Wearable technologies are an amazing part of modern fashion. From high-tech smartwatches to insoles trackers, they are bound to create a look for you while also easing your fitness journey. Keep in mind that fashionable wearables are not just for women; there are also many stylish options for men to choose from. In fact, many […]
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What exactly is an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) in the fashion industry? Fashion NFTs can take numerous forms, including virtual clothes that customers can wear within virtual worlds, digital content with which owners can engage, and digital twins of physical works. According to the Vogue Business Index, 17% of the businesses surveyed had some sort of […]
Metaverse Fashion Week, presented by the virtual-space Decentraland, has officially unveiled what it called “the future of fashion.” The metaverse is a virtual universe that combines digital technologies such as video conferencing, games, cryptocurrencies, email, virtual reality, social media, and live streaming. It’s unclear how these pieces will ultimately fit together, but some tech titans […]
Fashion and technology seem to be two parallel universes that never intersect. However, for the past few years, each of these universes has been trying to make an incursion into the other, with varying degrees of success. 3D printers, smart textiles, connected clothing and virtual reality – these may have been concepts from a sci-fi […]
Enrica Arena is one of the Co-Founders of Orange Fiber, an Italian company that patented and creates sustainable fabrics from oranges. The fabrics are truly innovative and offer a wide range of possible uses. We wanted to find out more about Orange Fiber’s work and invited Enrica to tell us more about their production process, […]
The burgeoning relationship between cryptocurrency and the fashion industry continues to reach new heights, if recent developments are anything to go by. For cryptocurrency leaders, user adoption is a focal point. For fashion, crypto can expand design capability and allow mainstream businesses to connect to a fringe culture. Increasingly, the unlikely pairing seems to be […]
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is an expert in wearable technology design, functional clothes and goods made from smart textiles. After many years of experience as an industrial and fashion designer, as well as a professor and researcher at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she created the Interwoven Design Group. Her vast experience and knowledge have landed […]
Over the last years, the word blockchain has become more and more popular, even though, for most people, it is still a rather abstract and novel concept, as is everything when it is just starting to emerge. Most people heard about blockchain when discussing cryptocurrencies, which have oscillated a lot in worth over the last […]
Erina Kashihara is a Japanese visual artist whose work revolves a lot around clothing and light. In her works, she uses technology to create pieces that change color depending on various conditions. In this interview, she offers insight into her wearable art and discusses her inspiration and the themes she works with when creating her […]
Fashiontech is defined as the friendly collision between the world of clothes making and the world of high tech. The quick expansion of technology in society has also touched the world of garments making and has added many layers to the idea of clothing itself: from adding things like impact sensors on sports pieces to […]
Frank Wautier is one of the key people of the French Kalypse brand, which offers a new take on wetsuits. Using state-of-the-art technology and a new style approach, the label is offering a new and completely improved experience to diving, both from a technical and an aesthetic point of view. How did the idea […]
Anke Domaske is the founder of the QMilk company, which produces garments from milk protein. It all began when Anke was searching for chemically untreated clothing for her stepfather who was struggling with serious health problems. Fibers made from milk proteins became her interest and in April 2011 she started her brand focusing on developing […]