Melinda Cox is the founder and inventor of Shapeless, a proprietary manufacturing method for the garment industry, designed to integrate into existing production as a licensable capability, with the goal of reducing fit-driven returns for brands while converting an existing manufacturing cost into recovered margin for manufacturers.

Her approach addresses the fit and waste problem simultaneously, not through design changes or post-consumer recycling, but by restructuring how value is captured within the manufacturing process itself.

She built Shapeless independently, working through multiple prototype rounds to develop and protect the method. Shapeless holds IP protection at two levels.

Melinda completed the Sullivan Family Ideator Program at Vanderbilt University's Wond'ry Center for Innovation, and is based in Australia.