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Introducing New Designers: Showcasing the Future of Fashion

New Designers is the UK's leading graduate design show, offering a platform for recent graduates to showcase their work to a global audience. Since its inception 39 years ago, New Designers has provided a platform for over 3,000 graduates every year to present their visionary ideas to industry professionals and the public. The show is divided...

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The 5 main messages that the Future of Fashion congress has left us

Valencia, Spain - For the second time in a row, Future of Fashion has become a laboratory of ideas, reflections and conversations around sustainability in fashion. "Can a company be an activist?" "Is it too late to start changing things?" "What can I do as a consumer?" These and many other questions are among those that were thrown around - and...

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How AI-driven Product Data Standardization is Optimizing the Fashion Industry

As fashion retailers gear up for each new season, the time-consuming task of entering or copy-pasting product data often looms large before launching products online. Fortunately, AI technology can handle this repetitive work flawlessly, freeing up human resources for more engaging and creative tasks. Enriching product data can pose significant...

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AlphaTauri Prints Sustainable Knitwear in A Flash With Japanese 3D Machine

Zero Waste is a hot topic, but AlphaTauri is proving that it also produces insanely beautiful fashion with its precision 3D knitting technology. The brand extension of Red Bull has teamed up with Japanese company Shima Seiki to bring their ‘precision printer’ to the European market. In one hour, the machine knits a seamless premium jumper for...

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The Future of Fashion E-Commerce: How Composable Commerce is Driving Innovation

Fashion e-commerce has undergone a significant transformation over the years, with the advent of new technologies and changing consumer behavior. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has only accelerated this shift, as more and more customers have turned to online shopping for their fashion and apparel needs. Customers are looking for convenient,...

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Omnichannel Commerce: 3 Ways to Scale Your Online Sales

With social platforms expanding their capabilities and digital marketplaces gaining popularity, how can new fashion brands take advantage of these changes? You’ve probably heard of omnichannel commerce — which offers customers a connected buying experience across all channels. And a ‘must have’ for retailers on their path to online success,...

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The future of fashion - the consumer is the game changer

If you google the term "Future of Fashion" you get a lot of information about technologies like AR (Augmented Reality), which can project clothes onto your body if you are shopping from home and don't know the fit, for example. And it's not just the systems that are getting smarter. Our clothes are getting smarter too and can even monitor and...

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Mind The Gap: The State of B2B eCommerce Digital Transformation

A new report from NuOrder by Lightspeed, a leading B2B ecommerce platform, found that many organizations implement advanced solutions to help drive wholesale but struggle to standardize and upgrade their processes operationally. Ecommerce has undergone rapid transformation over the past few years. Before COVID-19, many enterprise brands were...

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How to Boost Online Fashion Sales using Buy Now Pay Later

With so many options available for online shopping, offering the right payment options can be exactly what set you apart from the competition. Read on to figure out what Buy Now, Pay Later option is and how it can help bolster your online fashion sales. In 2021, the fashion sector was reported to have the third-highest cart abandonment rate of...

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All eyes on these innovations set to rock the fashion industry

From sustainable outerwear with thermal regulation to using body mapping for a seamless experience, these are some of the latest innovations in textiles set to transform the industry. Here we share a glimpse at how these innovations came about and what impact they may have on fashion production. Biodegradable, functional outdoor apparel Unlike...

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3 Ways How Fashion Brands Can Move Towards a Sustainable and Net-Zero Future

Fast fashion, pollution, carbon emissions, social issues: The fashion industry has a huge impact on our planet on many different levels. According to McKinsey and the Fast Fashion Agenda, the fashion industry was responsible for four percent of global carbon emissions in 2018. But where do these emissions come from? 71 percent of emissions come...

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FIT's 2019 Future of Fashion show

The best work of Fashion Institute of Technology's bachelor of art fashion design are presented in the Future of Fashion awards. The graduating students present their designs every spring in a professional runway show. Watch the video to see 2019's Future of Fashion Show and winners. Source: Video by FIT, YouTube