Gone Viral – B2B In A Post-Pandemic Age
COVID has accentuated the need for constant brand and consumer interaction, but it’s also reshaped the nature of both B2C and B2B conversations. Before complexity takes over, it’s time to consider what you want to say.
What Will It Take For Fashion To Truly Embrace Digital?
In a year that has compressed significant digital transformation into a small span of time, how can fashion seize the opportunity for lasting change? Spoiler alert, it’s not just about technology.
In Manufacturing, The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty
The Portuguese textile industry has been a case study in overcoming disruption and seizing uncommon opportunities. In 2021, there’s a lot fashion could learn from its history.
Why The Modern, Mutual Supply Chain Must Run On Data
Brands have long accepted serious limitations on visibility into procurement and production. The last year has made the strongest case to date for breaking down those barriers – to brands’ and suppliers’ mutual benefit.
Rebuilding Post-COVID With A Smart, Sustainable Sourcing Strategy
There are a number of urgent reasons for brands and retailers to understand the scope and shape of their supply chains. Any smart sourcing strategy should start at the raw material level, which makes cotton the perfect case study.
Retooling: Why The Future Of Footwear Is Digital
The footwear industry has been at the forefront of 3D, but it still faces a difficult question: whether to design and engineer in 3D and visualise after, or to take the opposite approach.
The Imperative of Additive Manufacturing in Footwear and Apparel Post-Covid
How will the industry react to disrupted supply chains and accelerated consumer demands for sustainability and customization? Opportunity for change, or back to business as usual?
Video Interview: Is Digital Dyeing Ready For Prime-Time?
Replacing traditional dyeing methods with new digital solutions has the potential to transform an overlooked area of production.
But how far can digital dyeing go, and what does a future ecosystem built around it look like?
Redesigning Fashion with AI-Powered Supply Chains
The pandemic has intensified underlying problems with fashion supply chains. To cope with volatility and manage the unexpected, retailers and manufacturers now have the unavoidable task of evolving their manufacturing models through a hybrid of AI and IoT.
Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials
As fashion moves further into digital product creation, digital materials are increasingly in the spotlight. But creating them has been a more complex, time-consuming process than most designers can afford. Machine learning could be about to change all that.
3D: Bridging The Brand-Supplier Divide
With the initial rush to 3D over, is digital product creation running the risk of overlooking the people who actually create products? Or does a true, end-to-end, 3D ecosystem have the potential to bridge the longstanding brand-supplier divide?
Digitalising The Supply Chain – How Technology Is Becoming An Enabler For Change
True material transparency has two prerequisites: visibility at the fibre level, and the right technology to carry that visibility from one end of the value chain to the other, with integrity. The pieces are falling into place for both.
How Virtual Fabric Sourcing Is Opening Doors For Emerging Designers and Micro-Brands
The digitisation of material sourcing is a matter of efficiency and business continuity for large enterprises. For micro-brands and emerging designers, it’s a door to a whole new world.
Webinar Replay: 3D And DPC Survey Discussion
Late last year, Kalypso, The Interline, and a panel of industry insiders and experts convened to discuss the findings of the landmark 3D and digital product creation maturity survey. That live event was quickly booked up, but is now being made available as a full replay, to benchmark digital product creation for 2021.
Benchmarking Digital Product Creation for 2021
The assumption is that COVID has kick-started a surge in uptake of 3D and digital product creation technologies. How far does reality reflect that assumption? And how much further does fashion intend to take 3D in the near future?
Going Rogue: Is Fashion’s Next Generation Of Talent Skipping 2D In Favour Of 3D?
As adoption of 3D design, development, simulation and visualisation tools increases, what role does 2D patternmaking still have to play? Can it be sidestepped entirely? And what might that mean for the future of digital design?
The Full Fashion-Tech Spectrum
Throughout 2020 and into 2021, we will be covering the following hot fashion technology topics:
