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The material revolution at Milan's Salone 2018

By Rachael Stott 09 : 05 : 2018 Material : Biotechnology : Packaging

From sound-emitting glass to food as an interface, Salone del Mobile 2018 showcased a host of new material innovations that could shape the future of mass-consumer goods.

The material revolution at Milan's Salone 2018

Autumn/Winter 2023: The Download:

From a diversity downturn to a theatrical-versus-commercial polarity, these are the key takeaways from fashion month for autumn/winter...

Fashion : Luxury : Events

Chinese Outdoor Fashion Market:

Propelled by Covid, China's surging interest in local outdoor sports hints at new opportunities worth billions of yuan for the fashion...

China : Global Fashion And Style : Moncler

Safety Fits:

Merging functional gear with activism, emerging designers want to turn clothes into modern-day armour.

Fashion : Society : Technology

The collaborative future of fashion creatives:

Heralding an era of decentralised taste-making, fashion brands are exploring alternatives to the omnipotent creative director – from...

Fashion : Luxury : Retail

Heating up luxury fashion for Gen Z:

Heat co-founders Mario Maher and Joe Wilkinson explain how their mystery box concept taps into Gen Z mindsets, while offering a new way...

Luxury : Fashion : Youth

Collegiate Nostalgia:

Collegiate-inspired fashion and entertainment is soothing Gen Zers who feel their youth was stolen by the pandemic.

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Fashion

Laundry tech is reshaping circular fashion:

Wajahat Hussain and Richard Toon have created a solution to address the shrinking lifespan of garments. We discuss how Biorestore is...

Fashion : Sustainability : Technology

How to curb clothing consumption?:

Journalist, lecturer and sustainability adviser Olivia Pinnock explores the need for de-growth in the fashion industry.

Fashion : Sustainability : Society

Future Forecast 2023: Fashion:

From dystopian aesthetics and lab-based textile alternatives to the growth of resale platforms and monetised archives, we look ahead to...

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

How to create a fashion-forward metaverse:

With Brand New Vision, fashion veteran and entrepreneur Richard Hobbs is building a Web3 eco-system dedicated to fashion.

Fashion : Metaverse : Technology

Five luxury fashion brands advancing biotechnology:

Luxury fashion houses are increasingly recognising the potential of biotechnology and experimenting with bio-textiles for a more...

Fashion : Technology : Luxury

Teen Fashion Market:

Brands are re-imagining teen fashion with engaging activations spanning physical retail and the metaverse as the sector undergoes a...

Youth : Fashion : Retail

Doom Dressing:

Driven by a gathering mood of pessimism, a new dark, dystopian and eerie aesthetic is emerging, infused with satire and subversion.

Identity : Fashion : Climate Change

Resale Redux:

The resale market is enjoying a resurgence, taking on fast fashion as a (mostly) guilt-free alternative, and allowing younger consumers...

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Haute Couture Market:

New directions in the haute couture market reveal how the traditional sector is still at the forefront of fashion innovation and...

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

How fashion is tackling invasive species:

Aarav Chavda, co-founder and CEO of Inversa Leathers, explores how invasive species can enable fashion to rebalance and heal the planet.

Fashion : Leather : Sustainability

We must co-create to decolonise fashion:

Current sustainability initiatives are failing to decolonise the fashion and textiles industries. How can co-creation pave the way for...

Society : Fashion : Sustainability

Why brand futures lie in decolonising sustainability:

Moussa Mchangama, co-founder of sustainable and ethical consultancy In Futurum, discusses why sustainable action must be approached from...

Sustainability : Lifestyle : Fashion

Global Fashion Summit: forming fashion’s new alliances:

favour of planet-first, radical collaborations.

Fashion : Sustainability : Retail

Selfridges’ Andrew Keith on retail’s hyperphysical future:

The managing director of Selfridges examines the ways that retailers can create immersive, engaging and Hyperphysical Store experiences.

Retail : Stores : Department Stores

Sustainable Fashion Market: India:

Driven by glocal changemakers, India’s sustainable fashion market is growing rapidly – with a focus on circularity, heritage and innovation.

Fashion : Luxury : Sustainability

Streetwear Brokerages:

A series of new platforms are transforming fashion’s resale market into a bona fide investment arena, cementing garments as tradeable...

Fashion : Finance : Streetwear

Carbon Wears:

Emission-to-textile innovators are helping fashion brands to create new products while reducing the environmental impact of both the...

Fashion : Sustainability : Carbon

Second-life Bridal Market:

As a historically unsustainable category, the wedding sector is ushering in greener options to cater for brides’ increasingly...

Retail : Weddings : Bridal

Repurposed Roadwear:

Car brands are combining fashion and material innovation to promote sustainable practices in mobility’s green age – without sacrificing...

Mobility : Fashion : Sustainability

How fashion NFTs can spark eco-action:

Brad Morris, founder of digital fashion house MYAMI, shares how NFTs can be used as virtual tools for prompting environmental action.

Fashion : Metaverse : Climate

Convertible Clothing Market:

As the sustainable fashion landscape evolves, brands are experimenting with long-lasting garments that adapt, change or grow with wearers.

Fashion : Design : Sustainability

Unpacking luxury’s NFT and metaverse opportunity:

Daniella Loftus, a member of Red DAO, describes how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and digital goods can open new revenue streams and...

Luxury : Technology : NFTs

Gucci’s Robert Triefus on redefining luxury:

Gucci’s executive vice-president of brand and customer engagement discusses the inter-Covid lessons for luxury – and what The Five...

Luxury : Retail : Fashion

Eco-motional Fashion:

As climate anxieties abound, a new wave of change-makers are paving the way for a more positive, human-centric approach to sustainable...

Fashion : Sustainability : Sustainability Futures

Food’s Fashion Strategy:

Fashion is becoming a lucrative strategy for food, drink and dining brands, leading to new revenue streams, collaborations and...

Food : Fashion

Streetwear: are we buying the fuss or the fabric?:

The co-founders of nascent fashion brand Ballyhoo discuss why the future of hype lies in informed curation that fuses past, present and...

Fashion : Branding : Sustainability

Sneaker Hubs Market:

A new wave of online sneaker hubs is gaining traction by providing community, trust and independent perspectives beyond the original...

Fashion : Footwear : Resell

Five future paths for luxury collaborations:

Historical rivalries are being put aside as luxury firms embrace the benefits of working together, from authentication projects to...

Luxury : Sustainability : Fashion

Fashion Rental Market:

Fashion rental services are evolving to benefit brands and consumers, providing new revenue streams, peer-led style inspiration and...

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Galaxy’s live-stream app animates fashion resale:

Danny Quick, co-founder of retail app Galaxy, explains why live video selling will foster a community-led future for fashion resale.

Retail : Fashion : Sustainability

Coterie Consumerism:

As e-commerce booms, Generation Z fashion brands are turning our digital habits into physical activations to make the shopping...

Fashion : Retail : Youth

Eyewear Market:

After the shock of Covid-19, the eyewear market has its sights on enhancing physical retail, more inclusive optical designs and...

Fashion : Design : Intersectionality

Fashion Meta-networks:

Breaking away from oversaturated social media platforms, fashion communities are finding connection and inspiration in alternative...

Fashion : Technology : Metaverse

Barter Brands:

Inter-Covid, bartering is gathering pace, giving retail brands a chance to explore systems where customers trade items for access to...

Retail : Society : Payments

Accelerating African Fashion:

Cross-cultural collaborations and digital innovations are helping to advance African fashion on the global stage, while preserving local...

Africa : Fashion : Retail

Fashion rental’s future is locally peer-to-peer:

Jen Charon, co-founder of Loanhood, explains why local communities and peer-to-peer interactions will drive the future of fashion rental.

Fashion : Retail : Sustainability

Interactive Eco-labels:

To inspire greener behaviour among customers, fashion brands are elevating their product labels to promote transparency and product...

Fashion : Sustainability : Retail

Adaptive Fashion Market:

Fashion brands are addressing the sector’s ableist design history, tackling representation, wearability and material innovation for a...

Fashion : Retail : Inclusivity

Four innovators shaping bio-positive fashion:

Sustainability demands are pushing forward material innovation in the fashion sector, resulting in a series of smarter processes, from...

Fashion : Retail : Material

Dematerialising fashion:

Marjorie Hernandez de Vogelsteller, co-founder of The Dematerialised, examines the future of clothing and the potential for digital...

Fashion : Retail : Digital Fashion

Fashion 2030: Hacked, tracked and rationed:

As fashion counts the cost of its planetary impact, we future-gaze to 2030 and posit an era when fast fashion is not only traced – it’s...

Fashion : Technology : Sustainability

MetaFactory creates internet-owned brands:

Drew Harding and Hammad Jutt, co-founders of MetaFactory, discuss how cryptoculture and decentralised brand economies are redefining retail.

Retail : Cryptocurrency : Fashion

Second-hand Brands:

Brands are taking back control of their second-hand stock and launching dedicated platforms and spaces to sell pre-owned products.

Retail : Resale : Fashion

How The Yes is re-imagining algorithmic retail:

Julie Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of The Yes, explains her vision for intelligent e-commerce and the importance of curated online...

Retail : Media And Entertainment : Fashion

Deadstock Designers:

As the pandemic leaves fashion brands with a glut of unsold apparel, designers are shifting focus to dead stock and agile new waste...

Fashion : Retail : Design

DIY Dressing Market:

With sustainability increasingly front of mind, consumers are getting creative with their clothing and opting for DIY fashion over new...

Fashion : Sustainability

Anti-viral fabric for the inter-Covid era:

IFTNA (Intelligent Fabric Technologies North America) creates anti-viral textile solutions. Giancarlo Beevis, CEO, discusses the...

Fashion : Materials : Covid-19

Agile Artisans:

Revealing a more resilient business model, ethical fashion and homeware brands are supporting their artisan suppliers during the...

Fashion : Homeware : Retail

Epidemic Retail Futures:

How will retailers in 2025 cater for future viral outbreaks and enable consumers to move effortlessly in and out of lockdown periods?

Inter-covid : Scenario : Retail

Raw and real: a new era for influencer marketing:

A migration towards smaller influencers more deeply in touch with their audiences will shape how brands work in the years ahead.

Retail : Covid-19 : Feedback Frontiers

Studio Stores:

Faced with declining footfall and fallout from coronavirus, retailers are reclaiming their stores as multimedia hubs for content creation.

Retail : Media : E-commerce

In-game fashion:

The synergy between fashion and gaming is swelling as designers and brands produce garments for wearing in-game and IRL.

Gaming : Fashion : Media

The digital future of Fashion Weeks:

The impact of Covid-19 and growing climate concerns are pushing luxury and fashion brands to technology that digitises the runway and...

Fashion : Luxury : Retail

Feedback Frontiers:

As communications with consumers become more circular and conversational, brands are treating every micro-interaction as a valuable...

Retail : E-commerce : Digital

Voyage Apparel:

Clothing and accessories brands are catering for Liberated Luxurians with new collections and services for ever-more peripatetic...

Luxury : Fashion : Travel

Pollution Apparel:

Leading creatives are using water pollution as a resource to highlight unsustainable production practices in the fashion industry and...

Fashion : Apparel : Sustainability

Refashioning charity retail:

Julie Neeve, project manager of new store formats at Oxfam, on the perks of housing the charity’s new superstore on an Oxford industrial...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Fast Fashion Rental:

Clothing rental is moving from high-end fashion to the high street, creating new paths to discovery and access for trend-conscious...

Retail : Fashion : Retail Technology

Microbes will make manufacturing transparent:

Dr Jessica Green, CEO and co-founder of Phylagen, on using microbiomes to verify brands’ ethical manufacturing practices.

Fashion : Supply Chain : Transparency

Instagram isn’t the space for sustainable fashion:

As more brands strive to be sustainable, it’s time to re-think social platforms that promote incessant newness and instant in-app...

Sustainability : Fashion : Instagram

Future-proofing India’s organic cotton farmers:

Sustainability adviser Derek Sabori and Volcom chief marketing officer Ryan Immegart on the brand’s traceable organic cotton initiative...

Fashion : Sports : Sustainability

Gaming Garments Market:

Esports and gaming culture are infiltrating the world of fashion, with inspiring brand collaborations and innovation in performance wear.

Fashion : Esports : Leisure

Automated Apparel:

The next generation of connected clothing will use artificial intelligence to react and recalibrate, catering for continually changing...

Fashion : Wellness : AI

Sustainable Footwear Market:

Following in the footsteps of fashion, the shoe industry is embracing sustainability, not only through materials and assembly, but also...

Fashion : Footwear : Sustainability

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