Lisbon - How are efforts in leveraging blockchain, NFTs, and tokenization enhancing customer experiences, building loyalty, and adapting to changing market trends? It is this question that IWC Schaffhausen has attempted to answer through the ongoing integration of new digitally enhanced initiatives at the company. Speaking at tech conference Web...
Nov 24, 2023
Lisbon - Social and live commerce offers opportunities. That was the message offered by participants in the panel discussion 'Social and live commerce: what will it take to break through in the West?', which took place on November 15 at the technology conference Web Summit. There are two things going on in e-commerce right now, argued Sophie Frè...
Nov 22, 2023
Lisbon - Reflaunt, the resale technology solution used by Altuzarra, Balenciaga and Net-A-Porter among others, will join forces with fashion textile recycling platform SuperCircle. The partnership was officially announced during a stage presentation at Web Summit, the largest tech congress held in Lisbon, on Thursday, by SuperCircle co-founder...
Nov 21, 2023
In what is now the second hoax carried out against Adidas this year, activist collective Yes Man has once again focused its efforts on the German sportswear giant in a bid to draw attention to the rights of garment workers in its supply chain. All the action took place during the tech conference Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, where activists...
Nov 17, 2023
Lisbon - One of the new products that The Fabricant will launch next year will be digital clothing for Zoom. This was revealed by Adriana Hoppenbrouwer, co-founder and chief marketing officer of the digital fashion company on Wednesday at Web Summit, the technology conference taking place in Lisbon this week. Hoppenbrouwer stated that as many as...
PVH is taking a unique approach to implementing disruptive innovation along the fashion value chain that will shape the industry for years to come. In this 2019 WebSummit talk, Anne-Christine Polet (SVP of Digital Ventures at PVH Europe’s corporate startups, Hatch and Stitch) discussed the challenges designers face and the need to modernize the...
Aug 31, 2020
""You have to learn software to create something new, but it gives you a lot more creativity," says Amber Jae Slooten of the digital fashion house The Fabricant about digital design. "You can design anything you want with any material. Maybe you want to make a dress out of water. In the digital world everything is possible, you are no longer...
Dec 4, 2019
Bonnie Takhar, former CEO of Charlotte Olympia, talks about how the idea for its e-commerce platform LetsBab was created ten years ago. LetsBab was launched earlier this year in the UK and the US. Via the app you can recommend your fashion, beauty and lifestyle products to friends and family. You can share a product via sms, e-mail or social...
Dec 2, 2019
Lisbon - Physical retail and online, or physical versus online. According to Annia Spiliopoulos, Global CEO of the British luxury jewellery brand Links of London and Annastasia Seebohm, Group CEO of the British concierge service Quintessentially (a luxury lifestyle management service for its affiliated members), the luxury market is about the...
Nov 20, 2019
Lisbon - "We believe in digitisation. Digital is the new future. It is the new norm. We implement it in all facets of our company, from product innovation in 3D design to artificial influencers," reports Daniel Grieder, CEO Tommy Hilfiger Global & PVH Europe during the internet technology congress Web Summit in Lisbon, where on Thursday the...
Nov 13, 2019
When you design with the end user in mind you have to make sure it is experience driven. Alexander Wang sits down with Isabel Hilton to explore how the company has changed the way they show, design and produce their product and create campaigns that are both socially engaging and experiential. Source: Web Summit, YouTube.
Dec 4, 2018
Featuring Tommy Hilfiger CEO Daniel Grieder, Nadja Swarovski, Jim Lanzone from CBS & Karen Tso from CNBC. Source: Web Summit, YouTube.
