Build visible proof of what you can do
Tech For Fashion helps fashion, luxury and retail talent demonstrate real skills through challenges and helps brands discover people through visible work, not resumes alone.
Why this matters now
CVs often look similar. Challenges help talents demonstrate practical skills and create visible proof of what they can do.
A wrong recruitment decision costs time, money and momentum. Evaluated challenges help brands see how talent thinks before interviews.
Recruitment has not fundamentally changed for decades. Tech For Fashion introduces a challenge-based approach to discovering talent.
Challenge Lab
View all challenges →Design a 12-month technology roadmap for Maison Vérel, a contemporary womenswear brand scaling from 3 to 12 boutiques. Map their current stack, identify gaps, and recommend the right tools.
Turn raw observations from a luxury boutique visit into a professional report that retail management can act on.
Opens 13 October 2026
Audit Studio Noire's product data across 200 SKUs, identify gaps, and build a PIM migration plan and AI readiness framework.
Design a clienteling strategy and CRM segmentation playbook for Brûlé London, a luxury multi-brand retailer with a disengaged VIP base.
Analyse return data patterns and design a data-driven returns reduction strategy for a contemporary fashion brand, combining UX, logistics, and analytics.
Design an omnichannel inventory visibility framework for a brand operating 5 stores and an ecommerce site, using OMS and WMS best practices.
A premium fashion brand struggles with overproduction and stockouts. Students must design an AI-assisted demand prediction approach that connects fragmented data sources and transforms them into smarter buying and merchandising decisions.
TALENT BENEFITS
Build a concrete project you can showcase on your CV, LinkedIn profile or portfolio.
Demonstrate practical business and technology skills through evaluated work, not resumes alone.
Gain visibility with brands, sponsors, schools and industry partners interested in fashion technology.
Complete challenges and earn Proof of Work Certificates, finalist badges and recognition that can be added to LinkedIn, CVs and portfolios.
How It Works
A structured, transparent process — for talents and brands.
Browse open and upcoming fashion-tech challenges across AI, data, CRM, ecommerce, clienteling and retail operations.
Sign up early and receive the full challenge brief, context, deliverables and timeline when it is released.
Work solo or in a team. No coding required — analytical, strategic and business-oriented entries are welcome.
Earn a Proof of Work Certificate, get showcased when selected, and add your work to your CV, LinkedIn profile or portfolio.
We help you frame a real business or technology problem into a structured, talent-ready brief.
Talents register, receive the brief, ask clarifying questions and submit structured solutions.
You receive a curated shortlist of the best entries — evaluated by industry practitioners.
Feature finalists publicly, meet emerging talent and build early visibility with future fashion-tech profiles.
Partnerships
Tech For Fashion is selecting its first school relays and brand partners for the Paris Pilot Challenge.
The first 3 school partners to share the challenge can receive founding partner visibility and offer students a practical, career-oriented challenge experience.
Early brand partners can support the first Paris Pilot Challenge and gain visibility with emerging talent interested in fashion technology.
Whether you are a talent, brand or school, Tech For Fashion helps connect practical skills with real opportunities.
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