The fashion industry is going through restructure, just like the music industry did few years ago. As fashion brands become more digital, it gets harder for the old rules to work. Collections, seasons, fashion weeks, buyers, magazine editors - everything and everyone are challenged these days, and inevitably many processes will be redefined, and many [...]
Last week I wrote on the subject of content overload, which sparked conversation among bloggers who find they are also battling the quality vs quantity dilemma. This lead me to another hot subject widely discussed on the web these days – the decreasing relevance of search engines and the increasing importance for web curation. Let’s [...]
In case you had any doubt that online invite only sample sales are the hottest e-commerce trend of the year, the recent coverage by TechCrunch and NY Times and millions of dollars spent on funding and acquisition in the space proved the point. Besides the leading startups, more and more retailers such as Saks are [...]
Many people (including myself on this blog) are talking about the fashion industry being slow to adapt new technologies. While I’m at no point trying to portray a negative image, but rather help and educate, sometimes the things I see make me wonder how some fashion companies and organizations manage to stay in their own [...]
I spent the last week playing with futuristic thoughts on fashion and technology, triggered by the Singularity Summit which took place in NYC this past weekend and I followed live via Twitter. For those new to the concept, “The Singularity represents an “event horizon” in the predictability of human technological development past which present models [...]