More and more experienced fashion executives are leaving the plush confines of their showrooms and offices for new territory at tech startups, reports WWD.
The trade title – which recently made a tech-friendly jump themselves, eschewing their daily paper edition to publish primarily online – cited as examples Bonobos’ recent acquisition of Coach’s Fran Della Badia, Nasty Gal’s Sheree Waterson, who joined the company from Lululemon, and Julie Bornstein who fled Sephora for Stitch Fix.