How To Sell Luxury To The Chinese - How To Sell Luxury To The Chinese. Tech Fashion. Stylesight. Trend forecasting with market intelligence. 10 Fashion Tech Startups to Watch. TREND HUNTER - #1 in Trends, 2013 Trend Reports, Fashion Trends, Tech, Style, Design & Pop Culture. The Tech of Fashion: 10 Ways Technology Drives Tomorrow’s Fashion. View in gallery Like any other art, the long-term trends in fashion are often driven by advancements in technology.
New materials merge with the old and new needs drive innovation while fashion slowly evolves. Which of today’s trends are driving the wearables of tomorrow? Join us as we explore the high tech fashion of the future– from energy to protection to information directly within the clothing we wear. Protection in Fashion: Armor and Information When we enter dangerous endeavors, from biking through the city to fighting fires, the clothes we wear can help keep us safe. Protection in Fashion Gallery Recycling in Fashion As fresh materials become harder to come by and/or less sustainable, the need to recycle existing fabrics becomes more important. Textilepedia - The Textile Encyclopedia.
StartUp FASHION StartUp FASHION. Self-Repairing Fabric in Fashion Developers have created a new kind of smart textile, self-repairing fabric. [...] April 26, 2013 Jessica Bucci Textiles Highlights. Gallery: Futuristic 'Smart Textiles' Merge Fashion with Tech. Virtual Fitting Room » About Fits.me. Fits.me is the world’s most commercially successful developer and provider of virtual fitting room solutions.
Its virtual fitting room solutions help boost the revenues and profitability of online clothing retailers by enabling them to overcome the Online Fit Problem. Fits.me Virtual Fitting Room solutions increase conversions, reduce garment returns and drive customer loyalty through increased brand satisfaction. The privately-held company is headquartered in London, UK, where its offices are home to the sales, marketing, client services, finance and corporate development functions. The company’s R&D and I.T. functions are located in Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia. Fits.me Virtual Fitting Room deployments are live, or preparing to go live, in 16 countries. 10 Awesome Innovations Changing the Future of Fashion. Suzanne Lee's kombucha fabric/Video screen capture Textile production is dirty dirty dirty -- one of the dirtiest industries in the world in fact.
Why? Partly because of the damage that cotton crops and synthetic fiber production inflicts on the environment, and partly because of seriously outdated manufacturing methods used to dye and finish fabric. According to the United States Energy Administration, the textile industry in the U.S. is the 5th largest contributor to CO2 emissions in the country. But enough of the depressing facts: As consumers are becoming increasingly aware and clothing manufacturers are stepping up to more environmental accountability, technology is taking off -- and there have been huge advances.
From fabric out of food, beer bottles and more to dying with air, and web sites that know your exact measurements, these 10 awesome technologies are changing fashion as we know it. 1. YouTube/Video screen capture Check out this video for more: 2. 3. 4. Tech Fashion Statement: The New World of Wearable Computing. NEW YORK — Imagine if your shirt could track your heart rate as you run, or if it could charge your cellphone on the go.
Innovative fashion designers and engineers, who are pushing the envelope with "smart textiles," dream of designing garments that are not just embedded with devices, but actually are the devices. Welcome to the world of wearable computing. The development of smart textiles is a true fusion of fashion and technology. From manipulating nanoparticles in cotton, to incorporating knit antennas and transistors into garments, the computational fashion industry is reimagining how we use clothing in our everyday lives. "Can garments become the actual device? " Dion was one of four speakers at an event on computational fashion held May 1 here at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Dion and her colleagues are developing a "belly band" to monitor fetal growth for women facing high-risk pregnancies. The Retailer Winning the Battle for Millennial Women. A look at Technology in Fashion. How has technology changed design. Oh boy.
I think today people's expectations are unbelievably high. There used to be a time, even when a child would sit there gleefully play with little blocks and things and whatever and have a grand old time and you said, "What was success," and it was obviously builder blocks or relatively simple and fun little electronic devices. Today the level of expectation in a child, let alone a grade school, or a high school, or college student is so extraordinarily high, they expect magic. I mean how are you gonna thrill a young person when no one even thought of letting a person have a pager initially for fear a pedophile might get them, to now you have kids that have their own phone and they all can call Mom and Dad with the push of a button?
And there's so much technology suffused in products that the expectation of not only children, but adults is so enormous. So, the sad part is you no longer can enchant a child or a teenager, or young adults, with something that's just a nice idea.