Data & Demand: Fuelling The Factory Of The Future
Fashion is facing change on a grander scale than anything in living memory. Now is its chance to move from the traditional supply model to a true demand chain.
Sampling: Is All-Digital A Step Too Far?
3D can eliminate many samples, but delays still occur when the time comes to make a physical sample. Digital thread dyeing offers a solution.
Fashion Is Overdue For A New Model Of Production
With our 3D focus over, we look at why an analogue gap exists between the output of design and the output of manufacturing. And we introduce our two-month deep-dive on how that gap can be bridged.
Facing Worlds, Part 2: Collaborations In The Time of COVID-19
Animal Crossing has captured the attention of fashion brands, professionals, and gamers. Can that lightning-in-a-bottle success be turned into a successful marketing and sales channel?
Going 3D, Part 5: Making It Real
The end of our examination of all things 3D, this summary sets out some practical steps you can take to realise your 3D ambitions.
Facing Worlds: Understanding The Fashion / Gaming Crossover Channel
Videogames offer a compelling crossover marketing channel for movies and music. Now fashion is taking tentative footsteps into the same space. This primer explains why.
Overcoming The Crisis With A 3D-Centred Strategy
The Embodee team talks about overcoming the skills gap, the technology gap, and the content gap - all of which stand between brands and a 3D-centric future.
Getting Over Your Fear of Going Digital
virtuality.fashion looks at the balance between 3DaaS and in-house 3D implementations, tackling some of the most common fears brands and retailers have of going digital.
The Challenges of 3D Implementation
The basis for a clean and lean 3D process are the proper assets, the right tools and a good infrastructure to connect it all. Vizoo explains how.
Going 3D, Part 4: Avatars & Virtual Twins
3D body scanning and body data platforms create the opportunity to use virtual twins of people as well as products.
Interline Identities: Tom Broughton, CEO, Cubitts
London-born spectacle brand Cubitts has a bold vision for the future - where 3D, machine learning, and connected cutting machines mean every frame can be made to measure. But first they need to overcome COVID-19. We talk with CEO Tom Broughton about how.
The Rise of the Conscious Consumer and the new Creative
How technologies like 3D could usher in a new era of creativity and conscientious creation, preparing fashion for the next normal.
Interline Identities: Peter Leferink, Amsterdam Fashion Institute
We speak to Peter Leferink, of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, about the need for not just a new model for fashion, but a new type of fashion professional.
Going 3D, Part 3: How Fashion Fits
We examine the history of sizing surveys, and look forward to a future where fit can be personalised through technology.