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Social Impact To The Fore As Legatum Center Holds Its First UK Conference At Level 39

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The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston was set up as a fellowship program to help MIT students build and scale their ventures through “principled, entrepreneurial leadership”. The center also provides seed grants and travel expenses for “students looking to explore and experience global innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE) opportunities”, as well as …

Ethical Fashion Start-up Tarlee Get Physical At The Shard Retail Arcade!

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What’s the difference between London Bridge rail station, and London Bridge Underground? About 3 miles, by our reckoning! If this is part of your commute, or you are planning on taking this journey, take our advice and take a thermos of coffee and hiking boots as following the human crocodile that runs through through this …

So, You Want To Be The Next Marc Jacobs Superstar Vlogger? #castmemarc Is Back!

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Vloggers are the incarnation of the modern entrepreneur – discuss. Luckily, you don’t have to because this week the Stylist, London’s favourite publication for fashion, style and life lovers has spent a week shadowing superstar Vlogger Tanya Burr, to see what living life in a YouTube goldfish bowl is really like. So before we tell …

London-Based 4th Generation Italian Fashion House Wants You To Design Your Own Shirts Using Gesture Control and AR

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Just when you thought men’s grooming was destined to be something we could only read about in Victorian novels, a bygone service from a bygone era, London-based shirt makers Neronote have decided to reinvent it. As you can see from the video below, Neronote are predicting that gesture control and AI will allow the world …

Fashion Box Delivery Start-up That Walked Away From Dragons Den Deal Appoints Mention Me To Run Its Referral Program

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A brush with one of the BBC’s “Dragon” investors is often more than a start-up founder can take – most leave the Den, populated by wealthy entrepreneurs turned television personalities – such as Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meadon – with a flea in their ears and their business plans in tatters. In the case of …

Sole Trader – An Accountant Turned Entrepreneur Is Using 3D Scanners To Help Women Create Their Perfect Shoe

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If it hadn’t been for a perfectly fitting slipper, where would Cinderella be today? Such is the historical importance of footwear in our lives – and the arguments rage as fiercely today as they ever did – should women be forced to wear heels to work – when are flats the right option, and are …

Mannequins No Longer Realistic Enough For Long Tall Sally – Now They Are Using 3D Printed Scans Of Real Women’s Bodies

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Harriet Winters is from London; she is a statuesque 6’0 tall and wears a size 10, and from today she is due to be immortalised by LongTallSally, the fashion chain which exclusively caters for tall women. A lifesize 3D printed model of Harriet will be installed at the London Design Studio where it will be …

Ethical Fashion Platform TARLEE Is Showcasing & Selling The Best Up and Coming “Slow Fashion” Brands In Europe

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A Black Open Back Satin Cami by Lily & Carter, and Bibi Shorts by Uzma Bozai; examples of the kind of “slow fashion” items to be found on Haggerston based Tarlee’s ethical online fashion portal 2 entrepreneurs  whose career paths went in opposite directions after they left university have re-joined forces and launched an online …

Fashion Tech & Gadget Site Kwaleo Joins The Personalisation Web Brigade And Makes A Pretty Good Fist (Bump) Of It

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Millennials, similarly to how the character of Blain, in the Arnie classic Predator, didn’t have time to bleed, ain’t got time to shop! Shop that is, in the classical sense. Looking at things for more than a couple of seconds before making a snap judgement, trying things on, “browsing”, measuring space at home to see …

What’s Mine Isn’t Yours; Fash-Tech Startup Pieces Of Mine Offers Bespoke, Personalised Jewellery From Top Independent Designers

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A new London -based Fash-Tech startup is aiming to put the romance back into the jewellery market. In a world where everything is mass produced consumers today crave personalisation; real beauty is not about the branding; it’s all about the story. Ex Rothschild’s investment banker turned entrepreneur Nadine Oei launched Pieces of Mine to address …

Create Your Own Personalised, Digital Shop Window With Fashion Start-up Custom

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Custom’s founders – could 2016 be the year of the Fash-Tech start-up? After spending 7 years at Google, where he helped launch marketing operations in Spain and Portugal and was “instrumental” in helping to set up the YouTube symphony orchestra, Custom founder Maximilian Madile’s world changed forever – all because of a coat. …

London’s Top Fashion Bloggers! As Described by Fashion Correspondent Abi Buller

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NEW YORK-FEB 10: Blogger Micah Jesse (L) and Nicole Volynets attend the Cantamessa Men Launch Party at Tao Downtown Lounge on February 10, 2014 in New York City. Fashion can be a tricky enough thing to get your head around, even without an online presence. But with the ever growing array of fashion-centric blogs available …

EVOLUTION OF E-COMMERCE: FASHTECH TALKS TO ASOS!

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With speakers from ASOS and Cortexica, FashTech’s latest event, held at ASOS HQ, attracted an audience eager to learn about the latest innovation in retail experience. Branding themselves as ‘’the leading fashion image recognition company’’, Cortexica have teamed up with online high street giant ASOS to introduce the most up to date e-commerce experience. …