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The High Bar For Disrupting Knitting

Outside of software itself, knitting is probably the closest thing fashion has to coding: a verifiable, binary discipline defined by scarce talent, and specialised software and hardware. Upending it might be the industry’s high bar for new technology - but one company is trying anyway.
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  • 38 minute read
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The Forking Path From Invention To Industrialisation

Upstream innovation, in materials, processing, and production, has had a chequered few years. Promising pilots routinely fail to take flight or achieve commercial scale. What does success on the journey from lab to big-label deployment actually look like?
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  • 34 minute read
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The Future Of Fashion’s Thirst For Water

Fashion devotes a lot of time to securing its inputs, but the importance of water to the industry’s supply chain goes under-discussed, and water is not quantified and assessed the way carbon is. But as water justice becomes a more acute business continuity risk, the demand to reckon with fashion’s thirst is growing.
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  • 29 minute read
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Podcast: Proving Out The Pre-Loved Luxury Model

The case is strong for someone to own the secondary market, but whether that winds up being first or third-party ownership will depend as much on platforms and standards as it does on business models and incentives.
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Podcast: Is Innovation Shaping Storytelling Or Vice Versa?

Fashion and beauty are surrounded by digital surfaces and physical spaces, and technology has fast become a fixture of how the higher echelons of both industries tell stories and create experiences. But what does the work really look like? And which force - tech or narrative - is in the driving seat?
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  • 34 minute read
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Podcast: Earning The Right To Replace Spreadsheets

Fashion professionals, particularly in planning-related disciplines, are tasked with making a lot of decisions. The environment those choices live in is still stubbornly Excel, so what does it take to design software to replace spreadsheets - especially when AI is added to the mix?
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  • 31 minute read
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Podcast: What’s Really Inside A Forecast?

When you're dealing with culture and change, the shifting sweet spot between analytical models and human judgment is determined as much by time as it is by technology. A conversation with the CEO of WGSN.
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Podcast: Sustainability Through A Different Lens

How a combination of hard-coded values around size and price inclusivity, a willingness to recognise the limits of existing systems, and commitment to looking at things differently manifest themselves in a unique sustainability strategy.
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  • 27 minute read
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Podcast: What’s The Deal With Design Operations?

Repeatedly turning creativity into the right product outcomes can feel like an exercise in luck. Can pairing digital product creation with an operationalised approach to design allow brands to tip the scales in their favour?
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Podcast: The Push And Pull Of Tooling And Teaching For Design

From building repeatable systems to constantly updating their pipelines, seasoned and incoming designers are both working at the bleeding edge. What are they finding there? And what does it mean for the future of hybrid skills, and the balance between 3D and AI?