Elian Kuo.
is the Co-CEO & Founder of lablaco and Circular Fashion Summit.
Eliana (ShihYun) Kuo, the co-CEO and founder of Lablaco, world's leading platform accelerating fashion digitization and transition towards a circular economy, who uses blockchain to enable product ownership and impact traceability, circular-retail-as-a-service (CRaaS) for brands and retailers, and the Circular Fashion Summit to foster better partnerships of actions for the industry through Virtual Reality.
Eliana has been recognised on Top 50 Female in Tech by VivaTechnology, Top 27 power players transforming fashion into a sustainable and ethical industry by Business Insider, Tatler’s Gen.T list and as a Green Is The New Black Green Warrior.
Born in Taipei and living between Paris and Milan, Eliana is a Data and Digital Innovation Entrepreneur with 8+ years of experience in Luxury Retail Buying & Merchandising Management, Data System and Digital Media. After obtained a luxury fashion MBA at SDA Bocconi School of Management, she entered in Luxury industry as Retail Business Analyst in Etro, following APAC Merchandising & Buying supervisor in Giorgio Armani HQ, in Milan.
Solution-driven thinker, she was honoured to be assigned personally by General Manager of Giorgio Armani HQ to develop new technology projects for the Maison, brought to life a few Startups across Europe and Asia in KOLs & Online Media, Digital Marketing and Fashion & Lifestyle Retail sectors, with clients such as Vogue, Officiel, Dolce&Gabbana and Vionnet.
In 2016, she co-founded lablaco, the first Circular Fashion Ecosystem with a mission to accelerate the digitalisation and transition towards the Circular Economy of the Fashion Industry. By leveraging Blockchain within an open source platform, Lablaco aims to redesign a new ecosystem for fashion industry by introducing new sustainable business models and re-defining the relationships among retailers, brands, designers, influencers, content creators and consumers in a single system.
“Digitalization is the key to make fashion circular, transparent and more sustainable in business.” - Eliana Kuo, lablaco