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UK ranks fourth globally in Shopify Entrepreneurship Index

UK entrepreneurs within Shopify's ecosystem generated 28.8 billion pounds in business activity and contributed 14.3bn pounds to GDP in 2022. The index, conducted in partnership with Deloitte, offers real-time insights into entrepreneurship and is based on data from millions of entrepreneurs and IMF, OECD, and World Bank data. UK businesses grew...

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New professions: a revolution for sustainability and trade

There are three sectors that will see an explosion of new professions in the next ten years: technology, marketing and advertising, in addition to green jobs (jobs related to sustainability). This is one of the trends that emerged from the Young Entrepreneurs of Confcommercio survey in Rome. Data shows that for 70 percent of the participants,...

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AMI x IFM Entrepreneurship Prize announces winners

The Ami x IFM Entrepreneurship Prize announced Guillaume Hiriat Carriat, founder of ATXI, a leather goods brand developed at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) and Leopolda Contaux-Bellina, creator of the leather goods label Sed Nove Studio, which is experimenting with an innovative method of assembling leather (IFM incubator), as the...

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+50 top leaders from the fashion/ business/ tech industries gather at the 6th Worldwide Talks

The 6th edition of the Worldwide Talks, in partnership with Spring Studios, will take place on February 3rd, offering more than eight hours of the uninterrupted program. Starting at 10 AM EST and broadcasted live from Spring Studios (kicking off the new partnership between Fashinnovation & Spring Studios), the event will present +50 top speakers...

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Condé Nast College introduces new online courses

Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design has introduced two new courses starting on 18 October, each course will last six weeks. One of the courses is entitled Business and Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Media and Creative Industries. This course was designed for students who wish to open their own business in one of the following industries:...

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FASHINNOVATION Worldwide Talks 2021 - Fashion is NOW

The world of fashion is and always has been at the forefront of change – both through cultural adaptation and also economically. In 2020, the human trajectory and the fashion industry were drastically changed. However, what is important is that we now look ahead and re-create. The feeling of “living in the now” became a crucial way of thinking....

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Meet the startups selected for Fashion for Good’s 4th accelerator program

Starting today, 12 new startups will join Fashion for Good’s Plug and Play Accelerator Programme, which provides them with a push to scale-up their businesses, including a twelve-week curriculum and mentorship from Adidas, C&A, Galeries Lafayette, Kering, PVH, Target and Zalando. The fourth batch of startups to be backed by Fashion for Good...

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Sisters in fashion: four pairs of siblings on how they work together

The Olsen twins, the Rodarte sisters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner... Several successful fashion companies are run by siblings. But how is it, really, to mix family and business on a daily basis? FashionUnited Belgium spoke to four pairs of sisters who set up fashion companies together to find it out. Ester and Hadassa DeKoning, from luxury fashion...

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Joe’s Blackbook Salon Presents Perspectives on Entrepreneurship

The inaugural Joe’s BlackBook salon took place last Thursday with a glittering panel of speakers, a full house what one panelist called “the best looking group of people in one room in downtown Manhattan,” and even a drinking game around the many mentions of Instagram. Introduced by Sean Kwon as “the first of an ongoing series of conversations...