The Future of Fashion Is New End-To-End “Brand Operating System” Platforms
Creating and running a fashion brand is starting to look as simple as creating and running a social media account… tap to design, tap to price, tap to finance, tap to market, tap to make, tap to retarget. A new wave of...
AI-Powered Personalisation and Immersive Technologies, Are You Ready For The Flight of the Future?
If you are looking for somewhere to go this summer, make sure you pencil the BA 2119: FLIGHT OF THE FUTURE exhibition. Presented by British Airways, a leader in Aviation Technology, the exhibition shows how the future of air travel could include hyper-personalisation,...
Sustainability in Retail: What Sustainable Initiatives Do You Think Consumers Value?
Currently, we are witnessing fashion brands, and retailers vying to become sustainable. The main reason for this change is the ever-evolving conscious consumer. To successfully engage them brands and retailers need to understand what sustainable initiatives are important to their current and...
Lost in Confrontation: Is AI the End of Social and Emotional Intelligence?
The name of the dystopian series, Black Mirror, refers to our lifeless handheld devices reflecting ourselves back at us once switched off. Challenging us to face our true selves after polishing our digital one. It opens up the question of what technology...
How to Implement Artificial Intelligence in Fashion Retail
Defined as a technology that has the ability of computers or machines to perform tasks that are typically human, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that is developing rapidly. As it continues to advance, now is the perfect time for fashion brands...
Why FashionTech fails? Part I: Legacy
For the last 10 years, we've been watching the leaps and dives of the Fashion Tech industry primarily through the lens of retail projects, and some of them really did become unicorns: e-commerce is experiencing a boom, there are flash sales all...
Banks are Becoming Fashion Tech Ambassadors as Payment Wearables Popularity Surges
Imagine leaving your bank card at home, purposely. How would you pay for a cup of coffee, transportation, or dinner with friends? Well, thanks to advancing payment technology it is now possible to pay your bill with something unassuming like a keyring,...
Crowdfunding Platforms, It’s Time For An Upgrade, Stat
Do any of you remember Ear-O-Smart? Their campaign hit the headlines back in 2016 and was covered by the likes of Forbes.com, CBC News, Wareable and the BBC. Ear-O-Smart got the kind of attention that ensured that their crowdfunding campaign got...
How Is Augmented Reality Transforming the Fashion Industry?
Although I would not describe the fashion industry as early adopters of technology, it does seem that technological innovation has still managed to take hold of the $2.4 trillion industry. Promising to revolutionise the entire business of fashion, there is one...
Wearables & The Importance of Technological Disruption in the Medical Field
As the wearable technology ecosystem advances, we are headed towards a future where we will be able to choose whether to have a device in our hand or an implant in our brain. It is a destiny recognised for its possibilities by...