Electric Runway Podcast

As the metaverse takes up more cultural capital than ever before, several upcoming events will explore the implications on the fashion industry. Most prominent among them is Digital Fashion Week New York, a three-day part digital, part physical experience that will include educational seminars, digital screenings, and even an augmented reality art walk. On this week's episode of the Electric Runway podcast, host and Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco speaks with Claire Tattersall, the Founder and Director of Digital Fashion Week New York to find out what makes this event more than just a webinar.

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The global pandemic has disrupted supply chains all over the world and the fashion industry is of course no exception.  Global manufacturing and distribution is a much bigger challenge than ever before. Our guest today is Tricia Hoke, the founder and CEO of Modern Brands. Modern Brands is a membership program for apparel companies that helps streamline the production process using a variety of tools, widgets, and plug-ins that bring the open-source mentality of the internet to fashion design. 

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Virtual fashion, NFTs, and crypto clothing have all become hot topics during the pandemic, with brands such as Dolce and Gabbana, Gucci, and Karl Lagerfeld stepping into the space. But how will digital clothing impact the way we present ourselves online? Just as face filters have transformed the way we (especially women) see ourselves, so too will digital fashion. 

In episode 130 of the Electric Runway podcast, fashion futurist Amanda Cosco continues her exploration of virtual dressing and digital fashion with Emily Rosa Shahaj, the co-founder and CEO of Gravity The Studio. Gravity the Studio is a virtual fashion house designing 3D clothes for digitized identities. Emily's research focuses on expanding cross-platform interoperability of digital assets using blockchain technology and open-source formats, improving real-time virtual fit techniques, and framing the implications of technologically-mediated human interactions.

This episode touches on fashion's long-standing relationship with gaming, virtual dressing as a pandemic trend, and the new frontiers of augmented reality and artificial intelligence for digital fashion. 

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Virtual showrooms- 3D clickable, user-centric branded spaces—were once a nice-to-have, a way of testing out futuristic experiences in a way that complements a company’s physical retail footprint. But with the ongoing pandemic, virtual showrooms are becoming a meaningful way of extending the customer experience, especially ahead of the holiday season. 

In episode 129, Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco speaks with Sean Newmarch, the Global eCommerce Director at the household appliances technology company, Dyson. Recently, Amanda had the opportunity to step into one of Dyson’s virtual showrooms using the Oculus Quest to find out first-hand how the company is leveraging technology to increase engagement and conversion beyond just the holidays. 

At the beginning of December of this year, I'm attending my first conference since Covid, but I won't be leaving the comfort of my couch. I'll be strapping on an Oculus Quest 2—a virtual reality headset produced by Facebook— to attend one of the first fashion metaverses. Inside, my avatar will brush digital elbows with Vogue editors and network with other fashion professionals; I'll explore exhibition booths and attend workshops and panels led by some of the industry's most innovative thinkers and changemakers.

The Circular Fashion Summit is an annual event produced by lablaco. While the conference was scheduled to take place earlier this year, supply chain disruptions caused shortages in headsets, which is the main gateway to the event in this case. CFS will now move forward on the 9th thru the 12th of December, 2021.

In episode 128 of the Electric Runway podcast, I speak with Paula Vega, Founding Member and Global Partnerships Manager at Circular Fashion Summit. Our conversation touches on everything from the opportunities of social VR to the importance of diversity in the metaverse. She also shares how the summit is walking the talk when it comes to activating a more circular fashion industry through partnerships like their recent pilot with H&M.

Get ready for the Metaverse. No literally, get ready. Like, what are you going to wear? The reality of virtual fashion is here, and we’re not just talking skins in gaming. Whether it’s choosing a Snapchat filter for your Zoom meeting or deciding what to wear to the digital Met Gala, dressing our digital selves is an increasingly important part of everyday life. 

My guest today is Kerry Murphy. Kerry is the founder of the Fabricant, a fashion house that produces only digital and never physical clothing. He’s here to take us through the digital fashion space and the rise of digital-only fashion. We’ll also cover NFTs as well as digital collectables and how they relate to the fashion industry.

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Consumers and the fashion industry alike are realizing that sustainability is more than just a buzzword—it needs to be a way of life and a way of business.  Our guest today is a sustainability advocate and an internationally recognized leader in social impact. On Instagram, he’s known as "The Swap King" where he encourages a new generation of fashionistas to trade clothes rather than purchasing new ones. Patrick Duffy is the founder of The Global Fashion Exchange as well as the global partnerships manager for Common Objective, an intelligent business network for the fashion industry.  In this conversation with Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco, he speaks about sustainability beyond the buzzwords and how to be a conscious consumer. 

Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about digital fashion. Whether we’re talking about augmented reality try-on in Snapchat or digital clothing that’s created and sold as art objects and minted as NFTs (that’s non-fungible tokens), the fashion industry is looking more pixellated than ever before. 

While the pandemic has caused us to find new use-cases for digital fashion, the truth is that the design process has been digitizing for years. In this episode, Fashion Futurist Amanda Cosco speaks with Avihay Feld and Osnat Lidor, Browzwear's CEO and VP of Marketing respectively. Browzwear is the leading provider of 3D fashion software that offers solutions for design, development, and merchandising. Since 1999, Browzwear has been driving digital transformation in the apparel industry through the power of true-to-life 3D prototypes that make it easy for everyone involved in the creation and production of garments to collaborate, iterate, and get items to market faster than ever before. 

It's 2020, and if you're an online retailer not already thinking about the implications of artificial intelligence on your business then allow today’s episode to provoke your consideration: Our guest today is Ashwini Asokan, the CEO and founder of Vue.Ai, a US/India-based startup that has developed an AI platform to help online retailers increase sales and work more efficiently. They do this by automating simple yet important tasks such as product tagging and personalized recommendations. Vue.AI also help fashion brands leverage artificial intelligence to generate images of models in clothes and provide personal style recommendations to customers while shopping online. It’s a robust offering in a market that’s used to doing things the old fashioned way, which may explain why Vue.AI has secured $17 million in venture capital funding. We’ll talk about how a fashion startup managed to get the attention of Silicon Valley, as well as the limitations of AI for online retailers.

It's 2020, and if you're an online retailer not already thinking about the
implications of artificial intelligence on your business then allow today’s episode to provoke your consideration: Our guest today is Ashwini Asokan, the CEO and founder of Vue.Ai, a US/India-based startup that has developed an AI platform to help online retailers increase sales and work more efficiently. They do this by automating simple yet important tasks such as product tagging and personalized recommendations. 

Vue.AI also help fashion brands leverage artificial intelligence to generate images of models in clothes and provide personal style recommendations to customers while shopping online. It’s a robust offering in a market that’s used to doing things the old fashioned way, which may explain why Vue.AI has secured $17 million in venture capital funding. We’ll talk about how a fashion startup managed to get the attention of Silicon Valley, as well as the limitations of AI for online retailers.