Fashion industry insiders love to count Jeff Bezos and out when it comes to unlocking the secret world of fashion. Vox Media’s RACKED newsletter and fashion shopping site published an in-depth article detailing Amazon.com’s trials and tribulations in the fashion world. Let’s face it, there are terrible inefficiencies in the way clothing is made and retailed. Every piece has to be manufactured in a range of sizes and the fashion industry works on a seasonal schedule presenting at minimum two-to-four new collections each year. The Amazon custom-made clothing patent is not just a way to build out its fashion retail presence, but may be the fashion industry’s answer to eliminating the inefficiencies built into the system.

Source: Forbes May 03, 2017 12:33 UTC