Calling in from Copenhagen! We share our impressions and lessons from the first couple of days at Copenhagen Fashion Week, and what we expect from the last day. On today’s show:

• The great turn-out at our live talks at CIFF
• Highlights from the shows, including Alpha, PLN, and Zalando Sustainability Awards.
• Impressions from buyers and brands, such as Bruce Pask, men’s fashion director at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman
• Plus an interview with Sofie Dolva, director at CIFF, on the recent merger with Revolver

This is season 5, episode 4 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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Today we are looking at some specific projects and phenomena that will, and are already, affecting fashion, design, art, and more. Talking points are:

• How AI can help with focus, relaxation and creativity.
• How a new generation of AI-designers is upending fashion
• How we are using AI to produce our next issue of Scandinavian MIND.
• Can an AI run an entire fashion business?

This is season 5, episode 3 of our weekly podcast show on how technology is transforming the creative industries.

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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We share a ground report from our visits to Pitti Uomo in Florence and Berlin Fashion Week. In the episode we talk about:

• The Nordic brands making a mark in Florence.
• Italian tradition versus German innovation.
• How AR and VR can be a tool for Upcycling.
• What we learned from the German company Yoona’s fashion-tech conference.
• How fashion activists took over fashion week – and fooled Adidas.

With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor, and Oliver Dahle, Editor-At-Large, Fashion.

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We’re finally back! We’re happy to kick off season 5 with special guest Charlotte Sundåker, CEO and co-founder of Planethon, a futures and transformation agency offering a data-driven, science-based platform and business design process framework that enable sustainable investments, transformation initiatives and partnerships. We talk about:

• Why companies and organisations need to learn to think more about their future
• The importance of storytelling to create future scenarios
• How future thinking can affect how we deal with our problems today

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In this episode of KONST, our host Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar talks with LA-based Swedish art dealer Carl Larsson about how to do art business. Larsson is not only an acclaimed art advisor running one of the most inspiring art accounts on Instagram The Art Reporter — but he's also a very nice and humble guy. Talking points are:

• Running an art dealership for three generations.
• Helping Tim ”Avicii” Bergling build his art collection.
• The difference between Scandinavian and international collectors.
• How to build a presence on social media.
• A roundup of our favourite art events in 2022, and what we're looking forward to in 2023.

KONST is a show by Scandinavian MIND about contemporary and future art; the interconnection with society, culture, technology, finance and lifestyle. The outlook is primarily at the art world from a Scandinavian perspective, although taking into account the global arena of artists, exhibitions, trade fairs and other current events. The host of KONST is Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-large at Scandinavian MIND.

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For the season finale, we invite Lisa Lang, Director of EU Affairs & Policy at Climate-KIC, to have a long and in-depth conversation on how looming EU legislation will force the fashion industry to change. Talking points are:

• New rules for transparency and traceability
• The problem with overproduction
• The role of a fashion designer in the years to come
• And the potential of fashion in gaming and the metaverse

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. This time we sat down with Tomek Rygalik, founder of Studio Rygalik and Design Nature and professor at Aalto University’s architecture department, as well as Petteri Masalin, the Chief Design Officer at Fiskars Group.

Together they discuss:

• The importance of values in design.
• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

This podcast is produced in collaboration with Polestar. 

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Today we unwrap the recent social media craze on artificial intelligence text tool ChatGPT, and invite the creative director and founder of AI community RealDreams to get an early adopter’s views. We discuss:

• How ChatGPT can help with creativity and writer’s block.
• The current flaws and worries with the tool.
• Examples of video and image AI tools Justin uses as a filmmaker.

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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Today we are revisiting a panel talk that we hosted together with Polestar in Helsinki, Finland a few weeks ago. At Polestar’s Helsinki-based showroom we hosted a panel conversation with Laura Juslin, fashion designer and founder of Juslin Maunula and Tej Chauhan, a London-born industrial designer working in his own Helsinki studio. Together they discuss :

• What responsibilities do they have as designers with regard to sustainability?
• How fashion and architecture can merge into one design experience.
• The need for emotive design.
• Their advice to young designers entering the business.

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Today we take a look at the ongoing launch of Nike’s new NFT platform .Swoosh and what it means for the future of digital fashion. We talk about:

• Why NFTs seem to thrive when crypto doesn’t.
• Are legacy brands the way forward for digital assets?
• The role of community in the digital fashion space.
• Instagram’s new NFT platform and other examples.

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With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor.

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