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~ Coffee Corner ~





                    offee or tea? When and how?                 designers to understand what their customers are experiencing
                    I’m Italian, so the answer is pretty easy, I have coffee   in their garments and what they are expecting in future
              Cin my veins.                                     collections. Thanks to this information, we can give accurate
                                                                data per market, body type and age to designers, who can
              Can you tell us a bit about Naiz Fit and yourself?   reduce issues caused by sizes at the very beginning of a
              Naiz Fit is a solution that aims to solve size-and-fit issues   collection.
              once and for all. Like many other size recommendation tools,
              we tried size recommendation while taking into account   Until now, most designers made decisions based on intuition
              purchasing history, brand comparison or even technical   and on the purchasing history of garments in previous
              measurements received by customers. However, we quickly   collections, but they were missing part of the information. They
              noticed that something was missing. We enjoy asking   were making decisions based on inspiration and not accurate
              ourselves what we can do better. After brainstorming and   data. We developed these solutions after many discussions
              talking to clients, the solution was right in front of us: trying   about how to optimise collections with different brands and are
              the garments on real people while including the fit as well.   currently in a pilot with Desigual, Silbon and El Ganso. In Q2,
              Size is just an orientation, but the real decision maker is how   we will be opening the tool to all our other existing customers.
              the clothing fits.
                                                                   My Size Inc - Smart mirrors, shoes and kids’ size
                 •   Step 1: We take all the details from the product feed   recommendation
                     of our customer’s online store to create clusters,   Last October, we were bought by My Size Inc, which is our
                     taking into account the kind of sizes, collection, fit,   mother company. We share our passion for fashion and our
                     and other technical details.               willingness to solve size-and-fit issues once and for all. Apart
                 •   Step 2: The Naiz Community is ON! We have a   from our own solutions, Size Form and Smart Catalogue,
                     community of fashion lovers who will try on the   we have a wider catalogue at our disposal to offer new
                     clothes in our headquarters. With every test, we   complementary options to our customers: shoe and kids size
                     gather a lot of information for our customers.  recommendations and smart mirrors, an interactive mirror to
                 •   Step 3: The tool is live and working. Using only five   help the omnichannel experience in retail.
                     details, consumers can get their perfect size: age,
                     weight, height, gender and fit preferences.   How are these size-and-fit solutions able to help
                                                                retailers/brands improve their (online) business?
              Could you tell us about the current size and fit issues   Better understanding of the collection - One of our clients was able
              within e-commerce?                                to see that there was a huge difference between the age range of
              One of the most important barriers in fashion e-commerce   consumers in different countries, and so was able to adapt their
              is sizing. You might like a product, but if you don’t know   marketing strategy to reach their real final customers.
              the brand, you might not be sure about your size. Thus, the
              chance is quite big that you will probably not buy it, affecting   Better understanding of where to send every garment - One of our
              conversion rates.                                 customers realised that they were missing out on opportunities
                                                                in dresses in some markets. Our tool sent us an alarm that many
              All in all, I would say that these are the current size-and-fit   people were registering body measurements (height) that were not
              issues within e-commerce: conversion rates, AOV, purchasing   covered by the current collection, specifically 25% of the requests.
              and supply chain management, impact on the environment   The customer added one more size in dresses for that country, thus
              due to packaging and CO2 from transportation, and   improving customer satisfaction, conversion rate and turnover.
              returns which affect margins, products that you will need
              to recondition to sell, products in the “cloud” and unhappy   Lastly, could you tell us about some of the latest
              customers.                                        trends within sizing and fitting and how they affect
                                                                retailers/brands?
              What kind of size-and-fit solutions does Naiz Fit of-  The fashion industry has always been challenging; it mixes art,
              fer in order to prevent these issues?             feelings and aspiration. The regularisation of online fashion sales
              We offer multiple solutions:                      after the pandemic, inflation and metaverse are quite common
                                                                topics, but I would like to focus on what we can control at this
                 Naiz Size Form                                 moment. If we understand the sizes our customers need, we will
              Size & Fit recommendation for online fashion e-commerce.   be able to improve our buying, optimise our supply chain and
              With this solution, we are only working with men, women and   reduce overstock. New regulations are coming to avoid huge
              teen collections, not including kids.             amounts of lost items, and the only way to reduce overstock will
                                                                be to make informed decisions. In other words, making fashion
                 Naiz Smart Catalogue                           adapt to our body types and not adapting our body types to
              Our Tester Community creates a new opportunity for   fashion. ••







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