Bottega Veneta Gone 404: The Challenge of Maintaining Exclusivity And Still Being Relatable
Who's missing from social media in 2021? Expensive and exclusive Italian label Bottega Veneta, that's who. Bottega Veneta, a heritage brand based in Milan, Italy, has gone "404" on us with absolutely no warning. The luxury fashion house has decided to blackout...
2020 Favorites: The Year’s Best Fashion Tech Stories According to The Readers
2020 will be remembered as the year that the majority of us retreated indoors and spent even more time online. For us, 2020 might have made the fashion industry vulnerable and unsure, but it also forced it to rethink how it does business....
2020, A Year Like No Other, Has Made Fashion Fluent in Accountability & Responsibility
It is hard to believe that 2020 has a silver lining, but it does. Yes, we have been vulnerable and unsure, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The fact that COVID-19 has forced the fashion industry to rethink how it...
It’s Time for Fashion to Invest In New Ways Consumers Can “Own” Wardrobe-Essentials
I believe that the '20s has the potential to become the decade known for game-changing retail innovation. Technologically, the jump is already proving to be having a huge influence in some parts of the industry, like retail and manufacturing. So hold...
Daria Shapovalova: “The Next Fast Fashion is Digital Fashion.”
Changing the notion of fast fashion, DressX "Don't shop less, shop digital fashion" has been taking the fashion industry by storm. Already applauded in rags like Vice, Vogue Italia, Forbes US and Nylon Magazine, DressX founders Daria Shapovalova and Natalia Modenova have...
How Can The Fashion Industry Build a More Sustainable Future? Experts weigh in.
It was through Fredrik Timour, founder of Fashion Innovation Center, that I had the privilege of meeting Konrad Olsson, editor of Scandinavian MIND. He was the one who introduced me to the Transformation Conference, an event, in collaboration with Nordic Talks, that...
Deep Science x High Design: Bolt Threads Joins Forces With Iconic Fashion Brands
This week a highly unique and creative collaborative partnership was been announced. Headed by a biotechnology company, Bolt Threads, the collaboration, is made up of partners who recognize fashion's race to develop sustainable solutions. The first-of-its-kind, the creative, collaborative partnership, made up of adidas, Kering, lululemon...
Devastating the Environment and Posing Health Hazards to Humans, Are You Still Dyeing To Belong?
Recently CNN wrote a shocking article on Asian rivers. The report investigated how our colourful closets are to blame for the rivers in Asia turning black. The story, which was produced as part of CNN Style's The September Issues, looked at how textile...
Call To Action: Ready to Reformat the Fashion System’s Culture of Consumption & Destruction?
An open letter demanding action has been released. Delivered in video format, it includes quotes from fashion game-changers like Stella McCartney, Virgil Abloh and Alessandro Michele. Marking the launch of a new campaign by Extinction Rebellion called Fashion Act Now, the letter is...