Can Digitisation Help Fashion Bridge Its Online And Offline Customer Relationships?
As the lines between online and offline channels continue to blur, digitisation could hold the key to helping the two channels combine rather than compete.
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.