The makeup industry has long been driven by marketing, branding, and product and packaging innovation. With a handful of exceptions, business model innovation hasn't historically been part of this beauty equation... until now. With consumer technology start-ups disrupting entire industries in recent years -- think what Gilt Groupe, Moda Operandi,...

Since the late 1990s, eBay has dominated the used clothing market. In fact, unbeknownst to most, fashion -- used apparel, accessories, and shoes -- continues to represent eBay's largest category, with close to 2 million listings at any given time. Compare this diversity of product with "normal" fashion...

Retail 2.0. It's the latest buzzword that every e-commerce start-up claims to be. As I've mentioned in previous posts, young, innovative companies have introduced a plethora of new online retail business models over the last few years. What I recently noticed, however, is that more and more of...

Just this past week, a friend asked me when I think the fashion start-up bubble will burst. What was interesting to me is that she didn't ask whether I thought there was a bubble in the first place -- she just assumed.

It's easy to see why someone might jump...

If you were a teenager growing up in suburban America in the '90s, chances are your social life revolved around the mall. It's no secret that the relevancy of this American tradition has plummeted with the rise of e-commerce, but the question still remains: What will happen to...

It's been nearly a year since I wrote my first HuffPo article about the plethora of online fashion startups that were cropping up in early 2011. Ten months later, the momentum doesn't seem to have slowed one bit. And it's no surprise why. Just last month,

During a recent innovation class at Harvard Business School, a guest made the following statement: "Value in our society is shifting from ownership to access." This comment was made in reference to video streaming, but the discussion soon shifted to how we as a society consume today. Will the next...

In September of last year, the New York Post published a story, titled "Harvard Goes High Fashion," that created more visible buzz than the average Harvard Business Review article. "Harvard Goes High Fashion and High Tech" might have been a more appropriate name. The piece highlighted the slew...