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There’s a new path to fashion brand leadership. That theme played out across discussions with brand founders, technology vendors and industry consultants at the NRF's Big Show conference this week in New York City. Rather than working their way up a corporate ladder, more people are becoming entrepreneurs, leveraging digital tools and platforms to chart their own career trajectories. Increasingly, this is creating big competition for established companies stuck in old ways.