Why People Are Still The Missing Piece Of The Sustainability Puzzle – And What Fashion Can Do About It
In the wake of the pandemic, sustainability strategies are undergoing greater scrutiny, and industry-wide, people are coming a distant second to planet. Fashion needs to take measurable action on living wages – but how?
The Looming Precision Problem In Fit Technology
Body scanning with consumer-facing software is commonplace, but several post-pandemic trends are set to seriously test the accuracy of the data the accepted methods of body data capture generate.
Outsider Art: How Fashion’s Model Of Production Is Being Reshaped By Prosumer Passion
As well as offering a way to control overproduction, on-demand manufacturing could be the tool fashion needs to welcome empowered consumers and the creator economy into what has historically been a closed loop.
Interline Identities: Joachim Hensch
Smart manufacturing can be a nebulous term, but Joachim Hensch has helped put it into practice for one of the world’s most recognisable brands. His definition carries a lot of weight.
COVID Demonstrates Why Connected Supply Chains Must Start On The Factory Floor
Following the disruption caused by COVID, brand and supplier relationships must evolve to deliver true visibility – starting on the factory floor.
FinTech In Fashion Is Contentious. Can New Solutions Change the Negative Narrative?
Fintech solutions can be easily categorised as either enabling easy consumption or challenging negative behaviours. But the truth is not so black and white.
Interline Identities: Chris Govier, President EMEA, Kornit Digital
The pieces are falling into place for digital printing – both direct to garment and direct to roll – to overturn the traditional sourcing network and supply chain. The Interline speaks to one of the key minds behind the transition – at a pivotal time.
Overcoming The Bottlenecks In Digital Product Creation With Machine Learning-Assisted Material Digitisation
While digital product creation promises rapid turnarounds, and revolutionary ways to shorten product lifecycles, significant bottlenecks exist in the material digitisation process. Machine learning could offer new ways to automate and accelerate the creation of digital materials at scale.
Workshop Replay: Rebuilding Retail
Uncertainty is everywhere as retail reopens post-pandemic, and everything is open to re-evaluation. This workshop replay captures the retail recovery at a critical juncture.
Retooling: The Push & Pull of Tradition vs. Digitisation
Like any new technology, digital product creation steps into existing creative tensions it can ease, but can potentially introduce its own.
How Digital Product Creation Helped New Balance Prepare For The Pandemic, And Pull Ahead Afterwards
COVID turned digital materials & 3D assets into survival tools, but the Boston footwear giant could be a guiding light towards what’s going to be possible with digital product creation post-pandemic.
Interline Identities – Rebecca Morter, Founder & CEO, Lone Design Club
When retail returns to full capacity, it will be operating in a changed world. What shoppers want from physical stores and online channels has evolved rapidly, and Rebecca Morter believes retailers need to catch up – and quickly.
A CDN For Fashion: The Asset-First Approach To Production
How the principles of cloud architecture and digital asset management could provide a template for a more futureproof model of production and fulfilment.
From Render To Real: Delivering On The Promise Of Digital Design To On-Demand Production
Why the right 3D environment could be the key to unlocking the potential of end-to-end digital workflows, and to powering on-demand production.
Extracting Maximum Value From Apparel And Footwear 3D Assets – Up And Downstream
With digital product creation now firmly established as a key strategy for many brands, the question is turning to what additional value can be unlocked from 3D assets beyond prototyping and sampling – and what pieces need to be put in place to enable that value to be realised.
The Real Solution For Returns: Mass Tailoring
The vision for true personalisation often clashes with the question of how one-off production can scale. But that burden could be eased by answering an earlier question: can the individualisation of patterns be automated?
The Full Fashion-Tech Spectrum
Throughout 2021 and into 2022, we will be covering the following hot fashion technology topics:
