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🦾 $5B Smart Ring Company Just Got Smarter 💄 Paris Hilton's Beauty Tech Empire 🧸 Ralph Lauren's AI + 3D Polo Bear

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Welcome to 🪩 The Digital Runway—where Beauty, Fashion, Tech & AI connect! Your weekly dose of trends, insights, and tips to futureproof your style and strategy.

This Week’s Highlights—Issue #033

1️⃣ Janey’s AI Edit – AI Tips, Prompts + 💄👗 Hacks
🦃 Thanksgiving ChatGPT prompts for stress free hosting and potlucks

2️⃣ The Weekly SwipeQuick Links to Must-Reads 📲

4️⃣ Behind the ScreensFresh Content & Lessons Learned 🎬
🎙️ Podcast EP. 3: AI Fashion

5️⃣ The Runway DiariesBTS, Story Time & Real Talk 🫖 
🙏 Gratitude + Ordering Smart Rings

📰 New here? 📮 Don’t miss outSubscribe or explore the archives

 🦾 JANEY’S AI EDIT 

🦃 Plan Thanksgiving Like a Pro with ChatGPT

Hosting or potluck-bound? Let AI handle the prep:

🦃 For Hosts
"I’m hosting Thanksgiving for [X guests]. [Y are vegetarian, Z are gluten-free]. Budget: $[amount]. Can you create:
1️⃣ A menu with recipes (apps, mains, sides, dessert)
2️⃣ A shopping list and cooking timeline
3️⃣ Table décor ideas + tasks to delegate?"

🥧 For Potluck Guests
"I’m bringing a dish to a Thanksgiving potluck for [X people]. It needs to fit [dietary restrictions]. Suggest 3 easy crowd-pleasing dishes with recipes and presentation tips."

Try these prompts and share your Thanksgiving Photos—I’d love to hear!

It’s Not Too Late to Drive Black Friday Sales

Black Friday marks the most streamed period of the year on Roku, and Roku Ads Manager makes it easy to reach your audience during this all-important kickoff to the holiday season. Roku’s self-serve platform lets you set up, optimize, and measure CTV campaigns in real-time so you can focus on driving results. Plus, innovative ad formats like Action Ads let viewers instantly engage with your brand and even shop directly on-screen with a click of their remote – perfect for holiday shopping.

 📲 THE WEEKLY SWIPE

📲 Here’s what you need to swipe this week

🕶️ Bitmoji x Prada & Miu Miu [WWD]
🤑 Printemps Now Accepts Crypto [WWD]
🎮 Fortnite x Nike Jordan Collab [Hypebeast]
🛍️ Tapestry-Capri Merger Blocked [Vogue Business]
🌟 Charli XCX’s Times Square Concert for H&M [Glossy]

👠 RUNWAY RADAR

🧸 Ralph Lauren’s AI & 3D Powered Polo Bear

📚 What You Need to Know

Ralph Lauren uses AI and 3D animation to bring its iconic Polo Bear to life in holiday window displays.

Source: Ralph Lauren

  • 🏙️ Immersive Displays
    In NYC, the bear waves, dances, and takes selfies in an Art Deco penthouse. Elsewhere, it sips Ralph’s Coffee, sews ties, and spreads holiday cheer.

  • 🎬 Viral Moment
    A 3D cinematic clip on social shows the Polo Bear traveling to NYC by train blending Fashion and Lifestyle.

💡 Why This Matters

Ralph Lauren redefines retail by blending tradition with tech, creating immersive shopping experiences that invite customers into its world—from sipping ☕️ at Ralph’s Coffee to shopping its latest collections. Storytelling + Product Placement = Subtle Selling.

 🔗 Read more on WWD

🩺 Oura x Dexcom: $75M Partnership Revolutionizing Wearable Tech

📚 What You Need to Know

Oura (smart rings for sleep + wellness) secured $75M in Series D funding from Dexcom (glucose-monitoring leader), valuing the company at $5B.

Source: Oura Ring

🔑 Key Highlights

  • 📈 Metabolic Insights: Two-way data sharing to track food + glucose impact (launching 1H 2025)

  • 🛍️ Market Momentum: 2.5M rings sold and $500M projected 2024 revenue

💡 Why This Matters

This partnership tackles metabolic health challenges for 88% of Americans by combining Dexcom’s expertise with Oura’s wearable insights, setting a new standard for wearable health tech.

🛒 Shop Now: Oura Ring 3 l Oura Ring 4

🔗 Read more on Tech Crunch

💖 Paris Hilton Launches Beauty Tech: 11:11 Beauty x Guthy-Renker

📚 What You Need to Know

Paris Hilton partnered with beauty giant Guthy-Renker to launch 11:11 Beauty, blending tech with wellness. The first collection launches Spring 2025.

🔑 Key Highlights

  • 💄 Major Stake: Paris enters the beauty world as a majority shareholder

  • 🚀 Track Record: Hilton’s brands have driven $4B+ in global retail sales

💡 Why This Matters

Paris leverages her star power and Guthy-Renker’s expertise to disrupt the beauty space with tech-driven innovation. She has been one of the early movers in metaverse and tech.

🔗 Read more on Fashion United

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🎬 BEHIND THE SCREENS

🎉 Celebrating my YouTube 1 Month Anniversary!

One month on YouTube with 3 Videos, 3 Podcast Episodes and 32 subscribers.

🔑 Lesson Learned: Start a YouTube channel if you create video content—searchability is gold.

P.S. 🙌 Subscribe now & help me hit 50 subs by November 🙏

🎙️ ICYMI: The Digital Runway Podcast EP. 3

I spoke with Wildy Martinez, a designer blending physical and AI fashion.

💡 Highlights:
🤖 How AI is reshaping design
🗺️ Her transition from physical to AI fashion
❤️‍🩹 Sharing her Vitiligo journey and art as therapy

🎥 Watch & Listen 🎬 YouTube l 🎧 Spotify 🍏 Apple

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👉 Let’s Connect: Community Calls & Spotlights!

The Digital Runway is about us not just me. Here’s how I want to build community:

🗓️ Monthly Calls: Starting December—let’s connect, problem-solve, and spill tea. Got ideas for this call? Hit reply!

⚡️ Spotlights: Starting January—I’ll highlight your projects, businesses, or wins in the newsletter if you’re a part of The Digital Runway community.

👀 Stay tuned because we’re just getting started.

✍️ THE RUNWAY DIARIES

To every reader, sharer, and supporter—THANK YOU. Your engagement fuels me as a solopreneur and content creator, and I celebrate every win, big or small (yes, I do happy dances). 🥲 Let’s keep building something amazing together. 💖 

🧪 Test, Learn, and Swipe
Say hi to 📲 The Weekly Swipe—a new section featuring must-know headlines ONLY to keep this newsletter digestible, valuable, and worth your time. Let me know if it’s working? 👀

Wearable Tech Testing
No Samsung Galaxy Ring for me (iPhone user here 🫠), but I’m trying Oura + Evie Rings next. Eyeing the Oura Ring 3 (not much changed in the Oura Ring 4) plus that Black Friday price? Got smart ring recs? Let me know!

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