September 17, 2023

Interview with Leslie Holden and Ann for Fashion United on the digital revolution

14 Mar 2023

Can the digital revolution enable a sustainable transformation of the industry?
 

In the light of the European Fashion Alliance conference at Gran Canaria, Fashion United sat down with Ann Claes and Leslie Holden from the Digital Fashion Group to discuss the digital revolution. 

The European Fashion Alliance (EFA) together with the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, organised the first Gran Canaria Summit last October 2022. Various leading fashion councils came together defining first actions that contribute to a mutual vision and mission in creating a better and more sustainable future in the fashion industry.

During the summit, the EFA organized a series of videos entailing different panel discussions or interviews stressing the driving points of sustainability, positive change, emerging talents shaping the future of the fashion industry.

In this video, Leslie Holden (Digital Fashion Group) and Ann Claes discuss how digitalization portrays a great opportunity for the fashion industry to become more sustainable in areas amongst production, the reselling market and narrative of the garment. Especially, manufacturing the garment can be significantly digitalized as some brands already do through the implementation of the digital product passport. Thus, reducing waste through sampling and extra travel costs, for example.

Watch the talk on the website of United Fashion

To the talk
September 16, 2023

Podcast de Tijd by Ann: Start to Metaverse

DRIES CEUPPENS May 12, 2022 

In the new podcast series ‘Start to Metaverse’ by De Tijd we look for the secrets of the metaverse. What is this new digital world? What can you do with it? Can you make money with it? In this new series we want to introduce everyone to the possibilities and pitfalls of the metaverse.

In the second episode of our podcast ‘Start to Metaverse’ we visit companies and entrepreneurs and listen to how they use the metaverse and what opportunities they see in it. You might even be surprised at how many companies are already working on the metaverse or developing the technology that would make a metaverse possible.

Find the podcast here

Our first stop is OneBonsai in Vilvoorde, where we talk to co-founder and managing partner Evarest Schoofs. OneBonsai creates training environments in virtual reality. Or as he puts it: ‘If it is big, expensive or dangerous, definitely consider virtual reality.’ Consider, for example, fire exercises or tactical intervention training for the police and the army.

We also talk to Ann Claes, co-founder of the digital fashion start-up MUTANI and one of the driving forces behind the web3 and metaverse conference WEB32. We learn how you can start with the metaverse as an entrepreneur and what the added value it can be for your company. According to Claes, it is clear: more and more players, including the big boys, are starting to experiment with the metaverse and this often involves considerable budgets.

September 13, 2023

Webinar with Ryan Gill and Ann, How to sell your work as NFT?

Ann Claes interviews Ryan Gill, founder and CEO of Crucible and Open Meta for Flanders DC.  In this webinar you will get insights on how to sell your work with NFT’s but also a good basic introduction to the concept. 

NFT’s – non fungible tokens- have been a hot topic in recent months. Is this the new way to trade digital creations and a new channel to promote your creations? Discover together with Ryan Gill in this webinar what NFT’s can mean for you and whether you as a creative entrepreneur should use it.

For this webinar Ann Claes goes into conversation with Ryan Gill. Ryan is the founder and CEO of Crucible, an open source software company looking to the future where you can use your digital identity across all platforms. His whole career he has been moving between technology and finance. Blockchain technology and crypto-economic design have no secrets to him. The perfect speaker to introduce us into this new universe. 

To the Flanders DC website
September 12, 2023

Webinar on AR and Metaverse for Flanders DC

Ann Claes is curator and moderator for this webinar on Augmented Reality and metaverse applications for the creative industry. 

During this webinar of Flanders DC we delve deeper into the technologies Augmented Reality (AR) with PLAYAR and metaverse with Howest. We show the possible influence and opportunities for the fashion and design sector using concrete examples. We also explain what the business potential can be per application, with a strong focus on experience and retail.

Bas Gezelle is one of the owners and strategy lead of AR agency PLAYAR. They develop augmented reality experiences for brands on all social media platforms and on the web. From stores that get an immersive experience, trying on virtual fashion to other products that come to life virtually.

Digital Transformation Valorization Manager Kurt Callewaert explains Howest’s initiatives and ambitions within Web3 and Metaverse.  Researcher and business consultant Jonathan Maes takes you through the immense potential of the metaverse using a real life use case.

Webinar in Dutch
September 7, 2023

ATV : Networking event Web32 fills Waagnatie with enthusiasts of the digital world

Web32 took place in the Waagnatie, a networking event for enthusiasts of everything to do with blockchains, NFTs and everything the digital world has to offer.
See the TV interview

ATV, Thursday, June 9, 2022

In addition to networking, you could listen to experts who are actively working on modern technology and digitalization. But the event was also for people who had never heard of things like the metaverse or virtual reality. You could get to know it all at interactive stands that appealed to the imagination.

Musketon & Dirty Belgium at work @ WEB32
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