TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

powered online fashion marketplace, Shoptrue, is launching its website into beta today with plans for a public release early next year. The site offers a “One Stop Personal Shop” for the user, which gives fashion suggestions based on their style preferences. The company expects to raise additional funding in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Fashion e-commerce startup, The Folklore Group , has today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

But it raised questions as to why the brand didn’t recruit more models with the diverse characteristics it’s seeking, given the difficulty these models have had finding opportunities in the fashion industry historically. According to one survey , as of 2016, 78% of models in fashion adverts were white.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

While looking around for areas where there would be less monopoly and more ability to monetize technology, he became interested in fashion. Its virtual dressing room product is now live on many fashion e-commerce platforms, including Zalora-Global Fashion Group, one of the largest fashion companies in Southeast Asia, Li said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We wear sunglasses to keep the sun out of our eyes, but they have always been a piece of fashion. Stoggles co-founders Max Greenberg and Rahul Khatri think the fashion label should also apply to protective eyewear. Both were working together at another fashion eyewear company when the global pandemic hit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Bearing the brunt of the impact is the fashion industry, which employs millions of workers at retail stores, suppliers, and manufacturing factories around the world. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

French fashion and luxury group Kering is leading the round with Tiger Global Management. The startup operates an online marketplace where you can find pre-owned luxury and fashion items. As you may have noticed, it’s been a bit harder to travel and buy fashion items in store. Kering now owns 5% of Vestiaire Collective.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing round as the young firm looks to build “a global fashion brand” from the South Asian market. For example, for women, only ~25% of fashion is branded apparel.

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QBurst

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Customer interest in fashion is at its peak thanks to social media and the growing interest in cultivating distinct personal styles. Consumption isn’t just about the lowest price anymore, but also about curating a lifestyle and expressing a certain fashion sensibility.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

For example, in the fashion retail industry, an assistant powered by agents and multimodal models can provide customers with a personalized and immersive experience. In this post, we implement a fashion assistant agent using Amazon Bedrock Agents and the Amazon Titan family models.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

A few years ago Kathleen Chan , the CEO and founder of Calico , launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Because of the unpredictable nature of the fashion industry, fashion brands often have to “guestimate” demand for their products, and if they get that demand wrong, they have to deal with the wasted inventory. All too often clothes end up being incinerated unnecessarily, adding to their environmental impact.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

fashion rental marketplace — has raised $5.4 HURR launched in 2019 and has a hybrid business model, combining peer-to-peer fashion rentals, direct partnerships with fashion outlets and a white-label service with retailers such as Selfridges Rental. HURR — a “Rent the Runway” style U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. She made a pivot into fashion after winning a competition for an editorial mentorship at British Marie Claire. per-month ‘personal shopper’ service for men’s fashion. It has now raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When you think of green, climate-aware industries, you’d be forgiven if fashion isn’t at the top of your list. Not a moment too soon, either — the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and shipping combined, representing around 10% of greenhouse gases every year, the BBC reports.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Textiles and garments contribute 16% of Vietnam’s total GPD, but it’s challenging for small garment brands to take advantage of the country’s manufacturing prowess. Inflow is stepping into the gap, with a platform that gives small brands visibility into manufacturers’ supply chains and the design-to-production cycle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. She made a pivot into fashion after winning a competition for an editorial mentorship at British Marie Claire. per-month ‘personal shopper’ service for men’s fashion. It has now raised $1.7

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If there is one universal truth, it’s that fashion is fickle. In the apparel industry, what’s in fashion one day may be out of fashion the next. That way, you can keep up with ever-changing demand and stay in fashion with your retailer customers — as Crystal International Group, Ltd.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Moreover, the most luxurious fashion brands don’t necessarily want to put a cheaper price tag on their items in their own stores. And because some brands are reluctant about selling outdated items, Otrium tries to be as friendly as possible with fashion companies. Otrium raises $26 million to sell end-of-season fashion items.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

And the company also has fashion on the brain. Or Natural Fiber Welding , which is backed by none other than the omnipresent eco-conscious fashion accessory adorning the feet of almost every venture investor — Allbirds (or are Atoms the new thing? Image Credits: Ecovative Design. I can’t keep up…).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How should the fashion company scale its adaptive fashion line?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fraud protection? That approach seemed to go out the window with the rise of generalized LLMs, but the fact is generalized […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This material has been a cornerstone in the fashion industry for centuries, and its popularity shows no signs of fading. Providing a diverse array of options in apparel, it continues to dominate the wardrobes of fashion enthusiasts around the globe. It transcends fashion cycles and remains stylish regardless of current trends.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 14, 2022

The French businessman is the driving force behind some of the biggest luxury fashion brands in the world. The post LVMH’s Bernard Arnault: The Extraordinary CEO (Europe’s richest person’s Fashion Empire) appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. The central rationale of this discussion is to explore more about […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Seemingly, much of Maisonette’s traction owes to the trust it has built with customers, who see its offerings as high-end yet accessible relative to the many high-end fashion brands that are also increasingly focused on the children’s market, like Gucci and Burberry. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fashion is a powerful form of self-expression, yet it has not always been accessible to everyone. Enter adaptive clothing—a transformative and inclusive approach to design that seeks to make fashion a source of empowerment for people of all abilities.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 22, 2024

To solve this problem, this post shows you how to predict domain-specific product attributes from product images by fine-tuning a VLM on a fashion dataset using Amazon SageMaker , and then using Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions using the predicted attributes as input.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 14, 2023

The post Technology will change the fashion industry for good. Although the 2D software had been around since 1982, most of the drafting was still being done by hand. Soon, computer-aided design […]. Why is it taking so long? appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 29, 2024

My colleagues are often involved in modernizing legacy systems, and our approach is to do this in an incremental fashion. Doing this with a mobile application raises some specific challenges.

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Dataiku

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

AI has been part of the equation in fashion for years — if you’ve shopped online, you’ve probably experienced AI-powered styling (whether you knew it or not).

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Adaptive architecture is a feature of agile software development and is also a source of competitive advantage in the fashion industry. Nike's collaboration with Virgil Abloh on "The Ten" is an example of how these principles play out. By Gabriel Sampaio.

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Dataiku

MAY 31, 2021

On the heels of the devastating economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fashion industry is beginning to pick up the pieces and build a path forward.

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CEO Insider

MAY 18, 2021

Fashion leads and shapes ideas on a global level, and we should be doing that not just for the industry, but for business as a whole. As fashion brands look to provide beautiful pieces that may push the boundaries of design, we must also look […]. Behind everything we do, there must be a deeper purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Retailers can use discounting to generate sales without damaging a brand’s reputation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Although both Shein and Forever 21 are known for affordable fast fashion, they cater to customers in different ways. “We are excited for the partnership with Shein as it reflects our shared vision of providing customers with unparalleled access to fashion at affordable prices,” said Sparc Group CEO Marc Miller in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion could lay the path toward a zero-waste and more sustainable future.

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