In continuation of London Fashion Week's Films, Fraying and Frizz, the second instalment of my fashion week roundup starts at with Belstaff, in collaboration with (an elusive) Liv Tyler.The Belstaff presentation could scarcely have been…
Bottletop’s Flagship Store – A Symbiosis of Sustainability…
I know I'm not alone when I say it takes more to get me into a retail store these days than ever before. Shopping online is the ultimate convenience, so stores have to go bold…
Discussing the Tensions Between Fashion, Technology and Sustainability…
Before meeting Vanessa Friedman, I considered the perspective she could lend on the tension between designers’ ability to create freely and the need to choose sustainable materials. Is there a conflict? Does working with sustainable…
Click Your Heels To Start The Dishwasher –…
Surrounded by students crafting leather on lasts using traditional methods, Adriana Goldenberg stands alone as the only student on the BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Design and Product Innovation course grappling with textiles and tech to…
Ravensbourne Incubation – A New Age of Fashion…
Our wearable tech, fashion tech (including smart textiles, wearables and soft robotics) and smart cities future is something I spend a great deal of time thinking about. How will fashion designers influence the wearable tech…
Wired 2016 Presents What’s New in AI, VR…
Despite an absence of fashion tech at Wired 2016, the annual conference (too dull a word for the excitement served up) demonstrates fashions in tech, of a sort.It's that time of the year pre-christmas when…
Plexal is set to be Europe’s Beating Heart…
News to lift the Brexit blues. Plexal, Entiq's new venture at Here East is a shining beacon of not just the future of tech businesses in London, but a coming together of arts, design, culture,…
Fyodor Golan’s 3D Simulated Fashion Presentation Heralds The…
These are some of the words I frantically tapped into my iPhone notes during Fyodor Golan's stunning London Fashion Week presentation: 'tender, ferocious, glitchy, primal, diverse'. The words hit me in digital waves, a helpful…
Fashion Tech and Speculative Wearables in Imminent Space…
A recent visit to Ravensbourne has catalysed a shift in my opinion of 'fashion tech' as a discipline and led to an animated discussion around the reasons for the aesthetic gulf between fashion design and technology. The…