Venturing into Fashion Tech
This podcast explores topics on fashion tech, entrepreneurship, and fashion business. Host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang looks at how technology is transforming the fashion industry by dissecting themes such as startup innovation, the evolution of fashion jobs and business culture, and the digitalisation of the fashion value chain. Joined by guest speakers from the fashion industry, startup world and wider business community, you’ll hear stories from founders, creatives, and executives to help shape your understanding of fashion tech. The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform that works with ambitious founders to build fashion tech startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so please do let us know if you’d like us to explore a topic of conversation. You can email us on podcast@beyondform.io - If you’re an entrepreneur or a fashion tech startup needing a boost in your business journey, then check out our website: https://bit.ly/36qBPXR
Episodes
65 episodes
2024 Fashion Tech Year in Review: Gen AI & design, Bankruptcies, Hyper-Personalised Shopping & more with Yoobin Jung
As we close out 2024, this year's final episode is joined by Yoobin Jung, a VC at Plug and Play, where she along with our host Peter break down the fashion tech booms and busts that happened throughout the year. They discuss:• AI's tran...
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Episode 66
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44:33
Build It Series Recap: My Top 5 Fashion Tech Insights with Peter Jeun Ho Tsang
We wrap up our 'Build It' podcast series with a reflective finale. Host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang tell us his top 5 key takeaways from navigating business growth, how to get through challenging times as a fashion tech startup, through to tech and hum...
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Episode 65
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11:53
Build It Series: AI Mirrors Transforming Fashion Retail with Raza's Afsal Koya
Setting Up a Fashion Store in the 90s:Today's episode we're with Afsal Koya, CEO of Raza Clothing which is a fashion store and label in the USA that uses AIMIRR's virtual try-on technology. Afsal's transformation from a computer scie...
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Episode 64
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29:26
Build It Series: Harnessing Truthful Data & AI in Fashion Fit Tech with Katy Schildmeyer
Fashion's Fit Dilemma: Today's episode features fashion garment technologist and fit expert Katy Schildmeyer. As online shopping increases, the challenge of ensuring accurate garment fit remains ever-present. Katy and Peter Jeun Ho d...
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Episode 63
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34:08
Build It Series: Embracing Failure in Fashion with Beatrice Newman
What Failing in Fashion Looks Like: We welcome back Beatrice Newman, Head of Education at Beyond Form, where we discuss what it means to fail in fashion, what failure looks like, lessons that can be learned, and why it's still a tabo...
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Episode 62
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30:04
Build It Series: Pivoting in Fashion Business with Beatrice Newman
MODE Pivots into Beyond Form Education:Beatrice Newman, the creative force behind online fashion education platform Mode, chats in this episode what it means to pivot a fashion business. Exclusively on today's episode she reveals the...
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Episode 61
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27:38
Build It Series: Modernising Fashion Factories with Shahkam Industries' Shahid Butt
Inheriting a traditional fashion factory in Pakistan:Raised amidst the rich tapestry of a family-owned garment production business, Shahid Butt now helms his father's empire Shahkam Industries in Lahore, Pakistan. This episode offers...
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Episode 60
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41:29
Build It Series: Achieving the Perfect Fashion Fit with AIMIRR's Pritesh Kanani
From Mumbai to Microsoft to Body Sizing:Today's episode feature's Pritesh Kanani, founder & CEO of AIMIRR. From his early days in Mumbai to steering technological advancements at Microsoft, we hear Pritesh's journey to developing...
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Episode 59
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32:03
Build It Series: Pitching My Fashion Tech Idea to Old Men in Grey Suits with Launderd's Chelsea
Launderd's Fundraising Journey:12 months on since we heard how Chelsea Van De Kamp, founder of Launderd, planned to launch her fashion repair and restoration platform, she's now back on the show but this time with all guns blazing as...
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Episode 58
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27:10
Build it Series: I Got Scammed Trying to Finance My Fashion Tech Startup!
The Financial Scam:Have you ever found yourself tangled in a financial scam, when all you were trying to do was fuel your entrepreneurial dreams? Brian Yurachek, the founder and CEO of New York Culture Club, reveals his own unfortuna...
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Episode 57
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31:28
Build It Series: From Wall Street to Fashion IoT with NYCC's Brian Yurachek
From Wall Street to Fashion Tech:What happens when a Wall Street finance pro decides to revolutionise the fashion industry? Join us as we chat with Brian Yurachek, the CEO of New York Culture Club, who ditched the stock exchange for ...
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Episode 56
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33:15
Build It Series: Supercharging a Knitwear Production Empire Using Data with AM Group's Ahmed Altaf
Producing Knitwear in Karachi: Today's episode takes us to knitwear manufacturing straight from Karachi with Ahmed Altaf, CEO of AM Group, who shares his invaluable journey from academics to leading a family-run knitwear facility. Ga...
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Episode 55
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37:01
Build It Series: I'm Data-Optimising Fashion Manufacturing For Good with WiMetrix's Abdul Moiz Sajjad
We're back with a brand new series 'Build It', digging deep into how fashion tech startups are building their companies from the ground up. Join Peter as he sits down with Abdul Moiz Sajjad, CEO of WeMetrix, to explore how data can chan...
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Episode 54
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36:16
Applied Series Recap: My Top 5 Fashion Tech Takeaways with Peter Jeun Ho Tsang
Wrap Up with 5 Key Fashion Tech TakeawaysWe wrap up our 'Applied' podcast series with a reflective finale. Host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang tell us his top 5 key takeaways from navigating business growth, how to get through challenging times...
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Episode 53
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9:27
Applied Series: It is Possible to Turn Waste into Fabric with AltMat's Shikha Shah
Why Agricultural Waste?Shikha Shah, with her rare blend of scientific expertise and compassionate leadership, tells us her transition from consultancy to building biorefineries to turn plant waste into textiles usable for the fashion...
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Episode 52
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39:15
Applied Series: The (Im)Possible Formula of On-Demand Fashion With Dr. Kitty Yeung
Incubating Inside Microsoft's GarageWhen host, Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, first met Dr. Kitty Yeung she was a quantum physicist by day and a fashion technologist by night. Kitty's fashion tech journey was structured via a global Microsoft ...
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Episode 51
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43:37
Applied Series: Unlocking Efficiency with Digital Pattern Precision with N-Hega's Eliane Yeung
AI & Pattern CuttingWhilst the art of fashion pattern cutting is still rooted in flat drawings done by hand, artificial intelligence is bringing the practice into contemporary design and produce development processes. N-Heg...
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Episode 50
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26:36
Applied Series: Fashion Stores of the Future with Fit:Match, Cappasity & ShowcaseX
Building Tech Better Retail ExperiencesJoining Von N. Ruzive and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, co-authors of Fashion Tech Applied, are Hillary Littleton, Head of Marketing at FIT:MATCH, Elina Minina, CBDO at Cappasity, and Charles Wilde...
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Episode 49
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33:17
Applied Series: Creating Digital Storytelling Magic for Luxury Fashion with Holition's CEO Jonathan Chippindale
Turning Ideas into Fashion Storytelling DiamondsJonathan Chippindale made his luxury marketing name in the world of fine jewellery at De Beers prior to launching his creative tech studio, Holition. The magnetic pull of Jonathan...
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Episode 48
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48:04
Applied Series: Engineering Circular Fashion by Disassembling Products with Resortecs' Cédric Vanhoeck
From Engineering to FashionImagine a world where your clothes are as easy to recycle as paper and plastic. That's the vision Cedric Vanhoeck, founder and CEO of Resortecs, is turning into reality, and in this latest episode, host Pet...
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Episode 47
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31:14
Applied Series: What It Means to be the World's #1 Fashion School with John Lau at London College of Fashion
Becoming Dean of Academic Strategy at London College of Fashion The North West of England is not necessarily associated with fashion, but the small town where John Lau grew up is where it all began. From reading his first copie...
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Episode 46
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36:45
Applied Series: My Virtual Fashion Stores Increase Consumer Engagement 10x with Emperia's CEO Olga Dogadkina
Building Virtual Fashion StoresThe promise of an £80K deal that would never have happened until Olga met her technical co-founder on LinkedIn. Emperia was born. Specialists in building virtual stores for fashion brands, Olga and Pete...
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Episode 45
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33:34
Applied Series: Why It's So Hard to Solve Fashion's Fit Problem with 3DLOOK's Vadim Rogovskiy
Fashion's Big Fit ProblemThis episode features Vadim Rogovskiy, CEO of 3DLOOK, in which he takes us through how he discovered that fashion is the industry with the biggest pain to get body measurements and fit right. Starting f...
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Episode 44
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29:27
Applied Series: Recycling Fashion's Waste with Refact's Pauline Guesné
Turning Textile Waste into Recycled Fibres:Pauline Guesné, co-founder of Refact, once a corporate consultant now turned entrepreneur shares her story of a little French girl dreaming big. Those dreams developed into the desire to do ...
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Episode 43
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37:11
Applied Series: The Future of Fashion Design & Product Development with T-Fashion & Aware
Human Creativity & TechnologyJoining Von N. Ruzive and Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, co-authors of Fashion Tech Applied, are Yigit Alp Elmas CEO of T-Fashion and Koen Warmerdam co-founder of Aware, to discuss how tech is impacting the cre...
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Episode 42
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