Outpacing The Recession Through Refined Assortment Planning
Facing uncertainty and multi-faceted risk, fashion retail has shifted into protection mode. But technology could hold the key to competing in a complex climate.
Is Fashion Ready For The Second Age Of Sustainability?
Tightening regulations and sweeping 2030 sustainability targets will define a new age of sustainability. Across materials and labour, fashion brands will need sweeping change to compete.
Making Sense Of The Metaverse: To DAO Or Not To DAO
Beyond token-backed assets, Web3 also opens the door to decentralised operations. But can fashion actually benefit from the DAO approach? And is it just another way of gauging demand?
Moving From 3D To A New Digital Product Creation Ecosystem
For fashion to truly scale its Digital Product Creation ambitions, the industry must switch from thinking about 3D as something to buy into, to recognising that the full potential of DPC requires a deeper commitment.
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A Perfect Storm: Why Technology Now Touches Every Part Of Fashion
To overcome uncertainty and capture new opportunities, nearly every role in fashion will be influenced by technology. We explore what this means for fashion professionals - in writing, and in person as part of a new live event partnership.
Where Digital And Physical Collide: The New Era of Digital Fashion Shows
Beyond the novelty, digital fashion shows broke down notoriously high barriers. Now the industry is looking towards an equilibrium between the spectacle of physical and the liberation of digital. Can it find it?
Making Sense Of The Metaverse: Fashion Technology’s Age Of Acceleration
A combined technology and cultural shift catapulted the Metaverse to the top of brand and retail agendas. Fashion now has to hit a moving target by building meaningful real-time experiences at the same time as identifying viable business models.
2021, The Year Of Fashion NFTs
This has been the year of NFT fever. But what are NFTs, why is everyone rushing to cash in, and what do they mean for an industry that has remained resolutely physical for so long?
A Different 3D Output: Understanding Fashion’s New Digital Frontier
Fashion has made big strides with 3D, but streamlining the process of creating physical products is a different prospect from selling digital ones. What might a seamless digital fashion workflow look like?
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?
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.
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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.
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.
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.