Why the Fashion Industry Should Tighten its Belt on Cybersecurity
With every step towards end-to-end digitisation comes greater exposure to cybercrime. Is fashion taking the threat seriously enough?
The Complex Calculus Of Forging Past Fast Fashion
The fashion industry is about to cross a new Rubicon of choice and convenience. But that opportunity is also dragging a complicated, damaging legacy with it.
Supply Chain Transparency – An Opportunity Or A Threat?
Fashion has set a mandate for transparency. But where brands see hidden information waiting to be uncovered, suppliers might see open doors through which their intellectual property could escape. Is there a way forward that works for both parties?
Blockchain In Fashion: Is It Ready?
With the existing structural problems in the supply chain infrastructure illuminated, we need to be asking, "How can we make blockchain work for us?"
Redefining Risk While History Is Being Rewritten
With another historic tragedy underway, fashion will be looking to reduce risk and rearchitect its supply chains and operating models.
Between Two Web3 Extremes, Fashion Must Find A Middle, And Fast
The next age of the web is currently torn between technology-first and content-first approaches, with both extremes potentially facing a backlash. The time has come to identify a middle ground.
Predictions For 2022: Supply Chain Management, Accountability, & Returns
A new retail landscape is emerging and, if the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that our challenges are equal parts complex, intertwined, and urgent.
Intelligent Retail: Fashion’s New Baseline
Change - from the small-scale to the sweeping - will be a prominent force in fashion's near and mid-term future, creating an even stronger need for brands to have supreme confidence in what they bring to market and how they sell it.
Fashion Technology In 2022: The Big Asks
The broad trends that are set to shape the next year are visible. The practicalities could pose more of a problem...
2021, The Year Of Fashion NFTs
This has been the year of NFT fever. But what are NFTs, why is everyone rushing to cash in, and what do they mean for an industry that has remained resolutely physical for so long?
Made-To-Order: The Solution To Fashion’s Sustainability Problem
The pandemic has exacerbated fashion's existential crisis: it's an industry that makes far more clothing than it can sell. With margins being squeezed more than ever, does made-to-order production offer a way out?
Inclusivity Is Essential. Are We Failing To Teach AI To Recognise It?
As fashion hands off more decisions and automates more experiences using AI, bias is becoming ingrained. But the industry has a chance to fix it - and support inclusivity - if it acts now.
Retooling: The Push & Pull of Tradition vs. Digitisation
Like any new technology, digital product creation steps into existing creative tensions it can ease, but can potentially introduce its own.
Six Trends In Fashion Tech for 2021
Dakota Murphey explores some possible trends in fashion technology for this year. Dakota has more than a decade of experience in business growth, working independently as a business consultant for a number of years.