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Fashion Tech Expert Coy Griffin is Encouraging Designers to Find 'Your Own Creativity'

With fashion technology, designers are connecting with consumers in more direct, innovative ways, and Coy Griffin wants more people of color at the forefront of that discovery. The Bronx-born Afro-Latina didn’t take the conventional path to fashion technology. She landed in the industry after gaining a slew of on-the-job experience at corporate internships and gigs at IBM and Johnson & Johnson. “When I was in college, I interned for Johnson & Johnson as a regular data analyst punching numbers all day,” she said. “At that point, I wanted to pivot into the fashion industry using my knowledge of data analytics, so I just started Googling fashion analyst jobs, and that’s when I discovered trend forecasting.” Even after discovering forecasting and working at a variety of fashion-tech startups, the Clarkson University graduate launched Your Own Creativity to truly marry her passion for fashion and technological innovations. The YOC is a content platform that helps make fashion tech easy...

Niki McGloster

Jun 1, 2020