🌟 Exclusive Interview: From Finance to Fashion Tech - How Meng Ji is Rewriting the Rules of Wholesale
Discover how the Arxy founder is making the fashion industry more accessible and sustainable by breaking down barriers, empowering emerging designers, and building the future of fashion business.
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🎙️ Today, we're sharing an exclusive interview with Meng JI, the founder and CEO of Arxy Virtual Showroom, who offers insights into his entrepreneurial journey and mission to revolutionise the fashion wholesale industry through immersive technology while making it more accessible and sustainable for brands worldwide.
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Meng JI began his career over two decades ago as a high-performing financial analyst, thriving on precision-level spreadsheets and endless coffee. However, despite excelling in the finance world, he soon realised he didn't want to spend his life recommending stocks, so he walked away from the corporate ladder to build his own path. What followed was a bold and unconventional entrepreneurial journey spanning advertising, international trade, and government relations across the Balkans, Oman, Ghana, and Zambia. 💫
The most transformative turn came when he met his wife, a creative force in fashion, through whom he entered the fashion world and never looked back. Together, they spent over 12 years helping independent brands grow, guiding them through everything from branding to international expansion. Meng witnessed incredible highs, such as a small atelier growing into a €20M label, and devastating lows, including visionary designers losing the rights to their own names.
In 2020, just after producing a fashion show in Milan and as the world went into lockdown, Meng relocated his family to Luxembourg. With time to reflect and his tech-savvy instincts reignited, he began designing a better future for the fashion industry. That was the beginning of Arxy Virtual Showroom. 🚀
🎤 Who are you? Tell us a bit about yourself and the role you play at Arxy Virtual Showroom today.
“My name is Meng, founder and CEO of Arxy Virtual Showroom. My journey began in finance as a young analyst, but over the past 19 years I've grown into a multi-sector entrepreneur with deep experience in the global fashion industry. After co-founding and scaling a successful brand consultancy with offices in Milan, Paris, and Beverly Hills, I saw firsthand the inefficiencies and limitations of the traditional wholesale model. Today, at Arxy, I lead a team that merges immersive technology with industry know-how to reinvent how fashion brands and retailers conduct their business, making the system more accessible, cost-effective, and sustainable.”
✨ Tell us about your mission! Do you have a mantra, a statement that you and your teams live by?
“Our mission at Arxy is simple but bold: To set a new standard on global wholesale, making it more accessible, more sustainable, and more human. 🌍
We believe creativity deserves better infrastructure. So our mantra is: 'No more closed doors. No more wasted talent.'
We live by this every day, building tools that remove geographic, financial, and operational barriers, especially for emerging brands who've long been left out of the traditional system. Whether it's through immersive technology, scalable showrooms, or data-light solutions for underserved markets, everything we do is designed to give fashion a fairer, smarter future. We're not just building software. We're building a new standard that will support the next generation of fashion!”
👀 Can you share your experience as the Founder of Arxy Virtual Showroom? What inspired you to start the company, and what has the journey been like so far?
“Founding Arxy Virtual Showroom was the result of two decades of real-world experience across finance, entrepreneurship, and the global fashion industry. The idea came to me during the pandemic, after years of helping brands grow and witnessing how deeply broken the wholesale model was, especially for emerging designers. I had seen talented creatives struggle not because they lacked vision, but because the system simply wasn't built to support them.
What inspired me was a mix of frustration and optimism. I wanted to build a platform that could eliminate the barriers I saw and allow brands and retailers to connect more meaningfully, more efficiently, and more sustainably. 💡
The journey has been intense. We started from a simple prototype in Luxembourg and today, Arxy is recognised by Vogue Business, showcased at Global Fashion Summit and Fashion Futures, and working with incredible brands and retailers globally. We're still at the beginning, but every conversation, demo, and client success confirms that we're building something the industry truly needs.”
⭐️ What is one of the most important lessons you've learned throughout your career?
"One of the most important lessons I've learned is this: the best ideas don't win, not unless they're executed with relentless focus, empathy, and timing. 🎯
You can have a brilliant concept, but if you don't deeply understand the people you're building for or if you wait for perfection instead of progress, you risk missing the moment entirely. In both finance and fashion, I've seen talent go unnoticed, businesses collapse under complexity, and teams get distracted chasing trends. What matters is staying clear on your 'why,' listening closely to your market, and building step by step, even if the path isn't glamorous.
Success, I've found, is rarely about luck. It's about clarity, consistency, and courage to keep going when the world doesn't yet see what you see."
Meng's evolution from financial analyst to fashion tech innovator showcases the power of following your instincts and embracing change. As Arxy Virtual Showroom continues to break down barriers in the wholesale space, his commitment to empowering emerging designers and creating a more sustainable industry ecosystem speaks volumes. With two decades of entrepreneurial experience and a clear vision for the future, Meng is building something that could fundamentally transform how fashion business gets done. This is just the beginning of his story. 👀
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