With over 1,000 monitored cities, the IFDAQ’s Global Fashion & Luxury Cities IPX index reveals the global hotspots that have a profound influence in the world of fashion and luxury.

Vienna, Austria -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/21/2021 -- The IFDAQ, a leading provider of AI-driven alternative data and deep analytics in the fashion & luxury industry, today published its official ranking of the most important and powerful fashion capitals.

The industry-wide acknowledged ranking for Q1/2021 sees the so-called "Big Four" at the top of the index who have remained the center for fashion, with New York still ahead of Paris, followed by Milan and London.

Among the key findings and some major position shifts, which are certainly favored by market turbulences due to the ongoing COVID-crisis, the index also reconfirms that a slew of new fashion capitals keeps challenging the top positions. Among these, Los Angeles and Sydney managed to reduce the gap to the "Big Four".

"Fashion capitals are the creative heart and aesthetic fuel of fashion, and the core of its power structure. Finding who is leading and their dynamics is key to any stakeholder in the industry and beyond. New York and Paris lead the pack as expected, but others rise and fall - in ways that are genuinely surprising," Professor Dr. Frederic Godart, Co-CEO of the IFDAQ and Associate Professor at INSEAD, commented on the last index release.

The Top 10 of the IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities Q1/2021:

1. New York 129.42 (-1.73%)
2. Paris 127.87 (-0.35%)
3. Milan 100.91 (+1.37%)
4. London 82.80 (-0.29%)
5. Los Angeles 24.12 (+1.60%)
6. Sydney 21.21 (-0.56%)
7. Tokyo 17.38 (+0.97%)
8. Madrid 16.33 (+1.44%)
9. Moscow 14.80 (+4.57%)
10. Sao Paulo 14.41 (+0.28%)

A full list of the IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities IPX along with the methodology details can be viewed online at the official research website:https://research.ifdaq.com/cities/.

About the IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities IPX and the IPX technology
The IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities IPX is the first smart cognitive index that relies onIFDAQ's proprietary IPX technology (an acronym for Intelligent Performance Index) that has the capability to generate quantitative and highly precise key values for AI-driven and real-time market research.

About IFDAQ
The IFDAQ is a multiple-awarded proprietary deep-learning technology that turns a highly complex fashion & luxury industry into an intelligent, predictable, and transparent AI-ecosystem by providing alternative performance data and fundamental KPIs that are made visible for the first time.

If you want to know more aboutthe IFDAQ, its data, technologies and products, please get in touch with us or visit https://www.ifdaq.com/.

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From New York to Paris, the IFDAQ reveals the Top20 cities that have a profound influence on the world of fashion and luxury.

Vienna, Austria -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/26/2018 -- The IFDAQ, a leading provider of exclusive KPIs and deep analytics in fashion & luxury, today published its official ranking of the most important and powerful Global Fashion and Luxury Cities.

The industry-wide acknowledged ranking reveals that the so-called 'Big Four' - New York, Paris, Milan and London - have remained the center for fashion in 2018, but in recent times, a slew of new smaller cities emerged challenging their position.

The official Top20 of the IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities 2018:

N1 - New York - 19,65
N2 - Paris - 16,64
N3 - Milan - 14,41
N4 - London - 11,12
N5 - Madrid - 1,82
N6 - Tokyo - 1,51
N7 - Sao Paulo - 1,42
N8 - Los Angeles - 1,40
N9 - Sydney - 1,38
N10 - Stockholm - 1,32
N11 - Barcelona - 1,30
N12 - Moscow - 1,26
N13 - Munich - 1,13
N14 - Florence - 1,11
N15 - Beijing - 0,90
N16 - Hamburg - 0,89
N17 - Seoul - 0,85
N18 - Amsterdam - 0,71
N19 - Rome - 0,69
N20 - Berlin - 0,68

In an earlier study (Q2/2018) that addressed the ranking's development and the dynamics of fashion capitals, Iva Mirbach, Head of Research at IFDAQ, stated: "We have seen how the power structure of fashion has evolved and a new line up of rival cities have emerged in recent times. Fashion capitals change periodically and none of the 'Big Four' are sacrosanct as such, with each of them having to re-assert their authority from time to time. The list also confirms that we are moving towards a poly-centric system of fashion cities."

Professor Dr. Frederic Godart, Co-CEO of the IFDAQ and Academic Director of the Luxury Certificate at HEC Paris, commented the TOP20: ""This is a unique ranking that relies on an exceptionally broad and deep range of data and provides a fine-grained vision of the global fashion industry. We believe this will help fashion professionals make more informed decisions."

German scientist and Head of Data, Dr. Reimund Homann, added: "Our data show that indeed, the Big Four still remain the Big Four. In addition, our data is giving an insight into the individual strengths of the fashion capitals as well as the smaller cities."

The IFDAQ's City Index (FACER) is a daily updated, comprehensive, transparent and highly precise rating for over 1,000 monitored fashion cities around the world. As part of the IFDAQ virtual ecosystem and built on deep learning technologies, its algorithm considers a high-dimensional data pool of significant factors and sub-factors, including the city's relative worldwide market volume, industry share, turnover potential, socio-demographic and overall influence.

A full study on the IFDAQ Global Fashion & Luxury Cities from Q2/2018 along with the methodology details can be viewed online at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-most-important-powerful-global-fashion-cities-iva-mirbach/.

The latest ranking has been featured in the current print edition (3/2018) of the O.VATION Magazine -the magazine for the communications industry with a focus on PR, strategic communication and media intelligence published by the renowned Austrian company OBSERVER.

If you want to know your city's ranking or for more information, please get in touch with us or visit http://www.ifdaq.com/.

About IFDAQ

The IFDAQ (acronym for International Fashion Dynamic Automated Quantification system) makes the fashion and luxury industries more intelligent and productive. It reveals, and measures, the real market performance of all stakeholders and entities in these industries, as well as the impact of their actions.

Thanks to values that come from an intelligent ecosystem that creates a high-dimensional virtual image of the industry, the very first AI-driven Fashion Intelligence Unit with real-time industry monitoring for the entire industry offers unprecedented in-depth insights and delivers robust and novel scientific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the most salient currency in fashion & luxury: market power, influence, and reputation. It makes these driving factors visible, which always have been there, but never could be measured. Until today. Notably, the IFDAQ does not rely on proprietary and confidential data to operate: its accuracy stems from an outside-in perspective.

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As a member of the exclusive AI Builders Partner Program, IFDAQ gains access to leading-edge resources for Artificial Intelligence, deep learning and data science.

Vienna, Austria -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/21/2018 -- IFDAQ,a leading provider of exclusive KPIs and deep analytics in fashion & luxury, today announced it has been chosen to join the Intel® AI Builders Partner Program, an ecosystem of industry leading independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and enterprise end users who have a shared mission to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across Intel platforms.

"Intel® is a leader in the deep learning revolution, and we are honored to have been accepted into their renowned AI Builders Partner Program as the first Austrian AI company," said Daryl de Jori, Head of Innovation and founding member of IFDAQ. "At IFDAQ, we're developing and applying deep learning analytics to high value use cases for analyzing the fashion & luxury industry down to the smallest unit, and Intel's AI Builders program will help us gain access to new marketing channels and partners who can benefit from the deepest industry and market analytics."

"We are always happy to win partners such as Intel to foster and develop our revolutionary technologies in order to offer a high dimensional image and a deep understanding of the fashion and luxury universe" added the venture's newly appointed Co-CEO and fashion & luxury expert from HEC Paris, Prof. Dr. Frederic Godart.

On Intel's choice to add IFDAQ to its program, Peter Bas, Intel AI Builders EMEA Account Manager, commented: "Part of my job within our program is to research companies with AI-based products within the EMEA region, and IFDAQ immediately caught my eye because of their compelling solution in an industry as big and important as fashion & luxury."

Intel AI Builders is a valuable resource for the enterprise AI ecosystem and is part of the Intel Builders program, which provides broad ecosystem collaboration communities across environments, from data center to edge. The program facilitates and accelerates the work of Intel's AI partners from an optimization perspective, while also enabling them to monetize their solutions by leveraging Intel's customer base, in addition to our sales and marketing resources. Together, Intel Builders program members are driving the next generation of AI innovation.

IFDAQ's official AI Builders profile can be found at https://builders.intel.com/ai/membership/ifdaq.

About IFDAQ
The IFDAQ (acronym for International Fashion Dynamic Automated Quantification system)makes the fashion and luxury industries more intelligent and productive. It reveals, and measures, the real market performance of all stakeholders and entities in these industries, as well as the impact of their actions.

Thanks to values that come from an intelligent ecosystem that creates a high-dimensional virtual image of the industry, the very first AI-driven Fashion Intelligence Unit with real-time industry monitoring for the entire industry offers unprecedented in-depth insights and delivers robust and novel scientific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the most salient currency in fashion &luxury: market power, influence, and reputation. It makes these driving factors visible, which always have been there,but never could be measured. Until today. Notably, the IFDAQ does not rely on proprietary and confidential data to operate: its accuracy stems from an outside-in perspective.

For more information, visit: http://www.ifdaq.com/.

Visit Intel's AI Builders Partner Program website to learn more. https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-ai-builders-program-accelerates-ai-enterprise-ecosystem-growth/

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As a member of the exclusive virtual accelerator program, IFDAQ gains access to leading-edge resources for artificial intelligence, deep learning and data science.

Vienna, Austria -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/03/2017 -- IFDAQ has gained acceptance into NVIDIA's Inception program, a nurture program for exceptional startups revolutionizing industries with advances in AI and data sciences.

The Inception program offers customized resources that range from hardware grants to collaboration with NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute to raising visibility for the unique value and innovations IFDAQ can bring to market using NVIDIA's deep learning platform. The relationship also includes access to NVIDIA's latest GPU accelerators as well as a global AI and deep learning ecosystem with a massive network of deep learning experts and opinion leaders.

"We are honored to be part of NVIDIA's AI-startup family that is fostered with a number of benefits, including early access to state-of-the-art technology," commented Daryl de Jori, Head of New Technologies and founding member of IFDAQ. "As an AI-driven technology that generates billions of data sets daily through a series of high-dimensional algorithms, the IFDAQ could also benefit by building smarter calculation processes to shorten computing times. The collaboration with NVIDIA also boosts our ability to maximize our efficiency and data-driven processes in a manner that was previously thought impossible."

"NVIDIA is a great fit for our technological research and development plan. We have already initiated the process to make our core systems GPU-ready and to fully explore the further potential that comes with NVIDIA's latest GPU technology," added the venture's Chief Technical Officer, Markus Ubeleis.

On the recent addition, NVIDIA's Daniel Saaristo, Inception Manager CEE comments: "IFDAQ's unique and powerful techniques can truly revolutionize the fashion industry. Our Inception program is the right platform for exceptional startups to accelerate their progress."

About IFDAQ
The IFDAQ is the most advanced and powerful AI system that provides quantitative market values for anyone and everything in the fashion and luxury industry. The IFDAQ values come from an intelligent ecosystem that creates a high-dimensional virtual image of the fashion industry and measures the effective market value based on the relative performance in the industry of a fashion entity.

This all provides the very first real Fashion Intelligence Unit with real-time industry monitoring for the entire industry, and the power of Artificial Intelligence used to define your daily market, trend, influence, industry importance, reputation value offering an endless variety of insights, benchmarks, predictive analytics and much more.

For more information, visit: http://www.ifdaq.com/.

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Vienna, Austria -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/30/2017 -- The IFDAQ is excited to announce the appointment of Frederic Godart, Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, to its Advisory Board.

The startup, which is home to a pioneering real-time industry monitoring system that provides the first real Fashion Intelligence Unit, continues its strategy to build a strong team with outstanding personalities from science and the fashion industry.

Godart, who holds a PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York, brings a vast wealth of experience from his research on the structure and culture of the fashion industry. As an internationally renowned scientist, he will advise the company on the global dynamics of the fashion industry to achieve competitive intelligence. Prior to joining INSEAD as a full-time tenure-track faculty, Godart worked for three years with McKinsey & Company, where he developed his practical knowledge in competitive intelligence and social network analysis. As an author of books and peer-reviewed articles on fashion and the creative industries, he has received several prestigious awards such as the Academy of Management OB Division's 2012 Best Paper Award.

"I am very proud that Frederic Godart has decided to join IFDAQ's Advisory Board and believes in this exciting project," said Daryl de Jori, Founder and CEO of IFDAQ. "His strong background, deep expertise in Fashion and wide range of competencies will surely increase IFDAQ's position and understanding of the market." de Jori added.

Godart, who also holds a professorship at the University of Bologna, adds his fashion expertise to the industry core team that includes Head of Research, Iva Mirbach.

"IFDAQ has a critical role to play in fashion. As a groundbreaking and unique analysis tool for the industry it can help leading fashion stakeholders to spot the next big name," said Godart. "IFDAQ stands to become a breakthrough in intelligent quantification systems, notably to predict careers and performance of fashion professionals. This is a huge unknown, currently, for which we have no consistent methods of evaluation, and yet it can make or break the success of any fashion entity."

About IFDAQ
IFDAQ is a powerful AI-system that provides infinite insight into the real market and benchmark value of the fashion industry and its professionals. With a unique combination of the most advanced techniques in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Scientific Quantification, the IFDAQ introduces a new era of highly intelligent data processing by breaking down one of the world's largest industry to the absolute smallest quantifiable unit.

Unprecedented scientific in-depth analytics quantify the market value, power and influence of everything that counts in fashion: from the fashion model to the fashion magazine, from the brand to the fashion work – right down to the value of a single editorial image or a single catwalk run.

For more information, visit: http://www.ifdaq.com/

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