Apple hires digital retail exec from Burberry for 'special projects'<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='
http://www.imore.com/apple-hires-digital-retail-exec-burberry-special-projects' title="Apple hires digital retail exec from Burberry for 'special projects'"><img src='
http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_blw/public/field/image/2014/07/apple_hq_cupertino_visitors_sign.jpg?itok=VIRjfCto' />[/url]</p> <p>Apple has made a new hire from Burberry, the fashion house once run by current Apple SVP of Retail
Angela Ahrendts. According to his
Twitter and
LinkdIn profiles, Chester Chipperfield, previously Burberry's Vice President of Digital and Interactive Design, will now be working on Special Projects at Apple.</p> <!--break--> <p>Chesterfield announced his departure from Burberry in December on
Twitter:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><p>Goodbye London. I have been lucky to call you home for 31 years, time to discover another city..
http://instagram.com/p/xJxk9mkTa3/ </p>— Chester Chipperfield (@chesterchip)
December 28, 2014 <script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Chipperfield is the latest in a long line of Apple hires for "Special Projects. It's not clear what exactly that entails, but given Chipperfield previous experience in user experience and digital retail, it's likely that he'll become part of the team for
Apple's Online Store.</p> <p>Source:
Chester Chipperfield on Twitter,
LinkdIn, via
9to5Mac</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-29553"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='
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Apple hires digital retail exec from Burberry for 'special projects'
