"I felt so strongly that the way people were shopping was not going to be the future. I was like, there’s no way that the future of buying jeans is going to be spending a day at the mall or even searching online."
The holiday season is a good time for networking. You never know how someone you meet at a holiday party can help you with your career.
I took two 16-week maternity leaves as CEO of Stitch Fix. I was out of the office the whole time, delegating the role of steering my public company to our President and COO.
In just eight years, online retailer Stitch Fix has created a flourishing business. More than 3.2 million shoppers use its service annually to buy merchandise from jeans to wool sweaters to bracelets.
Listen in as Tom Gardner, Andy Cross, and Tim Beyers chat with Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX) COO Mike Smith about the company's origins, its business model, and its philosophy on experimentation and growth.
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Online personal styling service Stitch Fix UK has today launched five in-house women’s and menswear labels for the first time.
At Stitch Fix, the online personal styling service, finding the right thing to wear is as much about fashion as it is about data. The company has hired over 100 data scientists to build a robust set of algorithms that determine everything from the size, silhouette, and style of each item that shows up on a client's doorstep.
Rebecca Minkoff is a New York Fashion Week mainstay. Each season, she’s at the forefront of what the modern female shopper really wants in her closet whether it’s a faux fur coat or a snakeskin bag — or just to be seen when it comes to an inclusive size range. And her latest endeavor is rooted in that spirit of inclusivity and fashion for all. This season, the designer announced her continued partnership with online personal styling service, Stitch Fix, revealing that they’ve teamed up to launch their first-ever, size-inclusive capsule collection timed to her New York Fashion Week show.
Money cannot buy you style - or so the case used to be. Then in the early 2000s came personal stylists, who would, for a fee, help high-powered and high-profile women dress well for work and red carpet events. Celebrities once absent from magazine fashion pages started topping best-dressed lists, and the talents behind those looks - Rachel Zoe, Elizabeth Saltzman, Kate Young - became famous in their own right. But now those services are being built into luxury shopping platforms in a bid to retain the ultra-high-net-worth shoppers who keep them afloat.