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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 …

Sashay It With Sunflowers? Start-up Wild Bangarang Is Printing Van Gogh’s Masterpieces  On A Range Of Leggings

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Based in Seaford, near Eastbourne, Wildbangarang, a start-up founded by entrepreneurs Adam Jay and David Pearson in 2014 is teaming up with the National Gallery to launch a range of leggings emblazoned with works of art from the likes of Vincent Van Gogh and Ambrosius Bosscheart the Elder. The National Gallery, which looks after more …

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 …

Fashion Places, Fashion Spaces:

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Fashion Correspondent Abi Buller writes: With the current melting-pot of creative talent saturating the fashion industry, it is no mean feat to produce a well-received and memorable brand presentation during the madness that is fashion month. Coinciding with an ever-changing influx of fashion trends, seasons, campaigns and shows, fashion communication and promotion has seen an …

London Or Barcelona? Mobile or Fashion?

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The Bright Lights of Barcelona – Freddie Mercury would be proud Next week Londoners will take on the Catalans in an unofficial battle for Europe’s coolest city; Mark Zuckerberg will be headlining MWC 2016 in Barcelona, one of the world’s largest mobile and tech conferences, whilst London Fashion Week kicks off in London today. …

Been there, Founded That – Got The Entrepreneur Hoodie?

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Yes, it’s a thing; nothing says “fund my start-up business” quite like a monickered hoodie. If that’s not a sentence you thought you would be hearing in 2016, then buddy, you are soo 2015! href=”http://www.entrepreneurhoodie.com/” target=”_blank”>The Entrepreneur Hoodie is the brain child of New York based entrepreneur (duh!) Derek Newton and young immigrant designer and …

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. …

The Unexpected Trend for Multi-Stories and Pop-ups across London and London Fashion Week

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Fashion correspondent Abi Buller writes: Who could have predicted the sudden cool-factor of industrial spaces, carparks and rooftops? If you happened to be passing through the streets of Soho in mid-September, you may have noticed a particularly fashionable clan of VIPs, models and attaches hoarding their way into and around the NCP carpark on Brewer …

Get To Know The Founders Of Knomi As They Introduce Shopping Through Social Interaction…

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Haggerston Times Fashion Writer Abi Buller talks to one of the co-founders of Knomi, Hans-Christian Zappel, about their recently launched e-commerce and social networking application. Knomi is a social fashion discovery app which allows users to curate profiles based on their own style choices, as well as sharing and interacting with others about the latest …

Shopping Senses: Where Do We Feel More At Home; Online Or In-Store?

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Fashion Correspondent Abi Buller writes: Consider the initial smell of a brand new leather jacket, or the sound of a chunky zip or buckle being fastened for the first time. Whilst each of these sensations can be replaced after card details are entered, confirmation email received, 3-5 days in the post, a signature, and an …

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 …

Dance, Fashion, Film…All in one MOVEment!

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fashion correspondent Abi Buller writes: What happens when you merge the mediums of dance, fashion, and film, and put them together in a Sadler’s Wells production? ‘MOVEment’ is a dance, fashion and film hybrid performance project presented by AnOther Magazine and created in collaboration with Sadler’s Wells to display the unification of multiple creative forces. …

Technology reviewed, refined, and restored at ‘This Happened’ MeetUp:

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fashion correspondent Abi Buller writes: The power and influence of technology within our everyday lives is certainly not news to most of us. But has anyone really considered how we can begin to rehumanize our digital lives? The speakers at Saturday’s “This Happened London”, a quarterly event held at the V&A, considered this notion. While …

The rise of MallTech means you had better take your smartphone shopping with you!

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“Brands can’t lord it over customers now. Before, it was about waving the flag of the brand. Now consumers are turning themselves into brands through social media. Gap doesn’t make you cool; you make Gap cool by choosing to wear it.” Antonio Bertone, former marketing chief at Puma, speaking to Wired magazine, sums it up …

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. …