Danielle Vermeer
@daniellevermeer
Co-Founder & CEO of Teleport. Writer of Goodwill Hunting, a newsletter hunting the best pre-loved fashion finds, insights, and jobs. 11+ years of buying no new clothes.
Danielle Vermeer
We may balk at having “personal market caps,” but many of us already do – it is simply denominated in the currency of followers. As social media platforms have increased in importance, the blue-chip entities of this exchange – influencers – have found ways to transmute social capital into financial capital.
Mario Gabriele • Social Tokens: The Economy of You | The Generalist
In the US alone, the secondhand fashion market could grow 20% between 2020 and 2025 to reach $67 billion in size, according to estimates by Business of Fashion Insights.
Business of Fashion • Can Fashion Resale Ever Be a Profitable Business?
The app connects clothing brands, and consumers, with individual seamsters who can mend, alter or tailor new or pre-loved clothing. The app has many aims, according to its 24-year-old founder Josephine Philips: It wants to extend the lifetime of clothing, and generate work for the many small seamster businesses on high streets across the country.
Samantha Conti • Tailoring, Repairs App Sojo Raises $2.4 Million in Pre-seed Funding
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Gen Z and
Take out a piece of paper or open a doc. Write out the answer to “Who is the person I aspire to be?” (in 2 years).
Be brutally honest about it - just get as clear as you can. Income, health, appearance, marital status, etc.
No one has to see this but you. Make it count. 2/
Dr. Julie Gurnertwitter.comLavoine and her collaborators have developed a process that allows them to use nanocellulose to produce clothing items with iridescent features resembling the rainbow-hued shimmer seen on fish scales, bird feathers and insect bodies.