Emily Steinke

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Emily is a footwear designer and co-founder of DUO Design Studio, with over 10 years of experience in the footwear industry. At DUO, she focuses on providing brands with digital alternatives to reduce pre-production waste while offering tools to leverage these digital assets across e-commerce and marketing channels.

The Persistent Business Case For Replacing Physical Samples In Fashion Footwear

byEmily Steinke
January 30, 2025
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A huge amount of innovation and engineering goes into creating new footwear platforms. But the “fashion” component of future iterations on those platforms can be responsible for significant amounts of waste and inefficiency. Virtual samples, despite being the most well-worn use case for DPC, could be the solution.