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Brand New Vision, Digital Fashion Group to establish first ‘digital learning hub’

Two platforms for digital fashion, Brand New Vision (BNV) and The Digital Fashion Group (TDFG) announce a strategic partnership, which sets out to establish the first Digital Learning Hub for digital fashion creation. This hub represents a new Web3 benchmark, and a convergence between education, creativity, and digital fashion. By joining...

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Exclusive: The Digital Fashion Group partners with CLO on scholarship programme

The Digital Fashion Group (TDFG) has announced a new strategic partnership with 3D garment simulation tech provider CLO(thing) Virtual Fashion revolving around the launch of a scholarship programme. The ‘TDFG x CLO Equity Scholarship’ scheme will particularly focus on the African continent in a bid to drive equity and diversity in digital...

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How to create a future proof fashion team for digital transformation

Over the last decade, digital strategy has been largely concerned with digitization, and there has been no real urgency for digital transformation. And in the past two years, companies have had transformation thrust upon them, remodeling their internal and external processes to keep up. A perfect storm caused mainly by the pandemic and GenZ....

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Exclusive: The Digital Fashion Group announces strategic partnership with Arts Thread

Online education provider The Digital Fashion Group (TDFG) has revealed it has entered into a strategic partnership with digital platform Arts Thread, with the duo to pursue a joint ambition of driving digitalisation in fashion education. The collaboration is part of a wider goal to aid in the implementation of digitally-forward courses into...

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The power of data for digital fashion design

As much as we think of fashion as something intuitive, it has always required a great deal of knowledge and information. From the trickle-down and bubble up of fashion trends, to market statistics, and customers sizing details, it is all data which needs to be ethically and fairly processed to adhere to issues concerning privacy. What is the...

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The Digital Fashion Group launches a new series of fashion design courses '3DESIGN'

The Digital Fashion Group is launching a new series of 3D skills courses. '3DESIGN' covers the development of specialised skills in digital fashion design both for phygital and digital-only design in the metaverse. The first course is '3DESIGN: The fundamentals of Digital Fashion Design' and is aimed at fashion creatives who would like to...

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How can digital fashion and technology help brands to be more size-inclusive

Small, Medium, Large or Extra Large? Why does the industry continue to define plural body types in such a small range of sizes? If fashion is about expressing identities, why do we keep being reduced to improbable standards? The issue of sizing in the fashion industry is not a new theme and yet, one could argue, it has not been addressed with...

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How can Digital Fashion Design help us be more sustainable?

What comes to your mind when you think of digital fashion? AR filters? Direct to avatar clothing? Skins for gaming? Digital Fashion is all of this and more and could also help us towards a fairer and more sustainable fashion system. And we are not only talking about the production phase, reducing waste in samples and so on. Sustainable practices...

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The Digital Fashion Group announces three new masterclasses

The Digital Fashion Group has announced three new masterclasses led by professor Merunisha Moonila, beginning 1 March. The masterclasses are live, last three hours and are in the following topics: Digital Fashion and Sustainability: Transformation in Practice, Digital Fashion and Sustainability: Applied Case Studies and Digital Fashion and...

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Fashion design skills: what a designer needs to know to create for the metaverse?

What skills should a designer develop to create for the metaverse? Is traditional fashion design training becoming obsolete? These are just two of the many questions about the role of the designer in virtual environments as digital fashion grows. But these are hardly new thoughts when talking about the future of creative roles. In 1992,...

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Fashion design skills: what a designer needs to know to create for the metaverse?

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The Circular Fashion Summit 2021 focuses on ‘Redesigning Society’

The Circular Fashion Summit (CFS) by Lablaco, an event dedicated to virtual fashion, has presented its 2021 summit in the metaverse, focusing on ‘Redesigning Society’. The concept ’Redesigning Society’ wishes to highlight both the post-pandemic social evolution and the urgency for circularity and digitisation in the fashion industry. The...