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Dresslife Works to Deliver a Magical Ecommerce Experience for Fashion

As consumers look to ecommerce for more and more of their purchasing, the fashion industry has a growing issue with costly returns—largely because items don’t fit as expected. Dresslife works with fashion brands and retailers, enabling them to offer a better customer experience and has launched a mobile app. We spoke with Dresslife’s marketing manager, Yvonne Georgi, to learn more.

Monday, May 13, 2019

Dresslife was founded by Dr. Julian Hensolt and Djamal Oucherif to offer a solution for brands and retailers to make it easier for consumers to purchase online. According to Yvonne Georgi, Dresslife’s Marketing Manager, “Returns are a major challenge in fashion ecommerce. Brands and retailers lose $35 billion a year on returns, and we want to help them change that.”

Dr. Julian Hensolt, Co-Founder and CEO (left) and Djamal Oucherif, Co-Founder and CTO.

Dr. Hensolt’s background is in the automotive industry. As he was writing his Ph.D. dissertation, he noticed that the fashion supply chain displays considerable disadvantages compared to almost any other segment. He found that returns are six to 16 times higher in fashion ecommerce; 75% of the clothing people own is worn less than four times in life and fashion is still produced in fixed batch sizes, so at the end of the season there are massive amounts of overstock. Thus, he began looking for a way to transfer findings of other supply chains to the fashion segment and leverage data across the entire process to solve some of the problems within the fashion supply chain. This led to the founding of Dresslife. Today, the company has 11 employees and has developed a B2B solution for fashion brands and retailers as well as an app that directly helps consumers in finding and choosing styles and sizes that work for them.


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