The Interline Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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.