News to know from the intersection of fashion, style, shopping and technology… Refinery29 launches Beauty Nation, devoted to schooling readers on the latest and greatest from the beauty realm with the help of popular beauty bloggers and experts. I feel prettier already. via Refinery29 Boston-based Fashion Project grabs $1.8M in funding for its feel good [...]
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Small technological triumph that it may be, it’s welcome news that Finnish fashion label Ivana Helsinki has launched its online shop. Previously only available in very special places such as San Francisco’s Eden & Eden, the inventive line by designer Paola Ivana Suhonen is now available online and, through the end of May, at a [...]
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When it comes to wearable tech, you won’t find many fashion designers more schooled in space than Amy Winters, whose Rainbow Winters line ranges from more traditional dresses in digitally-printed fabrics to high-impact performer-friendly pieces capable of responding to light, sound and sun. Fresh from London’s fabulously geeky Kinetica Artfair held earlier this year and [...]
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Here’s an innovative way to foster customer loyalty: give shoppers a 10 percent bonus for accepting store credit instead of a refund on items returned. That’s the new policy over at Singer22.com, which has drawn a solid following of young, trendy shoppers since launching in 2003 with a selection of sought-after brands such as Elizabeth [...]
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News to know from the intersection of fashion, style and technology… Fitiquette, a San Francisco fashion startup that I first wrote about way back in 2012 and a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist in September, gets acquired by India-based company Myntra. Congrats to the team. via TechCrunch San Francisco’s style-sharing platform Lookbook.nu (a longtime player in the [...]
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Goodbye snoozy conference recaps of the past: the LuckyFABB social media wall is a great example of the ways event organizers are amplifying the conversations taking place during (or simply inspired by) their gatherings. Powered by realtime social software company Livefyre, the media wall is part of the magazine’s two-day LuckyFABB conference for fashion bloggers, [...]
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