Real FashionTech Should Improve Infrastructure and Logistics
Talking fashion technology has become a largely consumer oriented dialogue. Wearables, customer experience, personalization, are all buzzwords that come up across topics and up and down market. Fashion...
View ArticleHow Curated E-Commerce Brands Can Flourish
The 27th Episode of the Fashion Is Your Business, featured guest Raed Alawadhi. Raed Alawadhi is a cofounder of the new curated e-commerce website Modern Look. The platform debuted a week before Open...
View ArticleMobile Is Not Meant For Conversion
There are almost 2 billion mobile users in the world. For the first time, mobile usage had recently surpassed desktop usage. By 2020, it is projected that smartphone usage will grow to 4 billion...
View ArticleWhen Wearable Tech Becomes Clothing
Imagine a day when wearable tech doesn’t necessitate you look like Jay Jetson.
View ArticleFashion Specifically For Everyone: Customizable Products
Now you can customize your shoes with just a click, and have them shipped to your door – anywhere in the world.
View ArticleA Quick Look at Fast Fashion and The Long-Lasting Effects
Recently, people have taken more notice of what goes into their food; not just the ingredients, but also how it’s made, who is making it and where it’s from. A similar wave of curiousness and...
View ArticleHere is The Latest in Visual Discovery of Fashion
New York City is buzzing with excitement as Fashion week comes to an end. Celebrities, editors, buyers, and the generally well heeled flocked to runway shows across the city to discover upcoming trends...
View ArticleThis LA Startup May Be the Only Clothing Store You Will Ever Need
Looking for that style that will never go out of style? That style which T Swift so wonderfully remarks when she sings the line “We never go out of style”? Well now there is a company that is just...
View ArticleWhy Your Pop-Up Will Not Fail: The Pop-Up Paradigm
When we learned that Melissa Gonzalez, Founder of Lion’esque Group had published a book called “The Pop-Up Paradigm,” we knew we had to get our hands on a copy right away. Here are some of our...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Ideas for Gadget Geeks
What do you get for the music junkie or the photography nerd? Matthew Lynley discusses some holiday ideas on digits.
View ArticleWhat Does Fashion Tech Mean In 2016?
In 2013, Third Wave Fashion, our favorite think tank for insights and ideas about fashion tech, tried to define what Fashion Tech meant in 2013. TWF had seen the how the space exploded with companies...
View ArticleThe First 90 Days of Building Your Startup: Tips and Takeaways After Launch
Small Business Saturday, November 28, seemed like an apt time to launch my, well, small business that supports other small businesses. IMBY kicked off with a bang, hosting our first pop-up, attracting...
View ArticleWhat Amazon is Doing for the Fashion World
Amazon wants to grow its online presence selling apparel. To attract fashion brands, it is employing a new strategy on pricing and launched a new show to spark sales.
View Article5 Things To Do To Get Into Fashion Tech
So you’re interested in joining the fast, crazy and amazing world of fashion tech, but how do you break in? It seems like a cool industry, but with all of the new technologies coming out it can be...
View ArticleA New Direction for the Runway: Up. Pop-Up.
The use of fashion weeks and runways has been discussed a lot this New York Fashion Week. There’s a prevailing sense that these institutions and concepts are being followed increasingly less because...
View ArticleExploring Enabling Technologies Through Experimentation
“Enabling technologies” is a term that people rarely use when attempting to tell a grand and seductive story in the fashion world. Companies that create these lower level tech products, also known as...
View Article5 Things To Do To Get into Fashion Tech
So you are interested in joining the fast, crazy and amazing world of fashion tech, but how do you break in? It seems like a cool industry, but with all of the new technologies coming out it can be...
View ArticleHave it Made: The Basics of the Manufacturing Process
During a recent episode of Fashion Is Your Business, with Nora Levinson and Soyoung Park of Caeden, Pavan asked Nora to walk through the process of getting their headphones and/or their bracelet...
View ArticleThe Future of Retail: Customers Getting Their Choice of the Best
Everyone wants to predict the future. In the technology and business space, there have been white papers that talk about the future of “X”: retail, technology and digital. Though there are many reports...
View ArticleThe World of Mass Fashion Customization, Part 2: On-Demand Overview
Any successful fashion brand carefully listens to what its customer wants and tries to meet demand quickly with either well-planned inventory or just in time production, fulfilled through their own...
View ArticleThe World of Mass Fashion Customization, Part 3: Analytics and Tech
From the past 2 parts of this article series, we have learned that the industry has acknowledged that a revolution in fashion production needs to take place. The feasibility of mass customization and...
View ArticleHave it Made: The Basics of the Manufacturing Process
During a recent episode of Fashion Is Your Business, with Nora Levinson and Soyoung Park of Caeden, Pavan asked Nora to walk through the process of getting their headphones and/or their bracelet...
View ArticleWhy Some Fashion Brands Release One Product at a Time
Before it became the menswear ecommerce behemoth that it is today, Bonobos began by selling one product: better-tailored khaki pants. Founders Andy Dunn and Brian Spaly wanted to solve a couple of...
View Article10 Startups That you Need to Know About From XRC Labs Demo Day
The death of retail is greatly exaggerated. XRC Labs hosted demo day for its fourth cohort, which includes ten innovative startups that are changing the face of retail. Since launching two years ago,...
View ArticleFashion Tech 101: Overview of B2C Company Types
I’ve been writing about different topics on fashion tech for over a year now, but have never really created a general article, overviewing the fashion technology start up scene. During my first meetup...
View ArticleFashion Tech 101: Overview of B2B Company Types
Continuing my articles series overviewing the business of fashion tech. Focusing on B2B companies or solutions, which help other businesses grow, make them more efficient and smart. They are usually...
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