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VOILA is an AI-powered social commerce platform connecting brands, creators, and shoppers, with a built-in link management tool and comprehensive data analytics. The founding members came from renowned companies around the world including Google, Amazon, Tiktok, and Rent the Runway.

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Voila French for “there it is!” Voilà lives up to its name, with a visual search engine that does all the work for you. It recognizes clothing, searches its database, and serves up similar styles from retailers and designers across the web. As a creator and as a consumer, this is very exciting. From support on content management to build their own social storefront, the vast offerings at Voilà allow every influencer to easily find the most fitting tool that helps them excel.

Today we are joined by an amazing guest Corii Burns founder of Luxury sustainable Corii Burns. Her brand Corii Burns is a luxury deconstructed brand that focuses on diversity, socioeconomics, and sustainability as a catalyst for social change through fashion.  Her collections are inspired and designed to highlight the diversity of the black diaspora and continued efforts to improve equity and inclusion.
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Quieesha BURNS(CORi!), is an American designer based in New York & Paris. She studied at IFA Paris (Masters in Contemporary Fashion Design). Her deconstructed tailoring, with an inclusive vision for the future of sustainable fashion, is intriguing. As well as her innovative perspective on upcycling, low waste direction, usage of deadstock fabrics and pre-loved garments, creating an ethical and out-of-the-box fashion.

Today we are joined by an amazing guest Sumedha brand head & co-founder of Whe. We spoke about Eco - Friendly & handmade lifestyle jewellery, Whe is a women-run business which has supported the marginal communities in India & all about sustainable business & consumer practices. We'll discuss the ins and outs of sustainable jewellery in India.

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Whe is a jewellery & lifestyle brand started in 2020, by founder Priyanka Khandelwal. WHE stands for Made by Women, Handmade and Eco-friendly. It is a design-driven, ethical fashion brand, committed to bringing marginalized families out of the poverty cycle and inspiring consumers to buy eco-friendly and handmade products. The brand ensures a fair family investment in education, health, and savings by adding mothers to the workforce and doubling their family income. The brand has also helped many families during the pandemic by supporting women who had lost their domestic jobs.
The brand works with many different eco-friendly, sustainable materials like discarded fabric, waste wood, jute etc and upcycles them into jewellery using various hand techniques of artisans like hand embroidery, block printing, hand braiding, macrame etc. Today the brand has empowered more than 180 Women & trained over 500 to become independent The brand was also awarded the Savitri Sanmaan Award in 2017 by Maharashtra One.

A short podcast & life update. This will be the end of season one of Fashionably Awkward Podcast. See you in season 2 guys. 



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Today we have a very special guest Rishitha Jahanvi. She is a young dreamer who also happens to be a model and aspires to be Miss India one day. Accorded with not one but two titles -   

1.Karamveer Chakra in 2021  for her contribution towards  abolishing caste system in India through her NGO Ensure the project 

2. And the winner of Confidence and crown 2022, a training academy for models. She is not only an inspiration for people around her but also for thousands of people who connect with her through social media.

In today's episode, we will talk about blurring lines between digital & physical world, new shift in consumer behaviour towards social media dressing & all about digital clothing with James. We'll discuss the ins and outs of Phygitial fashion.  



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We’re very excited to welcome our special guest James Gaubert,  founder & creative director of Republiqe for today’s episode.  



 republiqe, a brand launched in August 2020, is the worlds first fully digital luxury fast fashion brand that designs unique creations that break the norm, interpreting and creating an extraordinary lifestyle, not only challenging, but redefining an entire category.