ReFashioner Inc
Online luxury shopping community for pre-owned pieces with focus on eco & emotion of fashion. "Reshaping NYC's fashion industry" said psfk.
- Stage Concept Only
- Industry Lifestyle
- Location United States
- Currency USD
- Website refashioner.com
Company Summary
ReFashioner is an online curated consignment marketplace, community & style story generator. Not just a commerce site, but a disruptive movement with mission & manifesto, making it cool, easy, fun and necessary to haute-cycle (one-ups upcycling) >$880B worth of couture trapped in millions of closets. Our core market is the high end fashion consumer. Also the professional and semi-pro dealer in vintage and pre-owned past season designer pieces.
Team
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Kate SekulesFounder/CEO
Kate is a recovering journalist, pivoting to tech world from old and newish media. She was editor in chief of Culture+Travel, & Conde Nast Digital's Gourmet Live & Concierge.com, the Travel Editor of Food&Wine, & had bylines in everything from NYTimes & New Yorker to Style.com & Vogue. A native Londoner, where she had a vintage fashion business, Kate also recently published a memoir about being a professional boxer.
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Ines PeschieraCTO
Ines founded design and development studio, Bell & Whistle, in 2010, and, before joining ReFashioner, did projects for clients from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Columbia U to Source 4 Style & Pop Chart Lab. A Peruvian-American, Ines went to Lima to build a team of talented hackers specializing in Ruby.
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Ailsa CarpenterCFO
A refugee from the world of high finance, Ailsa spent 15 years as Head of International Sales at Morgan Stanley in London and New York. Her interest in emerging markets drew her to boutique firm, Auerbach Grayson to manage the global portfolio, then to ReFashioner to manage a different kind of emerging market.
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