility With Clients]( ["For Daigou shoppers, attending fashion weeks around the world can add a layer of authenticity to their business."]( Daily]( 5 [The Invisible Man: Dries van Noten]( ["The life of a fashion designer. It’s all parties, stress and breakdowns, isn’t it? Not if you ask Dries Van Noten."]( Magazine]( FROM THE ARCHIVE [John Galliano on Being Comfortable With Chaos]( BY BoF Team [Master Haute Couturier John Galliano joined BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks on the VOICES stage, to discuss 'Creativity in the Digital Age.']( [Read more]( [Subscribe Were you forwarded this email? To subscribe to this newsletter, click below.]( for Free]( [BoF CAREERS - FEATURED JOBS]( [People Business Partner]( [Farfetch]( London, United Kingdom [Group E Commerce Executive]( [Meli Melo]( London, United Kingdom [Division Manager - GAP and Banana Republic, Al Tayer Group Dubai]( [Al Tayer Group]( Dubai, United Arab Emirates [Merchandise Planner]( [Jimmy Choo]( London, United Kingdom [Director, Global Digital Education Development, Estee Lauder]( [Estée Lauder Companies]( New York, United States [Senior Product Manager - NEO Guy's APP]( [Adidas]( Shanghai, China [View All Jobs]( Follow Us [The Business of Fashion]( [Sponsorship & Advertising]( [About]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Add to Address Book]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Edit Newsletter Subscriptions]( The Business of Fashion Moray House - 6th Floor · 23-31 Great Titchfield St London W1W 7PA · United Kingdom