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Sydney peer-to-peer startup Designerex helps users make cash lending out their designer dresses
A growing number of niche platforms are tapping into the opportunities within the peer to peer model, with one being Designerex.
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Mildura startup Your Style Revolution wants to make the personal stylist more accessible
For any woman who has seen pictures of impeccably-dressed celebrities and thought picking out an outfit every morning would be much easier if they too had a personal stylist helping them shop for clothes and piece a look together, Mildura startup Your Style Revolution wants to bridge that gap and make obtaining styling advice more accessible. Founded… Read more »
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Melbourne fashion ecommerce tool To Me Love Me wants to help shoppers find the right fit
Integrated into an online retailer’s website, the To Me Love Me tool will help shoppers find the right fit on their first go.
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Myer creates ‘Catwalk to Cart’ live shopping platform for parade attendees at Melbourne Fashion Festival
RMyer has announced ‘Catwalk to Cart’, a new online platform offering a Tinder-like approach for guests attending the Myer runways to buy clothes.
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Sydney startup Revoir is bringing the high end fashion consignment store online
Sydney startup Revoir is more than just a listing service, instead taking the consignment model online to be a store itself.
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Love Merino allows customers to trace garments back to the sheep the wool came from
In 2015 Pip, along with her brother-in-law Ian Smith, decided to launch a new venture they both say was 120 years in the making. Together they launched Love Merino, an ecommerce / ethical fashion startup. It’s a company that represents the hard work of over six generations of Smiths that have lived and worked on the farm, laying the foundations to be able to produce a premium wool product through their approach to how they farmed the land and cared for the animals.
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R.M. Williams embraces tech to blend its trademark craftsmanship with the customer’s personal style
Founded in 1932 by Reginald Murray Williams, the brand R.M. Williams is one of our country’s most recognised lifestyle brands, sitting comfortably next to the likes of other iconic brand names like Akubra, Driza-Bone, and Hard Yakka on the world stage.
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Melbourne startup Hospital Glamour bringing style and practicality to the outdated hospital gown
Melbourne-based startup Hospital Glamour is an online fashion store for hospital gowns that provide hospital patients with style and practicality. The gowns revamp the old outdated hospital gown with fun and colourful prints, giving people more dignity upon their hospital stay.
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Sydney startup Kent and Lime creates fashion style kits for men
Sydney startup Kent and Lime provides men with their very own fashion kits catered to suit their style and the current fashion trends.
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Sydney fashiontech startup Lustr matches fashion-forward shoppers to emerging designers
Lustr wants to connect fashion-forward shoppers directly to emerging designers through a matchmaking algorithm, and help designers crowdsource feedback on their upcoming collections.
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UK ecommerce startup Pretty Little Thing expanding celebrity-inspired fast fashion offering in Australia
Manchester-based startup Pretty Little Thing was launched in 2012 by Umar Kamani, who grew up surrounded by fashion – his father is the founder of online fashion retailer Boohoo.com.
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Sydney fashiontech startup Fame and Partners raises $10.2 million Series A to fund move to US
Sydney fashiontech startup Fame and Partners has announced a $10.2 million raise from two US venture capital firms as it moves its headquarters to Los Angeles. New York City-based firm Firstmark Capital and LA-based Upfront Ventures have co-led the startup’s Series A round.
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Fashion and technology: A reluctant but inevitable match
This year has seen a boom in wearables. From the flop of the ill-timed (and ill-designed) Google Glass to the recent launch of the Apple watch, fashion and tech seems to be an inevitable match. We can no longer avoid being snobs around the fashion industry, leaving it to designers and manufacturers to figure it out.
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‘Anti-marketing is the new marketing’: Black Milk Clothing’s hipster philosophy pivotal to its growth
Black Milk Clothing is the name of a label synonymous with women’s tights and leggings that are as loud as you can get. What started as as an attempt to sew out of boredom and a lack of life direction from Lillis soon became an online success story that would ride the hipster movement.
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Ecommerce entrepreneurs killing it in Australia
The ecommerce market in Australia is extremely competitive at the moment. Here are 10 companies killing it online right now.
