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Good news for fashion and the environment with the innovative sustainable fashion app Nuw expanding its services across the UK and Ireland... Previously only available in London, Dublin and Cambridge, the sustainable fashion app, Nuw has just announced the expansion of its services across the UK and Ireland to empower people to reduce their environmental impact of fashion, and give love to t...
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Technology and ecommerce in particular has already had a profound impact on the fashion industry. Ken Price, Co-Founder of Manchester-based eCommerce shirt company Blake Mill explains how... Few industries have changed more radically, for better or for worse, in recent years than fashion. From the meteoric rise of fast fashion to the decline of the high street, and everything in between...
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Premium fashion resale service Cudoni secures £1.4m investment to support brand growth internationally, at a time when the secondary fashion market is booming fuelled by consumer concerns for sustainability. Premium fashion resale service, Cudoni, has confirmed the backing of key investors to secure a total of £1.4 million worth of investment for the emerging brand. The brand has form...
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JoeyWears: the fashtech company taking men’s underwear by the balls using innovative designs and the latest in textile technology.  Most men wear underwear (we hope) for about 75% of their lifetime. Your pants are the first thing you put on in the morning, and the last thing you take off at night. Underwear impacts how you feel, how you move and how your other clothes fit. While not ev...
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With London Fashion Week almost upon us, we thought it’d be quite timely for a fashion focused business to be our latest Startup of the Week. However, the business in question is not just leading the way in terms of its stylish designs and the quality of the garments it creates; it is doing much more than that. Ninety Percent is a “premium womenswear label where aesthetics meets ...
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FavourUp, an influencer-generated content aggregator that helps brands & their agencies extend the impact of social media influencers, reaches it's 90k Crowdcube crowdfunding target in two weeks.  Many fashion brands are investing up to £50k in one-off influencer posts on social media, but these posts quickly disappear from view, being pushed down users feeds by new posts. This mak...
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Comb allows users to see a fashion item they like, anywhere on the internet, and find it and similar products within seconds, with just one click. It’s simple: you see pictures of us at a Startacus event and think, ‘I must emulate those Olympians!’; you click the Comb button and drag a box over our tweed jacket, dungarees, flip flops, or whatever we’ve inspired you wit...
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We are liking the look of Kniterate, a compact digital knitting machine (think 3D printing for knitting) that can create custom designed knitted garments like scarves, beanies, shoe uppers, sweaters, and dresses, and aims to bring fashion fabrication back to the masses!  Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, it looks like the general public agree too, and with 20 or so days left (at th...
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Our pals at IncuBus ventures have teamed up with London’s world-famous Camden Market to create a space where the most innovative and exciting retail startups can demonstrate and showcase their work.    The collaboration has seen the Launch of a 2,000 square foot dual-floor prime retail space in the markets North Yard which benefits from the passing weekly footfall of over 500,000....
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Innovation specialists L Marks, well known for their corporate & startup collaboration programmes with the likes of Belron, BMW, Topshop and John Lewis, have recently partnered with N Brown, the North West based retail giant to deliver the JDWORKS Startup Programme. With an ambition to find innovative startups working within the retail, credit, and fashion spaces, and a closing date that is f...
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