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Ask HN: Fashion companies with high R&D spending?

2 points by eaenki ↗ HN
So, I just realised 99% of brands slap on Chinese bare min. quality items their brand and call it a day. Even luxury ones. But, take Nike. You try their flyknit shoes and you go "wow", because they're SO good. They spent $B in R&D and they x10ed the comfort, speed or whatever. Can you name other fashion/clothing/footwear brands/items that actually keep increasing their quality YoY?

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kvee
Maybe not really what you're asking, but http://streamoid.com/ is a fashion startup investing a lot in cutting edge computer vision R&D. Seems to be real demand for at least that type of thing from some big brands.