American Fashion Podcast — exploring innovation and sustainability across the industry

Taking Liberty. Manufacture New York moves its headquarters into the (cavernous and echoing) facility where it will eventually build a massive 160,000 square foot manufacturing innovation center. The gang discusses why collaborative factories make sense for small and medium-sized fashion brands, the dangers of taking venture capital and relying on apps and services from startup companies that could close or change in an afternoon, and a Made In USA web site where t-shirt graphics are crowd-sourced from one of the strangest communities on the Internet.

references:

* The Fashion Law: Forever 21 Sues Other Brands for Copying

* OS Fashion: A Revolution Paused

* Fast Company: Inside The Fashion Incubator That’s Hacking Global Manufacturing

* Aral Balkan: Ello isn't as indie as you might think it is.

* Archive.org: The Wayback Machine

* 4chan makes t-shirts: thatshirtwascash.com

Taking Liberty. Manufacture New York moves its headquarters into the (cavernous and echoing) facility where it will eventually build a massive 160,000 square foot manufacturing innovation center. The gang discusses why collaborative factories make sense for small and medium-sized fashion brands, the dangers of taking venture capital and relying on apps and services from startup companies that could close or change in an afternoon, and a Made In USA web site where t-shirt graphics are crowd-sourced from one of the strangest communities on the Internet.

references:

* The Fashion Law: Forever 21 Sues Other Brands for Copying

* OS Fashion: A Revolution Paused

* Fast Company: Inside The Fashion Incubator That’s Hacking Global Manufacturing

* Aral Balkan: Ello isn’t as indie as you might think it is.

* Archive.org: The Wayback Machine

* 4chan makes t-shirts: thatshirtwascash.com

Chindōgu Internet of Things. Charles and Lisa attended Swissnex Boston's Zero Power Smart Fashion conference recently, heard a lot about the "Internet of Things," and met this episode's guest Christopher Grayson, who announced his new product, the Smart Jewel, at the Swissnex event near the end of the most recent New York Fashion Week. Joining the discussion this week, Manufacture New York chief strategy officer (and technology enthusiast), Rob Sanchez. Topics discussed cover everything from the usefulness of 3D body scanning technology for custom fit clothing, to issues with consumers pre-funding designs.

references:

* Christopher Grayson / Smart Jewel

* Kopin Corportation

* Swissnex Boston

* Alexandre Plokhov

* Rob Sanchez speaking at MakerCon

* Zombies, Run! iPhone app

* Man-Computer Symbiosis, by J. C. R. Licklider

* Peter Dundas

* Condor Boutique

* How To Care For Your Fashion Rabbit

* The Last Weekend

* Ambika

Chindōgu Internet of Things. Charles and Lisa attended Swissnex Boston's Zero Power Smart Fashion conference recently, heard a lot about the "Internet of Things," and met this episode's guest Christopher Grayson, who announced his new product, the Smart Jewel, at the Swissnex event near the end of the most recent New York Fashion Week. Joining the discussion this week, Manufacture New York chief strategy officer (and technology enthusiast), Rob Sanchez. Topics discussed cover everything from the usefulness of 3D body scanning technology for custom fit clothing, to issues with consumers pre-funding designs.

references:

* Christopher Grayson / Smart Jewel

* Kopin Corportation

* Swissnex Boston

* Alexandre Plokhov

* Rob Sanchez speaking at MakerCon

* Zombies, Run! iPhone app

* Man-Computer Symbiosis, by J. C. R. Licklider

* Peter Dundas

* Condor Boutique

* How To Care For Your Fashion Rabbit

* The Last Weekend

* Ambika

Chindōgu Internet of Things. Charles and Lisa attended Swissnex Boston’s Zero Power Smart Fashion conference recently, heard a lot about the “Internet of Things,” and met this episode’s guest Christopher Grayson, who announced his new product, the Smart Jewel, at the Swissnex event near the end of the most recent New York Fashion Week. Joining the discussion this week, Manufacture New York chief strategy officer (and technology enthusiast), Rob Sanchez. Topics discussed cover everything from the usefulness of 3D body scanning technology for custom fit clothing, to issues with consumers pre-funding designs.

references:

* Christopher Grayson / Smart Jewel

* Kopin Corportation

* Swissnex Boston

* Alexandre Plokhov

* Rob Sanchez speaking at MakerCon

* Zombies, Run! iPhone app

* Man-Computer Symbiosis, by J. C. R. Licklider

* Peter Dundas

* Condor Boutique

* How To Care For Your Fashion Rabbit

* The Last Weekend

* Ambika

The right way to runway. Udor, veteran runway photographer, joins us to talk about New York Fashion Week. Charles hits the trade shows for Market Week and comes back with lots of new Made in USA brand names to talk about. Gretchen Harnick from Parsons talks about the online fashion education community she just launched. Charles and Udor talk about what should and should not happen on the runway. Lisa's Ralph Rucci show review transports us to a poetic realm.

references:

* Udor Photography

* Modu

* Slow Factory

* Paola Hernandez

* Holographic Universe

* Cade

* Related

* LACAUSA

* Svilu

* Zero Gravity

* Second Clothing

* Donni Charm

* Kora Rae

* Benjamin Jay

* Abacaxi

* Meskita

* JNBY

* Loris Diran

* Pattern To Plan

* Freestyle Fashion Conference Kickstarter

* Suzy Menkes also likes Ralph Rucci (hit the little UK flag for the English version)

photos by Charles Beckwith and Udor Photography

 

The right way to runway. Udor, veteran runway photographer, joins us to talk about New York Fashion Week. Charles hits the trade shows for Market Week and comes back with lots of new Made in USA brand names to talk about. Gretchen Harnick from Parsons talks about the online fashion education community she just launched. Charles and Udor talk about what should and should not happen on the runway. Lisa's Ralph Rucci show review transports us to a poetic realm.

references:

* Udor Photography

* Modu

* Slow Factory

* Paola Hernandez

* Holographic Universe

* Cade

* Related

* LACAUSA

* Svilu

* Zero Gravity

* Second Clothing

* Donni Charm

* Kora Rae

* Benjamin Jay

* Abacaxi

* Meskita

* JNBY

* Loris Diran

* Pattern To Plan

* Freestyle Fashion Conference Kickstarter

* Suzy Menkes also likes Ralph Rucci (hit the little UK flag for the English version)

photos by Charles Beckwith and Udor Photography

 

The right way to runway. Udor, veteran runway photographer, joins us to talk about New York Fashion Week. Charles hits the trade shows for Market Week and comes back with lots of new Made in USA brand names to talk about. Gretchen Harnick from Parsons talks about the online fashion education community she just launched. Charles and Udor talk about what should and should not happen on the runway. Lisa’s Ralph Rucci show review transports us to a poetic realm.

references:

* Udor Photography

* Modu

* Slow Factory

* Paola Hernandez

* Holographic Universe

* Cade

* Related

* LACAUSA

* Svilu

* Zero Gravity

* Second Clothing

* Donni Charm

* Kora Rae

* Benjamin Jay

* Abacaxi

* Meskita

* JNBY

* Loris Diran

* Pattern To Plan

* Freestyle Fashion Conference Kickstarter

* Suzy Menkes also likes Ralph Rucci (hit the little UK flag for the English version)

photos by Charles Beckwith and Udor Photography

 

So many shiny things! -- Huddled just out of the rain, looking out at the Hudson from Chelsea Piers between shows, Seth, Charles, and Lisa do a rundown of all the New York Fashion Week shows they've seen since the last episode. There are many. Between talk of the new collections, lots of information about how it all fits together in a business and marketing perspective. Backstage interviews with Karolyn Pho and Katya Leonovich.

photos by Charles Beckwith

BADGLEY MISCHKA

more photos below

references:

* Karolyn Pho

* Heart and Noble

* Monique Lhuillier

* Harare

* Alexander Wang

* Prabal Gurang

* Katya Leonovich

* Natalya Egorova

* Alexandra Lin

* NAMM New York

* Vivienne Tam

* Nanette Lepore

* Reem Acra

* Badgley Mischka

So many shiny things! -- Huddled just out of the rain, looking out at the Hudson from Chelsea Piers between shows, Seth, Charles, and Lisa do a rundown of all the New York Fashion Week shows they've seen since the last episode. There are many. Between talk of the new collections, lots of information about how it all fits together in a business and marketing perspective. Backstage interviews with Karolyn Pho and Katya Leonovich.

photos by Charles Beckwith

BADGLEY MISCHKA

more photos below

references:

* Karolyn Pho

* Heart and Noble

* Monique Lhuillier

* Harare

* Alexander Wang

* Prabal Gurang

* Katya Leonovich

* Natalya Egorova

* Alexandra Lin

* NAMM New York

* Vivienne Tam

* Nanette Lepore

* Reem Acra

* Badgley Mischka