It would be all too easy for your inner high school mean girl to instantly dislike Jenn Hyman. Not only is she girl-crush gorgeous, but she heads up Rent the Runway, which is, you know, like only one of the most talked-about fashion and tech companies on the planet. She has a fabulous wardrobe, a [...]
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Digital style news you really want to know… Online lingerie club AdoreMe announced $2.5 million in funding this week, as well as plans to expand into the swimwear category. via BusinessWire In the latest old media-joins-forces-with-new-media collab, online shopping club Beyond the Rack and Redbook magazine are teaming up to find a “real woman” for [...]
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The basics: Though it’s kept a fairly low profile on the media front since launching in late August 2011, this style-focused person-to-person social marketplace and iPhone app from Yardsellr reports solid user engagement of over 1 million items “liked” thus far. A full 300,000 of those likes hail from Style.ly’s vintage coterie, the [...]
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We’ve rounded up seven great gifts for guys that cover all the bases: audiophiles, fashion phobes, do-gooders, gadget nuts, grooming addicts and those impossible men that already seem to have it all. The best part? You can still snag most of ‘em before Father’s Day. Joey Roth ceramic speakers: A super cool melding of sleek [...]
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A notably brief six weeks after its official launch and initial funding announcement, San Francisco-based fashion startup Threadflip is out with a second Series A funding announcement today and news of its new iPhone app. The arrival of the mobile app makes Threadflip one of the few person-to-person marketplaces focused on fashion to boast both [...]
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Spend any amount of time rattling around the Bay Area fashion and technology scene, and you’re bound to run into Tracy Sun. The Poshmark co-founder and current VP of marketing has spent the better part of the past year building her company’s person-to-person style marketplace into the go-to iPhone app for fashion fans to buy [...]
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