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NEWS: SUSTAINABILITY
Will.i.am’s Sustainable Label Ekocycle Upcycles Using Recycled Materials
Will.i.am is at it again. This is a man on a mission. This time it is all about sustainability. Putting down his wearable hat, for the...
Adidas x Parley: Using Technology to Turn Bad Plastic into Good
We were ecstatic when Bionic Yarn gained further column inches after their collaboration with G Star Raw. Together the partnership launched the RAW for...
TED x Whitehall: “Don’t tell me fashion is frivolous” -Frances Corner
What do you wear if you’re going to meet the Head of London College of Fashion? In this TEDTalks video Professor Frances Corner discusses...
NEWS: SMART FABRICS
5 Fashion Tech Brands That We Predict Will Impact The Fashion Industry In 2017
The fashion tech industry is moving at such a fast pace, that if you blink you will most likely miss the latest innovation to...
Designing for Smart Fabrics: Potential Drawbacks
What are the Potential Drawbacks?
If we can access, visualize and interact with our digital lives with fabric, that brings a whole set of implications...
Artistic Collaboration Sires Rochambeau’s ‘Born Digital’ Connected Jacket
New York based Rochambeau (French for the popular game rock-paper-scissors) has effortlessly given birth to a handsome jacket. Merging their shared passions of art and design,...
NEWS: RETAIL TECH
Farfetch, Taking The Digital Revolution To The Streets of Hackney
We are all about keeping our ear to the ground, and in doing so we heard whispers that the store of the future will...
Does Retail Tech & Fashion Tech Go Hand in Hand?
The Fashion Week season has so far been more about being digital than Fashion Tech. We can count on one hand, maybe two, the...
3D Fashion: 3D Body Scanning Meets Real Apparel World
Yesterday, Fung Global & Retail Tech published a good review of the 3D-scanning companies, whose technology can be used to scan fashion retail customers...
NEWS: WOMEN IN TECH
‘Frankenfashion’ Technology: Alexander McQueen’s DNA Used To Create Leather Goods
With the technology of today quickly becoming the science fiction of yesterday, I wonder, should we be shocked to hear that a collection has been...
Women In Tech, Are You On Ada’s ‘BadAss’ List?
Targeting women committed to changing the tech industry, Ada's List has over 2000+ women who work in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. These brainy...
Madison Maxey, Creatively Taking Smart Fabrics Beyond The LED Dress
FashNerd.com managing editor Mano ten Napel had the pleasure of getting to know Madison Maxey over a cup coffee in Amsterdam. The Brooklyn based smart...
NEWS: R&D
The Future of Transport: Autonomous Cars & Autonomous Flying Cars
Transportation has evolved drastically in the last decade. Autonomous cars, which existed only in science fiction movies, might just be around the corner. With...
Stretchy Smart Skin Circuits That Can Offer Tactile Feedback
A team of Swiss researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) made an interesting breakthrough with developing stretchy circuits that can quadruple in...
This Stretchable ‘Octopus-like’ Skin Senses Touch
A research team of Cornell University graduate students, under the supervision of Rob Shepherd, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have developed a stretchable luminescent...