Week in Review | Tomoko Ogura, Thomas Tait, Visual Search, Coloured Gemstones, Fashion PRs, Betaworks

LONDON, United Kingdom — "I've always felt that there is a difference between loving clothes and loving fashion," said our friend Tomoko Ogura in our latest instalment of Role Call, a series featuring talented professionals from across the fashion industry. I couldn't have said it better myself — and Tomoko's position as fashion director of Barneys New York is just one example of the many exciting roles that make this fascinating industry tick.

Our new BoF Careers platform has been gathering steam since its launch just one month ago. Each day, new jobs are added to the site by our group of exclusive launch partners and the response from the industry has been overwhelmingly positive. Each of these partners has been receiving a flow of targeted and high-quality job applications.

We are now opening the platform up to new partners and have already received hundreds of requests from companies eager to join BoF Careers and post their jobs. If you are interested in joining our group of high quality, industry-leading partners, please feel free to contact us here.

And, last but not least, I wanted to highlight two very special new roles posted on BoF Careers: BoF is currently hiring a PHP Software Engineer and a Visual & UX Designer here at the BoF headquarters in London as part of our growing product and technology team, which reports to our amazing new Chief Technology Officer, Walter Badillo, who joined BoF this month. Please apply and share these exciting opportunities with your friends and colleagues.

Enjoy our top articles from the past week:

Thomas Tait Speaks on Winning the Inaugural LVMH Prize
Minutes after Thomas Tait was awarded the inaugural LVMH Prize, BoF spoke to the London-based designer to discuss the prize and his plans.

Op-Ed | In Fashion E-Commerce, Service is the Key Differentiator
In a landscape where many online stores offer the same product at the same price, quality service is the key differentiator for fashion e-tailers, argues Jordy Leiser.

Coloured Gemstones Have Got Their Sparkle Back
For more than half a century, diamonds have dominated the market for fine jewellery. Now, the sea of sparkling white is being broken up by splashes of colour once again.

3 Rising Fashion PRs
Amidst a fast-evolving market landscape, BoF speaks to the founders of three young and rising fashion PR companies who are riding the waves of change with novel and unorthodox approaches.

Betaworks and the Dance of Fashion and Technology
Debra Scherer speaks to key members of Betaworks, a New York-based start-up studio and seed stage venture capital firm, to discuss how tech is becoming a new form of fashion and uncover what fashion can learn from how the tech company designs its stylish digital products.

Visual Search Set to Make World of Imagery Instantly Shopable
Sophisticated image-recognition technology, originally developed for security applications, is now being leveraged to identify and source fashion items, turning any encounter with a product into a potential sale. BoF speaks to Iain McCready, chief executive of Cortexica, about the power of visual search.

And don't forget, check out BoF Weekly, a week in review published with Flipboard and updated every Saturday.