Discussing DPC with Mark Harrop of WhichPLM
The Founder and CEO of WhichPLM discusses the opportunities in efficiency and creativity that DPC and AI could provide for fashion, with the right investment and optimisation.
Is Tech Innovation Essential To Building A Multi-Brand Online Fashion Business?
With Matches Fashion’s recent implosion, the fashion industry will be looking for clues from the rubble about what it takes to succeed - and to stand out - as a multi-brand online fashion retailer. The answer is likely to hinge on technology and innovation as much as assortment, relationships, and service.
Hearts And Minds: How DPC Is Slowly, But Surely, Becoming Standard Practice – And What That Means For the Supply Chain
Beyond the proven value of digital assets and workflows in-house, how successful has fashion been at accessing the DPC expertise that exists in the supply chain? And how prepared is the supplier base for the extra weight of expectation that’s being placed on it?
From The Era Of Web1 To The Rise Of Trend Oracles: AI Unveils Fashion’s Web3 Era Of Hyper-Personalisation
The architecture of the web has long influenced the way we think about trend. With that foundation changing, what might it mean for the future of fashion?
Discussing DPC with Jean-Pierre Pedeboy of Strategies
The CEO of Strategies, Jean-Pierre Pedeboy, discusses the most effective ways for fashion businesses to stay ahead of the curve and achieve sustainable growth, and the barriers currently preventing DPC’s full potential.
Fashion’s Next Generation: How Technology And Culture Are Combining
Technology has become a driving force behind cultural evolution, affecting not just the way designers and brands work, but the products they create. What does the next evolutionary step for fashion - and society - look like?
Are Consumers Ready To Trust Virtual Try-On Technology Now?
Virtual try-on has the potential to solve for many of the pain points of online shopping at once - addressing the financial, environmental, and brand-loyalty toll of historic numbers of consumers returning ill-fitting garments. Are the conditions finally right for widespread trust and adoption of this technology?
Discussing DPC with Mike Mannering of THREEDEEMEE
THREEDEEMEE’s Co-founder and CCO discusses fashion’s greatest opportunities and hurdles when it comes to DPC, and how the company is creating an ideal future state for digital and physical fashion.
Operationalising DPC At New Balance
Two key figures in New Balance’s digital product creation journey talk tools, assets, and what it means to operationalise DPC.
Discussing DPC with Renate Eder of Vizoo
The COO of Vizoo shares the immediate cost-saving potential of DPC and why it needs to become the mainstream tool for the fashion industry.
Short-Termism, The Sustainable Materials Gap, And AI Licensing Agreements For Brands
Renewcell’s bankruptcy could widen the gap between fashion’s more-sustainable material targets and the reality of supply and demand. And with more licensing agreements between content platforms and AI companies challenging other sectors, brands and retailers are likely to encounter challenges in safeguarding their content from AI's reach over time.
Scaling Digital Creativity: A Bottom-Up Approach To Digital Product Creation
Mirroring a wider mingling of top-down technology deployments and grassroots disruptions, success in DPC will only be secured with the buy-in of a broad spectrum of different teams, job roles, and disciplines.
Material Honesty And Production Volumes: Two New Transparency Frontiers
Fashion keeps critical sustainability indicators close to its chest, creating a lack of clarity around material composition and the scale of (over)production. This must change if the industry is going to meet a rising bar for disclosure and transparency.
Discussing DPC with Saurabh Deshpande of Centric Software
Centric Software’s Vice President, PM & UX Design on the enterprise-wide strategic opportunities opened up by digital product creation.