Notable alumni include Spanish ride-sharing company Cabify, Brazilian freight transport company CargoX, U.K. shipping services marketplace MercadoTransporte, and Argentinian online apparel solution Glamit.
We look forward to the next step of making this protective apparel solution available where it is needed for both emergency response and preparedness". Leslie Mancuso, president and CEO of Jhpiego, said the new garment will help ensure that frontline health workers can respond safely and with confidence to any new infectious disease outbreak.
In this case that turned out to be "intimate-apparel solutions," which means anything you wear under something else that's "functional and fashion-forward," Sturgeon says.
Newlight is currently in discussions with a number of other manufacturers to develop a range of other applications based on the technology, from automotive and beverage solutions through to apparel and packaging.
Social entrepreneurs like María Almazán of Spain, pictured above, are piloting solutions for sustainable apparel that show industry-wide potential.
Avery Dennison, for example, is a major player in apparel labeling, branding and packaging solutions, and counts leading retailers, apparel and footwear brands as customers.
We are shredding, cutting and reforming clothing to test the limits of reuse in the hope that we will provide the apparel industry with some feasible solutions that expand current practices.
It's really neat to imagine Secret Service agents hunched over a monitor, watching VBS and smoking joints when they stumbled upon our little gem of a solution to their apparel dilemma.
Other fans think he's the solution, including Will Smith, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney (who calls it "the Bible for atheists") and so many rappers, from Jay-Z on down, that the New Yorker dubbed him "hip-hop's Machiavelli".
American Apparel's finest was the perfect solution for any dress-up party - a black leotard was an instant cat costume and a nude-colored one was present at "Scantily Clad" (don't ask).
"The attribute dataset that this project will create will open new opportunities to recognize fine details in apparel, and will drive new problems and solutions in recognition of fashion and apparel," Bala said.
