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Video: Alexander Wang on Fashion as a user experience

When you design with the end user in mind you have to make sure it is experience driven. Alexander Wang sits down with Isabel Hilton to explore how the company has changed the way they show, design and produce their product and create campaigns that are both socially engaging and experiential. Source: Web Summit, YouTube.

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Video: Modernising traditional brands

Featuring Tommy Hilfiger CEO Daniel Grieder, Nadja Swarovski, Jim Lanzone from CBS & Karen Tso from CNBC. Source: Web Summit, YouTube.

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Web Summit 2018: Alexander Wang in search of a virtual muse

Lisbon - Alexander Wang is in search of a company that can build him a virtual muse, as the American designer dreams of having his own influencer who he can dress and have visit the various restaurants and shops he wants to promote to fans. That’s what Wang said on Wednesday at the world's largest internet technology congress Web Summit, which...

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Web Summit 2018: 'Soon there will be robots in our stores'

Lisbon - "In ten years time there will be robots in our stores, what they do there exactly, how they are used, I do not know yet, but they will be there, I'm sure." That's what Daniel Grieder, CEO of Tommy Hilfiger, said on Thursday at the internet technology congress Web Summit that took place last week in Lisbon. Grieger, a self-declared...

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Web Summit: The 'fashionization' of wearables

London - “How far away is the tipping point of wearables?” asked Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, the first commercialized smartwatch to hit the market during the Web Summit, the world’s largest tech conference in Dublin. “I think that we are close when it comes to size, price and technology. But we are still fighting the battle every day from 2...

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Web Summit: Bringing together ’two polar opposite industries’ Fashion & Tech

With 42,000 people attending from 134 countries around the globe, its safe to say that the Web Summit, held in Dublin, Ireland has grown to become the world’s largest technological conference. Attendees were able to explore 21 different summits covering numerous areas including E-commerce, Virtual Reality and Education for the past 3 days....