How a Hong Kong-based digital consultancy for the denim industry and an Australian startup,founded by ex-Canon image scientists are radically changing the world of denim fabric digitisation. Read on to learn more. In less than a year, technology adoption for digital or digitally-enabled garment design has taken a quantum leap within the fashion...
May 18, 2021
Not only the fashion industry has been dependent on the changes brought about by the pandemic for the past year. Fashion students have also been affected, bouncing back and forth between ‘homeschooling’ and hybrid teaching - depending on current federal and state corona regulations. In Germany, Sabine Resch, Dean of Studies for “Fashion...
Mar 22, 2021
The future of manufacturing is digital and fully automated: In September 2020, the foundation stone was laid of the new, fully automated shoe factory 4.0 of Salomon, Millet and Babolat in France. In Ardoix, France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the first fully automated shoe with digitally controlled, intelligent production is being built....
Jan 22, 2021
Pronovias Group, the global leader in the luxury bridal sector, continues to drive digital transformation. Since it launched virtual appointments in early April 2020, 18,000 brides-to-be across the world have engaged. This represents an increase of 810%. Just one week after Pronovias introduced the service, 2,500 customers demonstrated an...
Aug 11, 2020
As Director of Strategic Partnerships within Google's Advanced Tech department, Barry McGeough knows what he's talking about when it comes to new technology. We spent some time discussing the myriad of technologies that are coming over the next few years and how this will shape the landscape for retail, footwear, and apparel in the future....
Jun 10, 2020
The Innovate Textile & Apparel Europe conference returned to Amsterdam in October, bringing delegates together from across textile market to listen and share ideas on the industry’s future. Collaboration, mass personalisation and standardisation were key themes at this year’s Innovate Textile & Apparel (ITA) conference, which ran on 15-17...
Oct 24, 2019
With a little help from algorithms and artificial intelligence, accessible and affordable tailored clothing might soon become a reality. Swedish fast fashion retailer H&M and Berlin-based start-up ZyseMe have partnered up to test an offering for tailor-made clothing online. The new Just.Perfect project, which has been trialled exclusively in...
Apr 15, 2019
Fashion experts and educators met in November to discuss how sector trends could impact professions and training programs from design to production. Professions in the fashion world are shifting as companies move towards industry 4.0, adopt 3D technologies and rationalize the product life-cycle management for their collections, according to a...
Dec 6, 2017