Fashion

Depop launches a fashion collaging tool to style Pinterest-worthy outfits

Media & Entertainment /

Fashion resale app Depop announced on Wednesday the launch of a new styling and collaging tool, designed specifically for users who love creating fashion collages. Named “Outfits,” the new feature provides a moodboard-like interface, allowing users to design curated outfits to share with followers or inspire their next look.  To use the feature, users can […]

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How Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni used Gen Z methods to raise $8M for Phia

Venture /

There’s a new buzzy fashion startup in town. Meet Phia, the shopping app founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe and her Stanford roommate-slash co-founder, Sophia Kianni.  Phia searches the web to help users compare the price of fashion items. It’s a mobile app and browser extension that’s essentially “Google flights for fashion,” as the company

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Fashion retailers partner to offer personalized AI styling tool ‘Ella’

AI /

The luxury membership platform Vivrelle, which allows customers to rent high-end goods, announced Thursday the launch of an AI personal styling tool called Ella as part of its partnership with fashion retailers Revolve and FWRD. The launch is an example of how the fashion industry is leveraging AI technology to enhance customer experiences and is

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Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

Startups /

Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar.  She has tried to build such a product numerous times in the past, “but the AI

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Lyst, a fashion marketplace once valued at $700M, sells to Japan’s Zozo for $154M

Commerce /

Fashion goes in and out of style, and it turns out, so do fashion startups. Lyst, a high-end fashion marketplace that was once valued at $700 million, has been acquired for just $154 million in cash by Zozo, a Japan-based fashion and e-commerce business. Zozo owns a number of fashion brands that include Wear by

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CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees

Startups /

CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and later became an inventory monetization platform for clothing retailers, is facing financial difficulties, the company confirmed to TechCrunch following a report by Axios. Citing a letter from the board, Axios reported that the company is almost out of money, CEO Christine

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Fashion startup CaaStle appears to be in trouble

Startups /

CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and in 2018 became an inventory monetization platform for clothing retailers, is facing financial difficulties, reports Axios. The company is almost out of money, CEO Christine Hunsicker has resigned, and law enforcement is investigating alleged financial misconduct, Axios reported, citing a leaked

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Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem with online resales

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The fashion industry has concerned Emily Gittins since adolescence.  The sector is, after all, one of the most polluting in the world. According to some sources, it is responsible for nearly 10% of the earth’s CO2 emissions and more than 20% of all water waste.  Yet people still want more, fast.  “The way we consume

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