Emma and Ben speak to Kalypso’s Digital Product Creation and Transformation Lead, Sophia Lara, to unpack the findings of this year's digital adoption research and ask whether DPC is ready for the deep end.

Download the full findings from Kalypso: https://kalypso.com/files/docs/2024-Digital-Adoption-Research-3.pdf

Emma speaks to Hasna Kourda,  Founder and CEO of Save Your Wardrobe - a platform and an ecosystem designed to streamline the post-purchase experience, across repair, maintenance, and upcycling.

Together, they discuss the pathway to systemic change, and a vision for sustainable fashion.

This episode - recorded live - features three members of the senior team behind data-driven clothing rental business Armoire.

Talking to Laura Butler, CTO, Sanober Mukadam, Chief Operating & Merchandising Officer, and Shefali McDermott, Head of Operations, Ben  explores the infrastructure, the economics, and the technology that keep a complex business model running.

For this episode of The Interline Podcast, Ben talks to Moses Rashid, CEO of The Edit LDN, about resale, the future of brand-consumer relationships, and how technology - including AI and digital collectibles - is fundamental to fashion's future in both predictable and unexpected ways.

This episode is sponsored by SOURCING at MAGIC, the leading North American and international destination event. The Interline will be partnering with SOURCING at MAGIC again this summer, to bring the full spectrum of fashion technology to life - across education sessions, live discussions, exhibitors and demonstrations - all in a dedicated fashion technology community, live in Las Vegas, from 7th to 9th August 2023.

After a year in which broader adoption of digital product creation, and recognition of the use cases for digital assets, fuelled an explosion of creative and commercial possibilities, what does 2023 have in store for 3D, DPC, and wider digital transformation in fashion?

To answer those questions - and more - Ben Hanson speaks to Alison Coddaire, a DPC leader at Kalypso, and one of several experts who’ve helped establish the practice as one of the leading digital product creation consultancies in the retail industry.

This episode is sponsored by Kalypso: In DPC and beyond, Kalypso helps companies to build the end-to-end solutions and connected ecosystems that allow them to digitally create, manufacture, and sell products.

Find out more at: https://kalypso.com/industries/consumer-retail/digital-product-creation

After undergoing a super-compressed hype cycle, fashion is ending the year with a very complicated mix of optimism and pessimism around the Metaverse. To dissect that, and to look at how digital-for-digital and digital-for-physical workflows and ecosystems interact, Ben talks to Cathy Hackl, Founder and Chief Metaverse Officer for Journey.

This episode of The Interline Podcast is sponsored by Cotton Incorporated. To find out more about how fashion's original fibre is preparing for a digital-native future, and to identify steps you can take today to start designing, developing, and sourcing smartly, digitally, visit www.cottonworks.com

Where does the fashion industry really stand on sustainability?

To help answer that question, Ben speaks with Ruth MacGilp,  Communications Manager for Fashion Revolution – an organisation comprised of representatives from every sector of the fashion business, who have collectively campaigned for a clean, safe, fair, transparent, and accountable fashion industry for more than a decade.

Together they underline the importance of taking rapid action, and explain the role that innovation in software, hardware, and process can play in enabling fashion brands, retailers, and suppliers to make meaningful progress towards essential targets.

The gap between making a sustainability statement and backing it up can be substantial, but transparency will not remain optional for much longer.

In this episode, Ben talks transparency with Jordi Beneyto Ferre, Senior Manager of Global Materials and Sustainability for Icebreaker - a brand renowned  for creating uncompromising performance garments from natural materials, and for its commitment to transparency in its material supply chain.

This episode of The Interline Podcast is sponsored by Coats Digital.  As part of a robust, multi-faceted ecosystem of best-in-class technologies, Coats Digital creates solutions that can transform the sustainability equation at both the material and the labour levels.

Discover more about GSDCost and FastReactFabric at www.coatsdigital.com

Ben Hanson talks to Marjorie Hernandez (Founder at LUKSO, and Co-Founder at The Dematerialised) about testing the possibility space of digital fashion, and about the core mechanics of digital ownership and decentralisation.

This episode is sponsored by Informa Markets and SOURCING at MAGIC. Register to attend for the next stage in this discussion, and to see The Interline and the SOURCING at MAGIC teams showcase fashion technology in action in the all-new SOURCE Lounge, August 7th through 10th 2022: https://www.sourcingatmagic.com/en/home.html

Explore our past collaboration with LUKSO: https://www.theinterline.com/11/2020/staking-your-claim-in-the-new-digital-economy/ 

As the apparel and footwear industries wrestle with the practicalities of turning discrete technology projects into broader transformation, we look at the mechanics of championing change through the lens of digital product creation.

For this episode, Ben is joined by Jared Goldman, VP of Design for footwear giants New Balance, and Sophia Lara, Digital Product Creation & Transformation Lead for Kalypso.

Artwork for this episode is courtesy of New Balance.

Our Editor brings together guests across technology, environment, and ethics to discuss how fashion supply chains can balance risk, responsiveness, and responsibility.

This episode is sponsored by Coats Digital. Find out more at www.coatsdigital.com

Featuring:

• Stuart McCready-Stocks
• Mark Dodds
• Sharon Benning-Prince

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Our premiere episode. Ben Hanson, Editor of The Interline, and Dan Leahy, CEO of MakerSights, discuss how the retail recovery will be defined by data.

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Emma chats to Mark Harrop, Founder and CEO at WhichPLM, who has helped brands, retailers, and manufacturers make intelligent investments in technology and smart choices for process change for over five decades.

Together, they run down the definition of product lifecycle management (PLM), the journey of technology in fashion over Mark's long career, and PLM's place at the centre of both the near-term and the longer-term future of fashion.

Emma welcomes Emily Rea, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Circulo to discuss the importance of repair, and the technology and data around it, in driving the circular fashion economy - and all-round sustainability - forward.

A unique episode of The Interline Podcast, documenting the way technology is becoming integral to fashion events, and how those major fixtures are changing to keep pace with the industry’s evolution.

Featuring Andreu David, Vice President of SOURCING at MAGIC and Ben Hanson, Editor-in-Chief of The Interline.

This episode is also sponsored by SOURCING at MAGIC. See the show live with SOURCING at MAGIC taking place in Las Vegas from 19th to 21st August, and then in New York from 22nd to 24th September. You can also find out more year-round by visiting www.sourcingatmagic.com.

The Interline spoke with the Head of Enterprise Sustainability at Avery Dennison about how the company is working to optimise labour and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers.

More in our sustainability archives: https://www.theinterline.com/category/fashion-sustainability-articles/

Emma speaks with Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel, CEO and Co-Founder of Arianee, about enterprise-grade digital product passports, and the new digital infrastructure the company believes will be necessary for the business models of the future.

Emma talks to Maxim Raykhrud, Chief Product Officer at ZERO10 about the maturity curve for augmented reality virtual try-on. They discuss the high bars that virtual try-on must meet in believability and accuracy,  privacy and data protection, and compliance - as well as the role of AI in future unlocks.

Emma sits down with  Namrata Sandhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Vaayu  to discuss what it was like to build automated software to help the retail ecosystem track and cut environmental impact in real time.

This episode is supported by SOURCING at MAGIC, where The Interline will be returning in August 2024 to host the next series of fashion technology conversations. Find out more at www.sourcingatmagic.com

For her first episode as host, Emma talks to Julian Osborne, co-founder of Batch LDN about redefining suits with their “Batch Model,” the foundations of slow fashion, and how they are working to change consumers' attitudes towards the consumption of fashion.

This episode is supported by our friends at SOURCING at MAGIC.

Emma talks to Nicolas Favreau, Product Marketing Director for Lectra, about what Industry 4.0 means for fashion, how the industry can achieve higher levels of traceability and transparency, what role AI will play in extracting insights from unstructured fashion data - and much more.

For more analysis of Lectra's new announcements, look for a full report on The Interline next week.

For this episode, Emma is joined by two of the team from Munich Fabric Start: Claudia Mynott, Marketing and Communications Director, and Simon Angel, Sustainable Innovations Curator.

Together they talk about:

• What the driving principles of the MFS show are today and what is important for live events to offer in the current climate.
• Whether the role of technology has changed over the years with the development of digital product creation, AI, and also the tightening regulations around sustainability.
• How the sourcing landscape might shift in the near future.

Find out more about the team's next event in Munich on the 21st and 22nd of January 2025 at: https://www.munichfabricstart.com/en/

Emma hosts Lydia Hartley, the Co-Founder of Continue - a startup enabling fashion brands to adopt circular practices and boost customer retention by powering their own peer-to-peer marketplaces.

Emma speaks to Patrik Frisk, CEO of Reju, a company working to recycle polyester at unprecedented speed and scale.

Together, they get into what it might take to secure fashion industry buy-in for industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling - and what the future of the circular economy could look like.

Emma speaks to Bhargava Ram Kummamuru, Product Manager leading Digital Product Creation at H&M. Together, they explore where H&M stands on its DPC journey today, the strategic direction that Ram and H&M see DPC taking, as well as how the broader tech ecosystem for fashion is maturing.

Emma speaks to Nina Khoury, VP of Strategic Operations at SKIMS, about her own career path and the popular brand's technology journey.