Fashion Forward

ROUNDTABLE SERIES_Sustainability Without a Mindset Shift Is Still Overproduction

We've heard from manufacturers, technologists and sustainability experts. This is another episode of the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series where host Christab

FOUNDER'S CORNER_Her Grandmother Started With One Sewing Machine. Nina Zhang Started With 300 Manufacturers.

Every brand is chasing AI and algorithms. Nina Zhang is building Kibra Active to chase something the industry has almost forgotten: real human connection. Founders Corne

ROUNDTABLE SERIES_Overproduction and Overconsumption Run on Autopilot

This is another episode of the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series where host Christabel Achu sits down with the people actually building, sourcing, producing a

ROUNDTABLE SERIES_Blaming Consumers Alone Will Never Fix Fashion's Waste Problem

This is another episode of the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series where host Christabel Achu sits down with the people actually building, sourcing, producing a

ROUNDTABLE: "Overproduction Is What Makes Overconsumption Possible"

We've heard from the manufacturers. Now it's the technologists' turn. This is Fashion Forward's Industry Roundtable, where host Christabel Achu sits down with the people

ROUNDTABLE: Technology Didn't Cause Fashion's Waste Problem. It Just Made It Faster.

This is the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series where we sit down with the people actually building and producing fashion, to unpack the industry's biggest tens

ROUNDTABLE SERIES: If You Don't Make It, We Can't Overconsume It: A Technologist Picks a Side

This is another episode of the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series unpacking fashion's biggest tensions with the people actually living them. We've heard two te

FOUNDER'S CORNER:Every Fashion Designer Hates Making Tech Packs. Kaylyn Smith Built the Tool That Changes That.

Every fashion designer is switching between Illustrator and Excel. Kaylyn Smith built the plugin that ends that forever. Founders Corner is the series where real fashion

ROUNDTABLE_Everyone's Debating Overproduction vs Overconsumption. This Manufacturer Says We're Asking Wrong.

This is Episode 2 of the Industry Roundtable, Fashion Forward's series where we sit down with the people actually building and producing fashion, to unpack the industry's

ROUNDTABLE_Perceived Demand: Why This Manufacturer Says Overconsumption Is the Real Culprit

Welcome to the Industry Roundtable, a new series from Fashion Forward where we go straight to the people building, sourcing, and producing fashion, and ask them the quest

FOUNDER'S CORNER: The Fashion Industry Has Been Telling Curvy Women to Find a Tailor for Decades. Susan Valdez Said No

The fashion industry made plus size bigger. It never made it curvier. Susan Valdez did. Founders Corner is the series where real fashion and technology founders tell the

FOUNDER'S CORNER: The Canva of Fashion Product Design Is Finally Here. Meet the Co-Founders of Fabra.

3D product design has always required expensive software, a powerful laptop, and months of training. Luke Grana and Gloria Yu built Fabra to change all three. Founder's

She Walked Away from a $43 Million Fashion Brand to Build Something the Industry Has Never Seen

The fashion industry has been making patterns the same way since the 1800s. Yuliya Raquel built the AI that finally changes that. Founders Corner is the series where rea

She Is 4'10". She Built a Fashion Brand for the 50% the Industry Ignored.

Petite women spend hundreds of dollars a year fixing clothes that were never built for them. Alina Diaz is done letting the industry get away with it. Founders Corner is

How AI Can Really Reduce Waste in Fashion — With Sylwia Szymczyk & Barbara Maiocchi

Fashion's waste crisis does not begin at the landfill. It begins the moment a collection is planned without adequate demand intelligence and developed through a process t

Founder's Corner: Shreya Bhan on taking down the fashion mafia

Founders Corner is the series where real fashion and technology founders tell the unfiltered truth about building. No PR polish. No vanity metrics. Just the real story.

Founders Corner: Natasa Pitra-Grbic of Pitra the Label: On Building With Craft, Conviction & a Whole Lot of No's

Founders Corner is the series where real fashion and technology founders tell the unfiltered truth about building. No PR polish. No vanity metrics. Just the real story.

Agile Fashion Production: How to Reduce Overproduction, Cut Costs & Build a Smarter Brand

Overproduction is costing fashion brands more than they realise — and most of the waste is being planned in long before a garment ever reaches production. In this solo e

Overproduction: Fashion's Dirty Secret — With Vinchy Chan, Co-Founder of Makea

Overproduction is often called the fashion industry's dirty secret. But how bad is it really? And more importantly — where does it actually start, and what does it take t

Digital Technology in Design Development: Yay or Nay?

In this episode of Fashion Forward, host Christabel Achu interviews Lauren Robson, a freelance fashion designer, about her journey in the fashion industry, the design dev