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Fashion Network
26-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Daydream launches as the world's first AI fashion shopping agent
The world's first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion was launched on Wednesday. Dubbed 'Daydream', the platform introduces a fashion-forward "chat to shop" experience that delivers personalized, conversational shopping that responds like a trusted personal shopper. Founded by e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein, former CEO of The Yes and an alum of Nordstrom and Stitch Fix, Daydream combines advanced natural language understanding and multimodal AI, allowing users to search using everyday conversation, upload images, and receive tailored recommendations. Daydream launches with more than 200 retail and brand partners, representing over 8,000 global fashion brands and nearly 2 million products. Shoppers can discover pieces from high-end labels like Khaite, Markarian, and Casablanca; popular names like Nike, Alo Yoga, and Mejuri; and cult favourites such as Dôen, LoveShackFancy, and Cult Mia. The catalog spans both women's and men's fashion across a wide range of styles and price points. "Online shopping today is completely overwhelming and time consuming. Traditional search falls short in fashion because it doesn't understand the nuances of personal taste," said Bornstein. "By leveraging large language models and combining them with a deep understanding of the fashion space, we're building the online shopping platform of the future. Daydream lets people use real language to discover exactly what they're looking for across more than 2 million products from top fashion brands – and this is just the beginning. Our vision is for Daydream to become the smartest destination of fashion information, advice and products online. We've brought together an exceptional team using technology to help people shop in entirely new ways.' Daydream's founding team includes co-founder and chief brands officer Lisa Yamner Green, chief product officer Dan Cary, and chief strategy officer Richard Kim. Together, they bring experience from tech and fashion heavyweights like Google, Amazon, Pinterest, Meta, Farfetch, and Microsoft. The company raised $50 million in seed funding from top investors including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and True Ventures. Model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss is also among the company's backers.
Fashion Network
26-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Daydream launches as the world's first AI fashion shopping agent
The world's first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion was launched on Wednesday. Dubbed 'Daydream', the platform introduces a fashion-forward "chat to shop" experience that delivers personalized, conversational shopping that responds like a trusted personal shopper. Founded by e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein, former CEO of The Yes and an alum of Nordstrom and Stitch Fix, Daydream combines advanced natural language understanding and multimodal AI, allowing users to search using everyday conversation, upload images, and receive tailored recommendations. Daydream launches with more than 200 retail and brand partners, representing over 8,000 global fashion brands and nearly 2 million products. Shoppers can discover pieces from high-end labels like Khaite, Markarian, and Casablanca; popular names like Nike, Alo Yoga, and Mejuri; and cult favourites such as Dôen, LoveShackFancy, and Cult Mia. The catalog spans both women's and men's fashion across a wide range of styles and price points. "Online shopping today is completely overwhelming and time consuming. Traditional search falls short in fashion because it doesn't understand the nuances of personal taste," said Bornstein. "By leveraging large language models and combining them with a deep understanding of the fashion space, we're building the online shopping platform of the future. Daydream lets people use real language to discover exactly what they're looking for across more than 2 million products from top fashion brands – and this is just the beginning. Our vision is for Daydream to become the smartest destination of fashion information, advice and products online. We've brought together an exceptional team using technology to help people shop in entirely new ways.' Daydream's founding team includes co-founder and chief brands officer Lisa Yamner Green, chief product officer Dan Cary, and chief strategy officer Richard Kim. Together, they bring experience from tech and fashion heavyweights like Google, Amazon, Pinterest, Meta, Farfetch, and Microsoft. The company raised $50 million in seed funding from top investors including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and True Ventures. Model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss is also among the company's backers.
Fashion Network
26-06-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Daydream launches as the world's first AI fashion shopping agent
The world's first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion was launched on Wednesday. Dubbed 'Daydream', the platform introduces a fashion-forward "chat to shop" experience that delivers personalized, conversational shopping that responds like a trusted personal shopper. Founded by e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein, former CEO of The Yes and an alum of Nordstrom and Stitch Fix, Daydream combines advanced natural language understanding and multimodal AI, allowing users to search using everyday conversation, upload images, and receive tailored recommendations. Daydream launches with more than 200 retail and brand partners, representing over 8,000 global fashion brands and nearly 2 million products. Shoppers can discover pieces from high-end labels like Khaite, Markarian, and Casablanca; popular names like Nike, Alo Yoga, and Mejuri; and cult favourites such as Dôen, LoveShackFancy, and Cult Mia. The catalog spans both women's and men's fashion across a wide range of styles and price points. "Online shopping today is completely overwhelming and time consuming. Traditional search falls short in fashion because it doesn't understand the nuances of personal taste," said Bornstein. "By leveraging large language models and combining them with a deep understanding of the fashion space, we're building the online shopping platform of the future. Daydream lets people use real language to discover exactly what they're looking for across more than 2 million products from top fashion brands – and this is just the beginning. Our vision is for Daydream to become the smartest destination of fashion information, advice and products online. We've brought together an exceptional team using technology to help people shop in entirely new ways.' Daydream's founding team includes co-founder and chief brands officer Lisa Yamner Green, chief product officer Dan Cary, and chief strategy officer Richard Kim. Together, they bring experience from tech and fashion heavyweights like Google, Amazon, Pinterest, Meta, Farfetch, and Microsoft. The company raised $50 million in seed funding from top investors including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and True Ventures. Model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss is also among the company's backers.
San Francisco Chronicle
12-06-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘I do not feel safe': City College of S.F. instructor shaken by union leader's verbal attack
An instructor at City College of San Francisco says she is concerned for her safety a week after a union leader ridiculed her Jewish name and called her a 'colonizer' during a 90-second, expletive-laden rant at a public board meeting as the school's trustees looked on. 'The trustees don't have my back,' Abigail Bornstein, a computer science instructor, told the Chronicle on Wednesday. 'I'm out here on my own.' In addition to calling Bornstein a 'colonizer,' an apparent reference to Israel, Maria Salazar-Colon, president of the campus chapter of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, mocked Bornstein's name, calling her 'Abigail Dumbstein.' Bornstein reported the May 29 incident to the college's human resources department and, on Wednesday, to campus police Chief Mario Vazquez, saying in the email she shared with the Chronicle: 'I do not feel safe on campus.' The union is powerful, she added: 'This is David vs. Goliath.' By not halting the verbal attack, the board appeared to violate its own policy recommending that the trustees bar 'profanity, obscenity, and other offensive language' at meetings, Bornstein said in her police report. City College is under a warning sanction for three accreditation violations by its trustees — including that they fail to follow their own policies. Although the college is fully accredited, it has been unable to receive a seven-year extension of its accreditation since January 2024, when the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges slapped it with the warning, its mildest sanction. College officials told the accreditors in February that they are addressing the trustees' violations, including by trying to hire a permanent chancellor to replace the interim chancellor who has held the position for the past year. The accreditors were meeting Thursday and Friday to determine whether to lift the sanction, extend it or add to it. The accreditors told the Chronicle they are also looking carefully at City College's efforts to hire a chancellor, a process that has stalled just three weeks before the interim leader is expected to vacate the position. Asked Wednesday why the college's Board of Trustees did not stop the verbal attack on the instructor, Anita Martinez, the board's president, told the Chronicle that she had referred the question to City College interim President Mitchell Bailey. Bailey then shared a statement from Martinez and Luis Zamora, the board's vice president, supporting civility and apologizing 'to those who experienced such incivility.' The incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. at the trustees' last board meeting, after Bornstein began speaking at hour 6:57:50 on the recording. Bornstein, who frequently addresses the trustees about the college's precarious budget, spent her two-minute time slot opposing something that the SEIU — which represents hundreds of staff members — dearly wants: for the college to reopen its contract negotiations and provide a raise to match the 14% pay increase won by the faculty union over the past three years. Basing salary decisions on the idea that 'if they get that, I get this — that is not how we should be budgeting,' Bornstein said, urging the board to instead adjust pay based on what the competition earns elsewhere. After another speaker a few minutes later, Salazar-Colon, the union president, told the trustees that she was going to speak about 'that big mouth that's always in here.' 'I really wish that that colonizer, Abigail Dumbstein, would shut her damn mouth and not speak on SEIU items,' Salazar-Colon said, saying the instructor was 'dumber than a bag of rocks.' Salazar-Colon said Bornstein shouldn't meddle in fiscal issues, which she called 'our damn business.' She then said Bornstein should 'shut the f— up. … I'm sick of her s—. Shut the f— up.' One of the trustees, Aliya Chisti, interjected: 'President Martinez, we need to make sure that we're mindful of the comments that are being made.' But Salazar-Colon was allowed to go on. 'I'm gonna make whatever comment I want because I'm tired of it,' she said, criticizing the trustees for allowing Bornstein to frequently address the board, and urging them to 'put her in her place.' Bornstein later told the Chronicle that the 'attack on me was so vile. President Martinez should have hit her gavel within the first five seconds when Maria said 'that colonizer Abigail Dumbstein.' She did nothing.' Salazar-Colon told the Chronicle she was referring questions to a spokesperson, who sent a response on behalf of the union leader: 'While the wording could have been different, the intention was not to disparage anyone's religion or culture but express an ongoing frustration with Ms. Bornstein, based on her repeated undermining of our union's efforts to lift up (college staff) of all religions, cultures, and backgrounds.' Bornstein also reported to the police and to the trustees that she received a follow-up email from Salazar-Colon that she considered threatening for its aggressive tone and because it concluded: 'Good riddance.' That email, which Bornstein shared with the Chronicle, demanded that Bornstein 'stop with your deranged, racist, elitist, horrible, filthy lies that come out of your spiteful mouth! It seems like you might be feeling a bit envious!' The email said, in all capital letters, 'YOU LACK THE POWER TO STOP OR CONTROL SEIU, AND YOU NEVER WILL! ACCEPT THAT, COLONIZER!' Bornstein later emailed the board, saying that she had not slept well since the meeting and the 'antisemitic, vile attack on me.' Darlene Alioto, chair of the college's Department Chairpersons Council, criticized the board's tolerance of the attack in an email to the trustees that she shared with the Chronicle. The message was one of many calls and emails the board received condemning the attack. 'This behavior would not be allowed in my classroom; this behavior would not be allowed in my home. Why is it allowed at board meetings?' Alioto wrote, calling the board's acceptance of the rant 'disgusting' and Salazar-Colon's follow-up email to Bornstein 'antisemitic.' In their apology, Martinez and Zamora acknowledged that the trustees 'did not do enough to uphold the standards of respect that our community deserves.' Going forward, they wrote, the board 'will no longer tolerate such behavior' and was 'committed to reinforcing the expectation that all voices can be heard without fear of intimidation or harm.' The accrediting commission, which was meeting this week, has 30 days to issue its decision about the status of City College's sanction.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Olympics broadcast center and movie studio coming to Hollywood Park
Rams owner Stan Kroenke will build a movie studio next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood that will serve as the international broadcast center for the 2028 Olympic Games. Construction will start by summer on the studio and production facility that will house hundreds of broadcasters from around the world that have acquired rights to cover the Summer Games in Los Angeles, Kroenke's company said Tuesday. After the Games, the facility known as Hollywood Park Studios will be used to make movies, television shows and other productions and perhaps host live broadcasts. The development is part of Hollywood Park, a multibillion-dollar complex built on the site of a former horse racing track also known as Hollywood Park that includes the stadium, apartments, theaters, offices, shops and restaurants. A luxury hotel is under construction there, and more development including a grocery store and medical offices is being considered. Kroenke's organization hopes that attention from the Olympics will boost Hollywood Park Studios' appeal as a future entertainment production center. "We want it to be recognized around the world," said Alan Bornstein, who is overseeing development of the studio for Kroenke. Read more: New hotel at SoFi Stadium to cater to athletes and fans The studio is part of Hollywood Park's master development plan focusing on media, entertainment and technology, Bornstein said, anchored by SoFi Stadium, YouTube Theater and the NFL Media office building. "There has been an increasing convergence of media and technology and sports, all under the notion of entertainment that is now distributed in in multiple channels," Bornstein said, "whether it's through streaming or whether through broadcast television or movies in theaters," The first phase of Hollywood Park Studios will occupy 12 acres and will consist of five soundstages, each 18,000 square feet, two of which may be opened to a single 36,000-square-foot stage. The complex will have a three-story, 80,000-square-foot office building to support stage, production and postproduction activities. The studios will have a dedicated open base camp where trucks, equipment and actors' trailers could be placed, along with a parking structure for 1,100 cars. Future development could include as many as 20 stages and 200,000 square feet of related office space. The additional stages would be built to suit for future tenants as demand emerges, Bornstein said, who declined to estimate how much the studio complex will cost. Although demand for soundstages outstripped supply a few years ago, production has recently slowed and dampened the current need for them. Last year, the average annual occupancy rate dropped to 63%, a further indication of Hollywood's sustained production slowdown, according to a recent report by FilmLA, a nonprofit organization that tracks on-location shoot days in the Greater Los Angeles area. That was a decline from 2023, which saw an average regional occupancy rate of 69%. That was the year when dual strikes by writers and actors crippled the local production economy for months. The foray into Hollywood-level production facilities is part of Kroenke's goal to combine sports, entertainment and media from around the world, Bornstein said. In addition to the Rams, Kroenke is owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the Colorado Avalanche hockey team, the Colorado Rapids soccer team, the Colorado Mammoth lacrosse team and Arsenal Football Club, the Premier League soccer team based in London. SoFi Stadium, where the Chargers also play football, will be converted into the largest Olympic swimming venue in history during the Games in 2028. It will host the Olympic opening ceremony with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, as well as the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games. Kroenke is also a major real estate developer and landlord. The 300-acre Hollywood Park project is one of the largest mixed-use developments under construction in the western United States. SoFi Stadium alone cost $5 billion to build. Read more: Rams' new headquarters to be centerpiece of ambitious Warner Center development project Last month, he also unveiled plans for a new Rams headquarters on a 100-acre site at Warner Center in Woodland Hills that would include a residential and retail community intended to be the centerpiece of the San Fernando Valley. It could cost more than the total price of Hollywood Park, which has been valued by outside observers at more than $10 billion. Creating a second epicenter in Woodland Hills allows the Rams to significantly increase the size of their footprint in the Southern California market. 'When you're looking to do a practice facility, you don't need to be right in the middle of everything, and typically that real estate is very expensive,' Kroenke told The Times. 'We built an identity in the Valley, with Cal Lutheran, and a lot of our players and families are up there. Our experience was really good.' Architecture firm Gensler spearheaded the design for the Warner Center headquarters and Hollywood Park Studios. Clayco will be the general contractor for the studio, with Pacific Edge acting as project manager. Financing was arranged by Guggenheim Investments. Times staff writer Sam Farmer contributed to this report. Sign up for our Wide Shot newsletter to get the latest entertainment business news, analysis and insights. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
