Venturing into Fashion Tech

From the new Amazon Style Store in California to Gucci on Roblox, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-emerging world of fashion tech. The past six months have been an impressive time for fashion tech trailblazers around the world, but are these new ideas and experiences here to stay? Our co-hosts are joined by Fashnerd.com editor, Muchaneta Kapfunde, to review the highlights of the first half of 2022 in the world of fashion tech, as well as foretell what could happen in the remaining months to come. 

Muchaneta Kapfunde is currently one of the leading influencers writing about the synergy between fashion, technology and wearables. She not only writes for her platform FashNerd.com, but has also contributed to Vogue Business and is a senior contributor at The Interline. Besides writing and working as a fashion innovation consultant for various fashion companies like LVMH Atelier, Muchaneta is also an associate lecturer on the merger of fashion with technology at London College of Fashion, UAL. 

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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

Once upon a time, finding the right fashion suppliers & manufacturers for small clothing brands was really difficult. Thankfully, startups such as LaunchMart (one of our portfolio startups) is revolutionising this with their 'Canva for clothing' platform. It is now easier, more than ever, to manufacture clothing using online platforms such as these with just a few clicks of a button, selection of templates and access to the right suppliers. 

Peter Jeun Ho Tsang hosts this episode to discuss this very topic with the founders of LaunchMart, Ruby Le Hong Ngoc & Tan Nguyen. The discussion covers the challenges that small clothing brands usually face such as the inability to put design sketches onto paper, how their platform makes the design & production process much simpler and how this creates a wider opportunity for more designers to emerge.  

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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

Material innovation is coming to a fore in recent years with new materials that are now ready to use in a variety of ways for fashion brands. Orange, cactus, spider silk, flowers and more are slowly being used in fashion products, but for many brands it can still be confusing on which fabric to use for which scenario. Not only are there the traditional fabric properties to consider, but now also the science behind it all. Choosing incorrectly can affect a product’s impact credentials, meaning potentially going against a brand’s sustainability values and intentions. 

Enter RoundRack, a new platform that helps brand to manage material innovation projects. Co-founder Arie Katz chats with hosts Von Ruzive and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang on how he came up with the idea for the platform. Along with his co-founder Alessia Gotti, RoundRack is learning what is needed to make the startup successful, from keeping the product simple through to how to speak to the technophobe fashion industry. This episode we hear about Arie’s founder journey so far and his tips for other fashion tech founders.

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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

What is a fashion tech? A question that is often asked in and out of the fashion industry, and one that confuses many people. This first episode looks to define what is fashion tech and how it is currently transforming the fashion industry. Co-hosts Peter Jeun Ho Tsang and Von N. Ruzive have an informal chat about which parts of the fashion industry technologies are impacting and which innovations are exciting them that have the potential to shape the future of how we will create, make, and consume fashion. 

The episode unpacks fashion tech startups including AI trend forecasting platform T-Fashion, on-demand manufacturing platform LaunchMart, and digital fashion juggernauts The Fabricant and RTFKT. The conversation also draws upon Von’s experience with her current venture building, a fashion brand, and how in the future fashion designers may look towards embracing technology into the design process. Do you think technology will be a needed facet of the fashion industry? We’d like to hear your thoughts! 

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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

Welcome to Venturing into Fashion Tech podcast show.

This podcast explores topics to do with fashion tech, entrepreneurship, and fashion business. Host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang,  CEO & founder of Beyond Form, will be looking at how technology is transforming the fashion industry.  Themes such as startup innovation, the evolution of fashion jobs, business culture, and the digital transformation of the fashion value chain. Peter will be joined by guests from the fashion industry, startup world and wider business community, where you’ll hear stories from founders, creatives, and executives to help shape your understanding of fashion tech.

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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