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Fashion’s future relies on re-evaluating old patterns

The fashion industry is characterized by always looking ahead to the future, predicting trends and anticipating the needs and desires of consumers. And while the industry has always been responsive - producing more goods in ever shorter timeframes to meet demand and pivoting to online and omnichannel sales to meet consumers where they are – the...

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Retailers New Look and Next to pilot new supply chain platform

The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) is working with technology companies IBM, Tech Data, and the Future Fashion Factory to design, prototype and pilot a new technology platform to help the fashion and textile industry drive sustainability and profitability through increased transparency within the supply chain. The Sustainable Supply...

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Sustainability – a "must -do" for the fashion industry

The days when it was enough to have models walking on a catwalk made of moss to demonstrate sustainability and environmental awareness are definitely over. Such staging guarantees beautiful pictures, but consumers demand more. Generation Z openly rejects what is ideologically questionable and more and more representatives of the other...

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Tech giants vow to double number of women managers by 2022

Forty-five tech giants committed Wednesday to doubling the number of women on their management boards to 30 percent by 2022, the French presidency said. Alibaba, BNP Paribas, Booking.com, IBM, L'Oreal and Uber were some of the high-profile companies to sign a pledge at the second "Tech for good" summit taking place in Paris. Businesses that...

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Fashion Institute of Technology and IBM collaborate to nurture creative workforce

The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has announced a collaboration with technology giant IBM to spur industry transformation with the aim to build a creative fashion workforce of the future. FIT, which is part of the State University of New York, will leverage IBM's AI for fashion capabilities via a suite of application programming...

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Yoox Net-a-Porter Group and IBM form "game-changing alliance"

London - Yoox- Net-a-Porter (YNAP), online luxury fashion retailer has joined forces with technological firm IBM to form a long-term strategic partnership which aims to enhance YNAP platform, share technology and develop a new think-tank. The new partnership aims to focus on enhancing YNAP omni-channel capabilities, built around customer-centric...