Shenlei Winkler combines 30 years of couture and mass market fashion design experience with 10 years of technical marketing experience with value added resellers. As a fashion designer, Winkler designed and sold multiple styles to the #1 global retailer, resulting in more than $30MM in sales per collection. Winkler is the founder of the Fashion Research Institute, Inc. (www.fashionresearchinstitute.com), which has an ongoing collaboration with Intel Corporation to continue research into the use of virtual worlds as an accessible 3D medium for creative industries. Winkler is the lead inventor on a pending co-patent with IBM, “Method and Apparatus for Virtual World Based Product Design”.
Currently, Winkler is focused on developing an immersive, fully converged retail experience incorporating social media and new retail channels to deliver the ultimate experiential on-line shopping experience. This pilot project is called Carriage Trade’, and includes digital content sales, retail sales of related products, social media connection to site such as Facebook, Twitter, Linker-In, and Flickr, and other brand extensions.
Hi Shenlei,
I think you’re a genius! And an amazing person in addition! I love your fabrics, especially the equestrian designs! I am the founder of PonyUP!Kentucky (www.PonyUPKentucky.com), and I make handbags to raise money for horses rescue. Since 2010, we’ve raised over $10,000 and donated it to various horse rescue organizations around the country. I would love to buy yards and yards of your gorgeous fabrics–I know my horse ladies will go crazy over them. I wonder if you can tell me how long it takes to receive the fabrics after ordering, and if you offer any discounts to wholesalers. (I’m sorry if all of this is evident on Spoonflower, I’ve never ordered from that site before) I’ve got a dressage event coming up at the end of May, and I’d love to create some new handbags using your awesome fabric if that sounds acceptable to you. Thank you so much! Hope you’re having a great day!
Rallie