Tag: fashion

Trends for 2022: Crypto, Web3, VR, and the Metaverse

By Matthias Schrader

What are the macro and strategic trends in the tech industry? Matthias Schrader shares his thoughts about Benedict Evans' annual presentation.
Amazon’s Echo Look is sneaking AI into your style – and your health

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon wants to put a camera in your wardrobe - and help you make fashion decisions. It's a great offer for the Snapchat generation - but could those images be giving away more about you than you expect?
Jumping the fashion forward innovation gap

By Adam Tinworth

Getting a new tech idea over the innovation gap can be hard. Compare a 3D printed dream, with a retail reality…
Design fictions: transparent planes and bluetooth heels

By Adam Tinworth

Two fascinating glimpses of futures that might yet be: a see-through plane, and heels that talk to your phone…
Monday morning catch-up reading

By Adam Tinworth

Five stories to kickstart your week - or to make for an interesting lunchbreak…
How close is custom printed fashion to the mainstream?

By Adam Tinworth

Bruce Sterling, a speaker at this year's NEXT conference, had some insight into how close Mary Huang (one of last year's speakers) is coming to making print-on-demand fashion mainstream…
The Future of Fashion Blogging

Time is short and there’s a lot of great stuff on the internet. So services like Bloglovin’ come in handy, when you have too many interests and too little time. Mattias Swenson presents his visual RSS reader and the latest trends in blogging.
I Like My Style: Online Goes Print

First, there was print. Then, there was online. That’s why the vast majority of fashion magazines started as print mags. Websites and blogs were launched later on. ‘I Like My Style’ reversed this process. Adriano Sack explained the concept at NEXT Berlin 2012.
My Life As Fashion Blogger and Journalist

Dandydiary.de is not just another fashion blog. Roth converges merges fashion with art, media and culture. In this talk, he presents some of his projects and explains how he earns money with his blog.
The Future of Fashion Media

Internet usage is becoming increasingly fragmented. People spend their time online on a variety of websites. Therefore Glam Media aggregates various blogs, which together reach a critical mass of users and attract advertisers. At NEXT Berlin Ralf Hirt presented the concept.
Fashion Revolution

Regine Harr predicts a radical change in the way we consume fashion and clothes. And she aims at starting the revolution herself.... In this talk she reports about a project that has the potential to do so.
Is Hand-Made A Mass Market?

Does hand-made really have the ability to satisfy the masses? Claudia Helming tried to answer this question in her talk at NEXT Berlin 2012.
Social and Commerce: Knitting Grandmothers Go Digital

Katie Mowat started her own social commerce company, Grannies Inc. In this talk she explains what the core elements of social business are and how she implemented them in her business model.
HASENFARM: The Story of a Spreadshirt Partner Shop

Henning Groß presents the story behind the young label HASENFARM - a Spreadshirt Partner Shop.
Next Trends in Clothing Commerce at Spreadshirt

"The future of fashion is about niches”, Philip Rooke stated at NEXT Berlin 2012. In this talk he shows how Spreadshirt helps smaller labels and unknown designers to find their niche.
3D Printing & The Future of Fashion

Mary Huang explores which processes are appropriate for producing clothes. And she is not scared by emerging technologies. In her work she experiments with the effects technology and fashion have on one another.
From Paperdolls to POS

On stardoll.com teens from around the globe design their own fashion collections. It has the potential to change established career paths and smooth the way for young designers.
We Are What We Make

A vivid speech by Nora Abousteit on the renaissance and value of making things yourself. The DIY revolution has set a development in motion that will radically change the way we consume.
Oh Brother, Where Are Thou: The Fashion Market In Post-Digital Times

“Selling clothes online? That will never happen. People will always want to feel and smell the fabric.” That’s what the fashion industry stated 10 years ago. In this talk Lennard Minderhoud proves the opposite.
3D printed shoes: the next sporting advantage?

By Adam Tinworth

Could 3D printed clothing move beyond fashion into high performance sportswear?
Constrvct: kickstarting interactive fashion design

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT Berlin speaker Mary Huang is looking to push customised, user generated fashion to a new level with a Kickstarter-funded project called Constrvct.
Google Glass: making wearable computing mainstream?

By Adam Tinworth

Could Google's connected glasses suggest a future where we're surrounded by wearable tech? And what does that mean for our mobile phones?
Selling Fashion Online – and Printing Clothes

By Adam Tinworth

Four talks from the Fashion track, exploring the future of fashion: designed and sold online, printed and equipped with micro-sensors…