Third Wave Fashion // OCTOBER 2014 | Page 5

editor’s letter Welcome to the final monthly issue of our Fashion Tech Reports – and a sneak peek into what’s coming next. We’ve been publishing these exclusive, private monthly reports for the past sixteen months now, and by all accounts, readers have loved them. However, this issue marks a morphing into what’s next: bigger, more beautiful, even more robust insider reporting about fashion + tech, now made available to everyone. To our loyal long term readers: deep gratitude for your support for this past year and half, and we hope that you love what’s next as much as we do. To our new readers: we’re thrilled to be welcoming you and can’t wait to inform and delight you, too. // 3 e next edition you’ll see will be a beautiful printed quarterly magazine, packed with even more insider information, important news, and an entirely new way of merging content with commerce, advertising with editorial, and fashion with tech. You’ll continue to enjoy behind-the-scenes coverage of fashion tech startups, brand partnerships & strategies, emerging technologies, wearables, future commerce, and cutting edge retail–as well as added coverage of beauty tech, connected homes, and fashion tech scenes around the globe. Make sure to subscribe to our mailing list to get all of the news about what’s next. Enjoy the issue! And see you soon. xo, Liza Kindred LIZA KINDRED, Founder & Editor in Chief Third Wave Fashion Your fashion tech think tank since 2011.