Venturing into Fashion Tech

As we close out 2024, this year's final episode is joined by Yoobin Jung, a VC at Plug and Play, where she along with our host Peter break down the fashion tech booms and busts that happened throughout the year. They discuss:
• AI's transformative impact on fashion design: Generative design tools are accelerating prototyping and reshaping brand identities, but raise ethical concerns about potentially replacing junior designers.
• The sustainability challenge: AI could help align production with demand, potentially addressing the persistent issue of overproduction in the fashion industry.
• Luxury brands and AI adoption: High-end fashion houses are cautiously approaching AI, grappling with complexities of clothing structures and concerns about AI-driven overconsumption.
• Recommendation algorithms: Effectiveness varies between Europe and South Korea, prompting questions about enhancing consumer experiences versus fuelling overconsumption.
• Regulatory landscape: EU policies like Extended Producer Responsibility aim to promote circularity, yet industry readiness is questionable, as evidenced by Renewcell's bankruptcy.
• Future of luxury e-commerce: The resale market is gaining prominence, with potential lessons from South Korea's Kakao platform on integrating digital and physical retail experiences.
Contact Yoobin on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yoobinjung

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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 Perfect Investor Pitch Deck:

The perfect investor pitch deck combines storytelling, market understanding, and founder credibility to stand out in the competitive venture capital landscape. Venture capitalists typically spend just over three minutes reviewing each deck, with only 1% securing funding. In this episode Peter and Rohan breakdown what makes a great deck and the red flags that investors see.

Tips & Tricks Explored in this Episode:

• Storytelling is crucial as humans connect with narratives and founders must demonstrate how their experience is relevant to the problem they're solving.
• Market sizing should be realistic and calculated using a bottom-up approach.
• Red flags include co-founders with too-similar backgrounds and unrealistic growth projections
• A disorganised pitch deck often reflects disorganised thinking, and the questions "Why now?" and "Why you?" must be convincingly answered.

Connect with Rohan on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rohan-bansal-50328179/

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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

Join Peter Jeun Ho Tsang and special guest Ben Hanson, a seasoned expert in the field and Editor-in-Chief of The Interline , in the final episode of 2023 as they reflect on the whirlwind of tech trends shaping the fashion industry. From the meteoric rise and sudden fall of NFTs to the potential impact of generative AI on design, the conversation explores the highs, lows, and uncertainties in the world of fashion tech. Gain insights into the challenges, opportunities, and the evolving role of AI in creative processes. Whether you're a fashion enthusiast or a tech aficionado, this episode promises to unravel the complex dynamics of Fashion Tech.

• Downfall of NFTs: scrutinize their actual relevance, and voice our skepticism on how they address challenges like policing digital creation and safeguarding intellectual property.
• AI isn't infallible, but trust us, the future isn't bleak. AI's ethical implications in fashion, addressing biases, and promoting diversity.
• Shedding light on the evolving consumer experience, we touch on the rise of mixed realities in fashion retail, exploring virtual stores and digital twins.
• Highlighting the significance of interconnected supply chains, the vital role of technology and consumer demand in enabling it, the crucial aspects of transparency, the role of digital IDs, and the challenges brands face in achieving sustainability goals.

Looking ahead Hanson predicts a surge in the adoption of 3D design in fashion, citing its potential to revolutionize the entire value chain. The forthcoming Digital Production Report for 2023 is teased, promising insights into why 3D design will be a pivotal factor in fashion tech trends for the upcoming year.
Check out our Website for the downloadable PDF to accompany this episode!
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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

Building Tech Better Retail Experiences
Joining Von N. Ruzive and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, co-authors of Fashion Tech Applied, are Hillary Littleton, Head of Marketing at FIT:MATCH, Elina Minina, CBDO at Cappasity, and Charles Wilders, CEO at Showcase X, to discuss how retail experiences are being augmented by technologies. The panel unpacks how tech like 3D modeling, AI, and augmented reality are reconfiguring the online and offline retail experiences. From creating your digital twin to find that impeccably fitting garment, to the role of AR holograms in building consumer trust, and why it's a combination of tech that will be make better shopping journeys.
Fashion Stores of the Future
The panel shares invaluable insights from extensive R&D, proving that the success of tech in fashion hinges on solving genuine customer pain points and providing a shopping experience that feels personal and powerful. We confront the real struggles brands face, from budgetary restraints to the steep learning curve in harnessing these technologies. The episode looks into a future where your shopping journey might be led by your smartphone, and we unravel how generational shifts are leading brands to recalibrate for a tech-savvy audience. What does your fashion store of the future look like?
This episode was originally recorded as a webinar on LinkedIn live.
Find out out about guest speakers in the links below:

• Hillary Littleton from FIT:MATCH
• Elina Minina from Cappasity
• Charles Wilders from Showcase X

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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

Human Creativity & Technology
Joining Von N. Ruzive and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, co-authors of Fashion Tech Applied, are Yigit Alp Elmas CEO of T-Fashion and Koen Warmerdam co-founder of Aware, to discuss how tech is impacting the creation of fashion products. The conversation unpacks how human creativity is still a vital part of the design process and tech will not replace humans, but rather how the individuals with the tech skills will be the ones thriving. We confront the industry's resistance to new technologies and emphasise the importance of shifting mindsets to adopt these innovations that promise to refine industry processes.
The Future of Fashion Design & Product Development
With the emergence of tech such as Gen AI, digital product passports, and data-driven platforms, this episode shines a light on the importance on how they can be integrated into the fashion value chain and bring value in the creation of new fashion products. The panel forecasts a 'phygital' future where the physical and digital realms of fashion converge. What do you think will be the future of fashion design and product development?
This episode was originally recorded as a webinar on LinkedIn live.
Find out about Aware here and T-Fashion here.
Connect with Koen here and Yigit here.
*EXCLUSIVE OFFER* -20% discount for podcast listeners on the printed or ebook of Fashion Tech Applied. Purchase your copy at Springer here using the discount code*: 08cWPRlx1J7prE

*Offer ends end June 2024

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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