I'm Proud of this and teh team! I usually attend hacks to learn about the API's but this was fashion, and having spent the last 7 years observing studying and testing Fashion Tech out there I was looking forward to this... and yes it was at Gilt Groupe headquaters... so who could resist!
I'll share what I posted on m
y Timline!
Our winning team from NYC Fashion Hack Day at Gilt NYC offices! We started at 11am and had till 7pm to come up with a concept, hack/design software and present a pitch... not bad for a group that met at the event! We walked away with top prize from Apigee for StyleLust a new platform to help stylist scout and pull to unique items from designers, vintage purveyors & brands! Stlelust also leverages teh networks of STlist with a unique revenue sharing mode thus it does bit more than 'h
elp the fashion industry work: sourcing materials for photo shoots" with geo-tagging ad social commerce!
stylelust.fashionhack at gmail [dot] com for more info
It's the 4th hack I've attended and the second time I've been in a submitting team and the second time that team won! L- right Jey, Trish, Ms Kate, Bonnie, Kwasi and Kevin! From m end It helped that I had discussed this problem with some Brookln Dtlist... the gu
ys are in Fashion Branding ad Marketing and Trish was a former stylist! Kate and kevin were the best tech teamy ou could ask for and Ms Kate LOVES fashion, making sure we had a consumer facing aspect!
What worked was that everyone understood the task at hand.. trust me this is a platform that will disrupt the sector... This was truly enjoyable... and oh the power of sharing!
via http://tech.gilt.com/tagged/fashionhack
Two other winners... The Continuum fashion team presented a concept for digial printing similar to the canvazz I''ve been working on... But I knew I recognised the name and sure enough they are the team behind DDress which I scooped a while back
next to them a team using the Gilt Api to easily find specific extreme sizes... large or petite in a Gilt offering...
and next to them the team that integrates FB Reviews and Gilt APi... to get a crowd input!
Hopefull they will publish a list of winners soon with links so i can really enjoy
