Venturing into Fashion Tech

Grappling Business as a Fashion Designer?
As a creative, focusing on business issues can be daunting. This is how our guest speaker, Beatrice Newman, felt when her father urged her to take a business course after getting her degree in fashion design. However, she quickly learned that business and fashion are intertwined and gaining business skills as a designer can make or break a brand. Using her love for heritage techniques and crochet, she has successfully built her brand Korlekie to what it is today, being featured in numerous publications and dressing some of the biggest celebs in the world. 

Educating Future Fashion Entrepreneurs
But she still had an itch to make a contribution to the fashion industry in a different way. Having grown in both business and fashion, she saw the vision of a course designed by a creative for creatives that took all of the things she learned from both school and entrepreneurship. In this episode we will take an in depth look at the things Beatrice has learned in her 10 plus years of entrepreneurship, and how that has helped her build her second venture, MODE, an online education platform.

To learn more about MODE & sign up for your first course visit the MODE website.
Get in contact with Beatrice: https://www.linkedin.com/in/korlekie

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Deciding When To Leave Your Regular Job & Start Your Own Venture
How do you know when the right time to leave is? Arie Katz has had to ask himself that question multiple times along his entrepreneurial journey. From making the decision to leave one start up to begin his own, to deciding when to part ways with multiple founders, his journey has been full of questions and taking risks to answer them. In this episode, we sit down with Arie and break down these tough decisions he’s made and how exactly he came to the conclusions that led him to continue towards developing his business, RoundRack. 

Pushing Through & Developing Round Rack
Arie's journey is a testament to resilience and adaptability. Especially when your co-founding partners are not the people that you thought would be able to get the startup to the next stage. Arie unravels tough decisions that have forced him to pivot, realign, and evolve his business strategy, including parting ways with this co-founding team. Although now a solopreneur, Arie gives insights as to how he's making an impact with RoundRack, next generation materials, and sustainable fashion. 

To learn more and get in touch with RoundRack visit their website.
Connect with Arie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariekatz

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Experimenting with Artificial Intelligence from an Early Age
At just 16 years old Yigit Alp Emas was already experimenting and harnessing the power of AI technology, winning technical competitions pitched against competitors twice his age. But there was something missing: a purpose. He saw opportunities to make real changes to the world and decided to find solutions to problems. At the heart of his motivation lies a personal connection—the sight of his mother's struggles within the fashion industry and the sting of a failed business.

AI: The Future of Trend Forecasting
Fast forward, Yigit is applying his AI skills to fashion trend forecasting and generative design. He's showing brands how they can use T-Fashion technology to predict upcoming trends and base their product releases using objective insights and data. By doing so brands can reduce waste, gain time, and overall improve how they are delivering the right product at the right time to their customers.  In this episode Yigit takes us through how he's create the AI magic and what it will do for the future of fashion.

Visit the T-Fashion Website to learn more about this platform.
Connect with Yigit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yigitalp

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

How do you seduce fashion's mega brands to work with you? In this episode Juan Carlos Martinez takes us on a journey on he's managed to do just that.

Leaving Familiarity Behind for Entrepreneurship
From dentistry school to fashion school [to the dismay of his father], Juan has taken risk after risk to follow his dreams of changing the fashion industry. Landing his dream job, he proved to himself, and his father, that he had a place in the fashion world, but that wasn’t enough. Juan saw a future in digital fashion and the power it could hold for designers and brands, and so he took another risk by quitting his day job and starting his own venture to bring digital fashion to the forefront of fashion. 

Digital Fashion, Generative Design, and Fashion's Mega Brands
In 2015 nobody took Juan or digital fashion seriously, but little did they know that a worldwide pandemic in 2020 would make them need to implement this innovation and use Juan’s help to do so. Now, Juan works with some of the biggest mega brands in fashion including Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Levis, and Under Armour to name a few. In this episode we learn how Juan managed to seduce them, which he's now evolving into a generative design platform with AiiD.

Connect with Juan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinezjc
Visite the AiiD website

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Defying the Odds: Being an Entrepreneur with a Disability
What do you do when people have constantly doubted you? How do you rise above it? On this week's episode, we sit down with Charles Held, a founder who has been doubted from birth, when he was diagnosed with a physical disability making doctors believe that he wouldn’t surpass a few years of life. However, Charles persisted, and since then he has not only survived life but has become a strong entrepreneur with goals to change the fashion and footwear industries. 

Revolutionizing Fit Tech and Footwear
Through ShoeFitr, Charles has taken multiple problems within the fashion industry and worked to solve them through fit tech. Developing a program that allows you to measure your shoe size prior to ordering, accessibility and sustainability are achieved causing shoe brands to rethink the way they view fit tech and fashion technology as a whole. Being a father while simultaneously embarking on the entrepreneurial journey, he works to inspire his daughter to think on a global level and make an impact on the world. 

So tune into this episode to hear more about Charles’ founder journey and how you can prove others wrong with determination and persistence. 

Visit the ShoeFitr website.
Connect with Charles on Linkedin.

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Finding Design Freedom
We know that for creatives, having ultimate design freedom is a must have in their process. But how can 3D printing help you? In this episode, host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang explores how designers can gain limitless possibilities using EOS, the leading technology provider for industrial 3D printing. Joined by Rebekka Jurtz, we will explore the various ways that 3D printing gives designers all the tools they need to bring any vision to life, from a pair of eyeglasses to a unique pair of shoes. Gone are the days of waiting and outsourcing for your prototype. 

The Future of 3D Printing
Rather than replacing designers, Rebekka and Peter discuss how 3D printing offers the chance to support designers through the creative process through to the final product. Whether you’re experimenting with intricate patterns, unique geometries, or groundbreaking concepts, EOS empowers designers to push the boundaries of what is possible. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights on the future of fashion and creativity with Rebekka and EOS!

This episode has been created in paid partnership with EOS.

https://www.eos.info/en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekka-jurtz-0896a7b1

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

The Sol3mates Vision
Join host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang and special guest Rijal Hikmatullah, co-founder of Sol3mates, as they delve into the exciting launch of his groundbreaking web3 and phygital sneaker brand. Explore Rijal's visionary insights on NFT integration, luxury collaborations, and the future of Sol3mates. Discover the exclusive advantages of partnering with the renowned Chalhoub Group and the enticing perks offered to Sol3mate OG members. 

How to Build a Web3 Sneaker Brand
Don't miss this episode where Rijal reveals the secrets to building a thriving web3 sneaker brand, including their impressive sale of over 2000 NFTs in just one month. Gain valuable knowledge on fostering a fashion community, especially in the metaverse space, and hear about Sol3mates' seamless integration of digital experiences with their highly anticipated physical sneaker collection launching in September 2023. 

Sneakerheads and web3 enthusiasts, this episode is a must-listen!

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

WANNA’s Virtual Try-On Technology
Trying something on in the dressing room and falling in love with the way it looks is one of the best feelings! Sergey Arkhangelskiy, CEO of WANNA, is revolutionizing the shopping experience with Virtual Try On (VTO) and giving consumers that same dressing room feeling in the comfort of their own homes. WANNA is a fashion industry expert and a partner to luxury brands in digital fashion transformation. Under the umbrella of the FARFETCH Group, WANNA steers brands through their 3D journey, deploying state-of-the-art 3D and AR technologies to boost business performance throughout the whole fashion value chain. 

Sergey Arkhangelskiy's Founder Journey
Sergey highlights the advantages of receiving support from a venture studio like Beyond Form. Sergey also expands on WANNA’s acquisition by FARFETCH for $30 million, how luxury brands have profited and utilized VTO technology and Augmented Reality (AR), and what the future of digital fashion and 3D imaging means for the fashion industry.

Checkout the Wanna website. Download WANNA Wear and WANNA Kicks apps on the App Store or wherever apps can be found on your device.

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Want to understand why luxury and e-commerce retailers are investing into Web3? In this episode, we sit down with Blake Lezenski from Outlier Ventures, the largest Web3 accelerator in the world, to discuss the concept of how digital scarcity authorizes the creation of digital luxury, luxury brands’ emphasis on targeting digital natives, and how to properly utilize Web3’s elements to immerse customers into the digital world.

Blake shares what they're looking for when choosing startups to invest in and participate in Outlier Ventures & Farfetch’s Dream Assembly Base Camp accelerator program. We learn about what drove them to pick only 3% of applicants for Cohort 2, the future of digital communities, the boundaries between Web2 and Web3, and the intertwining of the digital and physical worlds.

Find out more:
Outlier Ventures
Farfetch x Outlier Ventures Dream Assembly Base Camp

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

Help! I want to create digital fashion, but I don’t know how to use the technical software!? 

Charles Wilders, the founder of OuttaWRLD, talks about how he’s on a mission to empower the everyday customer to be able to create digital fashion. Meaning that anyone can now let their creative juices flow and in the future, digital fashion design will be as accessible as other no-design skills needed platforms. This episode unpacks what that they may mean from NFTs, to virtual wardrobes for social media, to the creation of virtual worlds in AR.

OuttaWRLD is a digital fashion app where anyone can create, wear, and share digital fashion all in real time augmented reality. No previous design skills needed. Users can design from digital fashion blanks, textures, colours, effects, mesh, and transitions to create a perfect digital fashion look that can then be worn in augmented reality.

OuttaWRLD is available to download on the app store on your iOS or android device. Find out more at outtawrld.io

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The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io