Fashion Tech Digest #8

French investment in digital innovation is on a roll. Everyone’s involved, from the big luxury groups to VC firms and the French government.

Lithuania’s first unicorn - C2C fashion marketplace Vinted, raised their Series F in May. With funds ostensibly tagged to expand capacity at the company’s Berlin office.

”A [10] year long overnight success story, Browzwear invented the use of 3D design for apparel and is increasingly being adopted as the design system of record by the largest brands and manufacturers in the industry.”

The H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award is accepting applications for climate-related fashion innovations beginning Aug. 25.

An interesting insight into how Dropbox thinks about required skills across their engineering workforce. Somewhat fashion tech unrelated, but potentially helpful for the technicians out there.