Fashion Made

On this week's show we welcome Sarah Chessis, CEO of SewSew You, to discuss consumer 'voice' versus their actions; how to enable local supply chains; the comparisons with the food industry; what steps brands are taking to improve their practices and how on-demand manufacturing is the only sustainable way of making new clothes.

On this week's episode we speak with Stefan Hauswiesner, the CEO of Reactive Reality, about the virtual dressing room, their solution Pictofit, the wider industry and how it's such an important time right now, as well as cutting through some of the noise around virtual try-on, fit and styling solutions to see what the numbers really mean for consumers and e-tailers alike.

On this week's show we talk with Petri Alava, CEO at Infinited Fiber, about their incredible technology that turns waste into soft fibers ready for use in a wide range of fabrics. This could be a real game changer for the fashion industry and beyond so we're very excited about the future.

On this week's show we chat with Bobby Östberg, CEO and Co-Founder at ZyseMe who have been developing a novel technique to enable customized clothing production at scale. We talk about the technology, as well as discuss the wider issues surrounding on-demand manufacturing, profitability, sustainability and the nuances around size, fit and style.

On this week's episode we speak with Jenny Siede, Chief Thinker/Maker at In Style Exchange. We discuss the evolution of sustainable manufacturing, the importance of mental health as well as business success, and the role of young talent coming up within the sector.

The Covid curveball has forced us to re-exam our go to market strategies, to align ourselves with shifting consumer values, and to be agile. The data we relied on in the past no longer serves our future. The convergence of technology to form a brand new eco-system for success is upon us. Hear from some of the experts about the challenges, successes and base requirements for making your brand a retailer in today's world.

This week we are joined by Jonathan Théry from Salomon to talk all about the digital journey there and how important collective intelligence is when it comes to successful transformation of a business.

On this week's episode we speak to HOT:SECOND founder, Karinna Nobbs, to find out what was behind the concept of trading of physical for digital as well as what the future looks like for digital-only fashion as well as some insight to the very-close future of HOT:SECOND.

Emily Roosen is Head of Transformation at STITCH and gives Fashion Made some fantastic insight to what digital transformation looks like in such a large and diverse organisation.

This week's show features Senior Director of Tecnical Design, Nidhi Puri, as we discuss who should lead digital transformation and how they should do it. Not just from an internal standpoint but how you do this with your suppliers as well. The importance of people in this whole journey is not to be understated and Nidhi reminds us that things must change in the wider fashion industry for it to succeed in the future.

As we all know, fit has become one of the critical components in the fashion industry's roadmap to success. We are slowly making our exit from the regionally varied homogenous sizes that we've all come to know and hate, which can only be a good thing. What can technology and changing consumer behaviours do to push the FIT opportunity forward? We talk to Whitney Cathcart, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at 3DLOOK, to find out.

As Director of Strategic Partnerships within Google's Advanced Tech department, Barry McGeough knows what he's talking about when it comes to new technology. We spent some time discussing the myriad of technologies that are coming over the next few years and how this will shape the landscape for retail, footwear and apparel in the future.

This week we are joined by Kurt Cavano, CEO at Nimbly, to talk about the rise of on-demand manufacturing and how Kurt sees this playing out over the coming years as brands and partners move to become smarter, more cohesive units that blend on-demand and localised services with production en masse that happens further abroad to achieve a far greater proposition for the consumer.

Director of Innovation at Deckers Brands, Chris Hillyer, joins us to catch up on where the fashion world is right now with regards to digital materials. Are more companies adopting this technology as a serious path to a quicker and more efficient product development process? What are the limitations? Do those limitations even need to be overcome for this to make business sense? Chris provides answers to all these questions and more.

We kick off season 3 with a conversation alongside Danit Peleg, a 3D Printed Fashion Designer whose work is gaining great notoriety in this burgeoning industry. During the chat we talk about what kind of materials are available and the differences between them, how machinery plays a big part, how this might affect consumer behaviour and the huge benefits this will mean for our mission to be more sustainable.

Founder of FashNerd and prominent fixture at UK fashion technology events, Muchaneta Kapfunde has witnessed the rapid increase in companies using software and hardware to gain a competitive edge and become more sustainable. In this week's episode, we discuss what will happen over the coming months and years to enable more sustainable business models and keep the consumer happy.

The skills deficit is perhaps one of the biggest problems facing the industry today and will require a unique partnership between brands, manufacturers, academics and technology providers to overcome. Paola Bertola joins us from Politecnico di Milano to shed some light on the research they have done in this area to foster and deliver the appropriate skill set needed to operate within a digitally transformed fashion industry.

Joost Alferdinck joins the podcast to take a look at today’s challenges that fashion brands walk into when switching from physical to digital.

Tom Duhoux joins Fashion Made to talk about his fully circular denim company

Gumdrop has been founded on a closed loop recycling process and is the first company to make an entire shoe from would-be waste chewing gum. Shaun Licence joins Fashion Made to discuss how changing consumer behaviour is essential to closed-loop recycling, as well as share some provocative facts about mankind's problem with waste and how we can find solutions.