Girls, you can applaud the collapse of a sartorial gender barrier today. San Francisco-based apparel startup American Giant has (finally!) launched a collection for women. It’s welcome news that the ladies can now partake in tees, tanks and hoodies from the direct-to-consumer e-commerce label hailed as the source for “the greatest hoodie ever made” by Slate, [...]
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That a company launches gift cards would not be news that I could call serious or noteworthy with a straight face unless, no lie, I had not actually looked to see if Stitch Fix gift cards were available no fewer than three times, only to find out that, no, they weren’t (only to forget and [...]
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Current shopping app intrigue: Lasso, a San Francisco-based fashion startup proposes to help you find exactly what you’re looking for in local boutiques with the help of people who are, like, real living thinking breathing humans that might actually know a thing or two about style. It’s only available in San Francisco at the moment, [...]
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At the first anniversary fete for Sneakpeeq held late last month in the company’s new and expanded office space, the social shopping platform opened its doors to an invite-only crowd of friends, fashion and tech media and designers behind the many creative items offered up to its audience during limited-time, themed sales. With a [...]
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The Social Edge Summit held earlier this month drew a diverse line-up of entrepreneurs and social media experts to San Francisco’s Madrone Studios for a day-long pow-wow that also saw the debut of a new conference platform from Bumebox (a really intriguing company responsible for some pretty innovative digital stuff during New York Fashion [...]
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When San Francisco Fashion Week kicks off on Monday, you’ll notice a little something different about the approach to fashion: a serious emphasis on the intersection of fashion and tech. While it’s certainly no surprise that fashion fans in the Bay often have one foot in technology and the other on in a pair of [...]
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