If you have a design in mind for a piece of jewellery, generative AI now lets you create a realistic rendering of it. The start-up …
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New York’s Fashion and Beauty Startup Scene Is Having a Moment
NEW YORK, United States — New York’s startup fashion scene is trending among venture capitalists. Record amounts of funding are being raised, leading to two freshly …
L’Oreal Joins $38.6 Million Funding Round For Biotech Start-up Abolis
L’Oreal has joined Abolis Biotechnologies’s €35 million ($38.6 million) funding round alongside speciality chemicals group Evonik, as part of a deal to develop bio-based ingredients …
Julie Bornstein’s New AI Start-Up Raises $50-Million Seed Round
Daydream, a new AI-based shopping platform from retail and e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein, has raised $50 million in seed funding. Co-leading the round were Forerunner …
Why One AI Start-Up Is Cataloguing Millions of Fashion Items
If you want to sell a Helmut Lang jacket on a resale site, you have to photograph it, write out a description and price it, …
Startup School | Module 4 – Brand Tools
BoF sits down with five New York-based BIPOC designers taking part in the second iteration of Raisefashion’s Brand Fellowship programme, to hear about their entrepreneurial …
Startup School | Module 2 – Strategy Tools
BoF sits down with five New York-based BIPOC designers taking part in the second iteration of Raisefashion’s Brand Fellowship programme, to hear about their entrepreneurial …
D’you Shakes Up India’s Beauty Start-Up Scene
NAPA, CALIFORNIA – While many Indian beauty start-ups tend to emphasise natural ingredients, skincare brand D’you is taking the opposite approach. “The narrative that is …
Retail Startup Neighborhood Goods Shutters All Four Stores
Neighborhood Goods, a chain of multi-brand stores that stock indie brands such as Andie Swim and D.S. & Durga, is shuttering, chief executive Matt Alexander …
Can A Spanish Men’s Jewellery Start-Up Take Its Hype Machine Global?
BARCELONA — Biel Juste and Joan Margrit — the influencers-turned-entrepreneurs behind men’s jewellery start-up Twojeys — tend to ignore the conventional wisdom not to mix …
Could This Tech Start-Up Be the Next Big Thing in Resale?
Ever heard of girl math? The concept is simple. Say you’re contemplating a Loewe bucket bag. The price tag may be a hefty $2,550, but …
Inditex to Buy Recycled Polyester From US Start-Up
Zara owner Inditex, the world’s biggest clothing retailer, has agreed to buy recycled polyester from US start-up Ambercycle, according to a document seen by Reuters. …
Walmart Partners With Fashion Tech Start-Up to Pilot Carbon-Captured Textiles
Retail giant Walmart is partnering with fashion tech start-up Rubi Laboratories to experiment with turning carbon emissions into textiles, the company said Thursday. The companies …
Which Start-Up Will Win the Race to Profitability?
For many direct-to-consumer brands, e-commerce marketplaces and resale platforms, the path to profitability is less of a marathon and more of an Indiana Jones-style sprint …
Start-Up E-Commerce Platform Temu Expands to Europe
Ultra-low-cost e-commerce platform Temu, owned by PDD Holdings, has started selling to European markets, including France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. …
Fashion Startup Tips and Tricks
(Copyright © Freepik). Opening a new business in any industry can be intimidating, especially in the fashion industry, because there are so many big names …
‘Lungs of the startup world’: bank fall upends most Silicon Valley industries | Technology
Startup founders, venture capitalists and aspirational entrepreneurs descended on Austin on Friday for the annual South by Southwest conference as they do every year. But …
L’Oréal Invests in Metaverse Start-Up
In its first venture-capital investment in the metaverse or web3 worlds, the beauty giant is backing a company that lets brands build their own virtual …
The Business of Fashion Podcast Episode 48: How Fashion Brands Can Think Like a Startup
Patrick Finnegan is not your typical 21-year-old. Speaking in front of some of the fashion industry’s most influential figures at VOICES, BoF’s annual gathering for …
The Stockholm Fragrance Start-Up Smart Money Is Betting On
STOCKHOLM — On a chilly night back in 2019, Haisam Mohammed went to Sodra Teatern, a clubbing hotspot housed in Sweden’s oldest theatre. Amid flashing …