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Exploring the ideas, people, and technologies shaping the future of fashion. Hosted by Peter Jeun Ho Tsang , each episode features founders, creatives, and industry leaders sharing real stories on entrepreneurship, innovation, and how tech is transforming the fashion business. Recorded by Beyond Form , the fashion innovation hub supporting ambitious founders build and grow fashion startups. Visit the BF website to learn more: beyondform.io . / podcast@beyondform.io

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December 30, 2025Episode 8043 min

2025 Fashion Tech Year in Review with Matt Astarita

This episode delves into the significant advancements in fashion tech in 2025, focusing on AI, digital fashion, and virtual try-on technology. With guest speaker Matt Astarita of Browzwear and host Peter Jeun Ho Tsang, they explore the acquisition of La La Land, the CaaStle fraud case, investor due diligence, the future of virtual try-on technology, and the evolution of digital fashion and product creation. The year 2025 marked a shift towards ecosystem integration and collaboration among fashion tech vendors.TakeawaysFashion tech in 2025 saw significant advancements in AI, digital fashion, and virtual try-on technology.The year 2025 marked a shift towards ecosystem integration and collaboration among fashion tech vendors.Chapters00:00 Fashion Tech Advancements in 202505:17 Acquisition of La La Land and AI Integration12:31 The Role of AI in Styling and Designing Outfits17:56 Investor Due Diligence in Fashion Tech27:48 Digital Fashion and Product Creation in 2025Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matt-astarita-07aa24a7/Find out about Browzwear: browzwear.com/

September 9, 2025Episode 7333 min

Underrepresented: Dorcas Payne on how to make Fashion Operations and Supply Chains Sexy

Dorcas Payne, a creative business consultant, shares her insights on building successful businesses in niche fashion markets. She emphasizes the critical role of operations and supply chain management in creative entrepreneurship, and the resilience needed to scale. For her, it’s crucial for emerging fashion talent to continuously listen to the feedback loop and use data to grow. Dorcas is on a mission to make supply chains sexy again, showing how strategic operations, thoughtful execution, and community-driven collaboration are just as exciting and essential as the designs on the runway.The Backbone of Creative Business- in this episode, we discuss why: • Operations matter – supply chain and operational strategy are the foundations of growth in the fashion industry. • Data is king – understanding customer behavior through feedback loops drives better decisions. • Scale down, execute excellence – resilience comes from doing fewer things at a higher standard. • Representation in entrepreneurship – systemic challenges for global ethnic majority founders demand allyship and collaboration.Connect with Dorcas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorcas-payne/--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

December 31, 2024Episode 6644 min

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 transformative impact on fashion design: Generative design tools are accelerating prototyping and reshaping brand identities, but raise ethical concerns about potentially replacing junior designers.• The sustainability challenge: AI could help align production with demand, potentially addressing the persistent issue of overproduction in the fashion industry.• Luxury brands and AI adoption: High-end fashion houses are cautiously approaching AI, grappling with complexities of clothing structures and concerns about AI-driven overconsumption.• Recommendation algorithms: Effectiveness varies between Europe and South Korea, prompting questions about enhancing consumer experiences versus fuelling overconsumption.• Regulatory landscape: EU policies like Extended Producer Responsibility aim to promote circularity, yet industry readiness is questionable, as evidenced by Renewcell's bankruptcy.• Future of luxury e-commerce: The resale market is gaining prominence, with potential lessons from South Korea's Kakao platform on integrating digital and physical retail experiences.Contact Yoobin on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yoobinjung--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

December 17, 2024Episode 6511 min

Build It Series Recap: My Top 5 Fashion Tech Takeaways 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 humans coming together. This episode highlights the passionate voices featured throughout the series and how the call for a strategic collaboration between brands, investors, and innovators to not only sustain emerging technologies but to also foster their growth. Connect with Peter on LinkedIn.--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

October 26, 2023Episode 2836 min

Dr. Huamin Wang: Why Style3D's Technical Research is Game-Changing for Digital Fashion

Dr. Huamin Wang's Research WorldPicture the future of fashion on your screens, where virtual garments behave just like the real ones, thanks to the power of 3D simulation and GPU computing. That's the intriguing world we're exploring with Dr. Huamin Wang, Chief Scientist at Style3D, a pioneer in the digital fashion software space. We traverse through a captivating conversation, discussing the technology shaping the industry, the landscape of the global fashion design software market, and how Huamin's journey of cutting-edge research has brought him to the forefront of digital fashion. Style3D's Next Technical Advancements in Digital FashionEver wondered how artificial intelligence could revolutionize the digital fashion industry? With Huamin we take a closer look at the precision required to translate real fabrics into digital ones, how GPUs are improving accuracy and speed in the creation of digital fashion 3D assets, and the role of motion capture and simulation algorithms for the human body to effectively render in the digital realm. Join us on this journey as we explore the path towards a more visually realistic and beautiful digital fashion landscape.Find out more about Style3D: linctex.comVisit the Style3D Linkedin PageThis episode has been created in paid partnership with Style3D.--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

October 10, 2023Episode 2531 min

Founder Series: Fashion Education Isn't Enough For Success with Beatrice Newman & MODE

Grappling Business as a Fashion Designer?As a creative, focusing on business issues can be daunting. This is how our guest speaker, Beatrice Newman, felt when her father urged her to take a business course after getting her degree in fashion design. However, she quickly learned that business and fashion are intertwined and gaining business skills as a designer can make or break a brand. Using her love for heritage techniques and crochet, she has successfully built her brand Korlekie to what it is today, being featured in numerous publications and dressing some of the biggest celebs in the world. Educating Future Fashion EntrepreneursBut she still had an itch to make a contribution to the fashion industry in a different way. Having grown in both business and fashion, she saw the vision of a course designed by a creative for creatives that took all of the things she learned from both school and entrepreneurship. In this episode we will take an in depth look at the things Beatrice has learned in her 10 plus years of entrepreneurship, and how that has helped her build her second venture, MODE, an online education platform. To learn more about MODE & sign up for your first course visit the MODE website. Get in contact with Beatrice: https://www.linkedin.com/in/korlekie--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

November 19, 2024Episode 6127 min

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 launch of Beyond Form Education, a groundbreaking initiative bridging the gap between academia and the fashion industry.Data-Driven Pivoting in the Fashion Industry:We discuss how data-driven decisions and user feedback are revolutionising fashion education in a post-pandemic world. As the desire for in-person experiences resurges, Peter and Beatrice share insights on creating a global learning canvas that spans entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, and design.Episode highlights:The power of adaptability in reshaping fashion education.Leveraging data and feedback for pivotal business decisions.Bridging the academia-industry gap in the fashion world.The importance of a supportive team and continuous learning.Exploring diverse opportunities beyond traditional fashion roles.Learn about Beyond Form Education: beyondform.io/educationConnect with Beatrice: linkedin.com/in/korlekie--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

October 3, 2023Episode 2426 min

Founder Series: Divorcing My Co-Founders with Arie Katz & RoundRack

Deciding When To Leave Your Regular Job & Start Your Own VentureHow do you know when the right time to leave is? Arie Katz has had to ask himself that question multiple times along his entrepreneurial journey. From making the decision to leave one start up to begin his own, to deciding when to part ways with multiple founders, his journey has been full of questions and taking risks to answer them. In this episode, we sit down with Arie and break down these tough decisions he’s made and how exactly he came to the conclusions that led him to continue towards developing his business, RoundRack. Pushing Through & Developing Round RackArie's journey is a testament to resilience and adaptability. Especially when your co-founding partners are not the people that you thought would be able to get the startup to the next stage. Arie unravels tough decisions that have forced him to pivot, realign, and evolve his business strategy, including parting ways with this co-founding team. Although now a solopreneur, Arie gives insights as to how he's making an impact with RoundRack, next generation materials, and sustainable fashion. To learn more and get in touch with RoundRack visit their website. Connect with Arie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariekatz--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

November 12, 2024Episode 6041 min

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 a unique perspective on the balancing act between maintaining cultural heritage and embracing the cutting-edge transformations shaping the garment industry today. Shahid challenges preconceived notions of Pakistani manufacturers and invites listeners to reconsider the opportunities in partnering with local manufacturers.Digitising a factory:Shahid discussed with Peter the complexities of managing a vertically integrated knitwear operation, a challenge compounded by external factors like fluctuating taxes and environmental limitations. He shares his insights on transitioning from instinctual decision-making to data-driven strategies, revealing the pivotal role of AI and technology in modernising Shahkam Industries. We explore the pressures and privileges of inheriting a family business, as well as running the group's private label One Retail, and Shahid's vision for preparing it for future generations with advanced technological integration.Find out more about Shackham Industries: www.shahkam.com--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io

April 16, 2024Episode 4933 min

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 Wilders, CEO at Showcase X, to discuss how retail experiences are being augmented by technologies. The panel unpacks how tech like 3D modeling, AI, and augmented reality are reconfiguring the online and offline retail experiences. From creating your digital twin to find that impeccably fitting garment, to the role of AR holograms in building consumer trust, and why it's a combination of tech that will be make better shopping journeys. Fashion Stores of the FutureThe panel shares invaluable insights from extensive R&D, proving that the success of tech in fashion hinges on solving genuine customer pain points and providing a shopping experience that feels personal and powerful. We confront the real struggles brands face, from budgetary restraints to the steep learning curve in harnessing these technologies. The episode looks into a future where your shopping journey might be led by your smartphone, and we unravel how generational shifts are leading brands to recalibrate for a tech-savvy audience. What does your fashion store of the future look like?This episode was originally recorded as a webinar on LinkedIn live.Find out out about guest speakers in the links below:Hillary Littleton from FIT:MATCHElina Minina from CappasityCharles Wilders from Showcase X*EXCLUSIVE OFFER* -20% discount for podcast listeners on the printed or ebook of Fashion Tech Applied. Purchase your copy at Springer here using the discount code*: 08cWPRlx1J7prE*Offer ends end June 2024--------The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a fashion tech innovation platform. We build, invest, and educate fashion tech entrepreneurs and startups. We’d love to hear your feedback, so let us know if you’d like to hear a certain topic. Email us at podcast@beyondform.io. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, check out our website: beyondform.io