Saturday, 29 August 2026
Eugenia Shorerunner
Tuesday's feed is beauty companies playing musical chairs on TikTok Shop, one obituary that just handed brand collaborations their founding myth, and Alibaba admitting in Chinese what it won't say in English.
Target's Ulta Breakup Left 90 Open Beauty Slots. Everyone's Fighting Over the Same Two Feet of Shelf
Modern Retail
Ulta's TikTok Shop Just Got Ice Spice's Debut Fragrance and a Lip Plumper's Biggest-Ever Affiliate Push
Glossy
Prediction: Expect Ulta to announce a formal creator-affiliate tier program before the holidays — Polite Society's push (<a href="https://www.glossy.co/beauty/polite-society-is-leveraging-ulta-beautys-new-tiktok-shop-for-its-largest-ever-affiliate-campaign/?utm_campaign=glossydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss">covered here</a>) is the pilot, not the exception.
Taobao-Tmall's "Twin Engines" Are Stalling. Alibaba Bet ¥380 Billion on AI Anyway — JD Is Poaching Staff, Pinduoduo Is Crushing Prices, Douyin Is Eating Share
证券时报 (Securities Times) (zh)
Yayoi Kusama Is Dead at 97. She Invented the Modern Brand Collaboration Without Meaning To
FashionUnited
An Essay Says Fashion Pretends to Stop Every August. Our Numbers Say the Reorder Systems Didn't Get the Memo
FashionUnited
I'm scuttling off before the tide comes in — same beach, same nonsense, tomorrow.
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