Liz Bacelar has been straddling the line of fashion and technology since the days when fashion-tech meant LED lights on jackets and a slew of fashion apps designed in pink.
In 2011, Bacelar launched Decoded Fashion, an event series that connects entrepreneurs with fashion brands and designers. She left the company in 2016 and has since launched a new business, TheCurrent, a platform that matches brands with technology solutions.
It was inspired by Bacelar’s belief that fashion companies have limits to the tech they can pull off on their own.
“The talk of the town today is open innovation,” she said. “That means recognizing that there are boundaries to what you can do. You cannot be a tech company, but you should be a digitally minded company.”
