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14.02.2023
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Vogue x Snapchat: Redefining the Body

Where Design Meets Technology With Matthew Drinkwater

An evening with world renowned expert in emerging technologies, Matthew Drinkwater, as he takes us on a journey into the innovations that will lead the fashion industry into a new era.

From immersive technologies to digital humans, generative AI and beyond, experience an understanding of the myriad of opportunities ahead.

Where Design Meets Technology (voguexsnapchat.com)

 

MASTERCLASS 

Experiencing Fashion in a 3D World: From Physical to Virtual With The Fashion Innovation Agency

FIA’s Costas Kazantzis and Moin Roberts-Islam host this practical workshop demonstrating how to turn physical fashion garments into digital assets.

Experiencing Fashion in a 3D World: From Physical to Virtual (voguexsnapchat.com)

02.08.2022
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Vogue Business: The Real Metaverse

 

Matthew Drinkwater was interviewed by Vogue Business to discuss FIA’s latest project: Creating a Physical Metaverse, which explores physical spaces hosting metaverse events, such as the Outernet’s new space featuring 60 foot LED screens.  

 

“All of the focus of the metaverse has been on purely virtual experiences, such as gaming and virtual reality,” Drinkwater says. “But this [hybrid experience] is what we were working towards. It’s what the metaverse is going to be about. Digital content all around us all of the time.” 

 

Read the full story here: The Real Metaverse | Vogue Busines

24.05.2021
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FIA Featured: Snapchat boosts AR try-on tools

Matthew Drinkwater, Head of FIA, is featured in Vogue Business discussing Snapchat’s new virtual try-on.

“A year after it first experimented with augmented reality shoe try-on, Snap Inc. is adding more virtual try-on and AR shopping features as it races to lure fashion and beauty brands selling online away from Instagram and Facebook. Farfetch and Prada are pouncing.” Maghan McDowell, Vogue Business

READ THE FULL ARTICLE here: https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/snapchat-boosts-ar-try-on-tools-farfetch-prada-dive-in

08.12.2020
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Forbes Feature: Digital Storytelling Evolves

The Fashion Innovation Agency are featured in Forbes after initiating a collaboration between AnamXR and Pangaia to produce a virtual, immersive experience for Pangaia’s new FLWRDWN collection.

“We’re doing this to create a visual but also metaphorical connection to the products [and their holistic discovery], because people have become extremely disconnected to the source of their garments. As the scientific adage goes, you don’t teach a lesson, you set up the conditions to elicit a meaningful experience. There has to be a degree of self-discovery.” – Dr. Amanda Parkes, an acclaimed bio-media designer, fashion technologist and Pangaia’s chief innovation officer.

Read the full article here: forbes.com/sites/katiebaron/2020/12/07/digital-storytelling-evolves-eco-innovators-pangaia-push-the-envelope-for-online-immersion/?sh=762384da60aa

 

06.08.2020
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Forbes: Finally, an immersive (XR) brand experience worth the hype

The Fabric of Reality, an immersive virtual fashion show in collaboration with RYOT studios and FIA, is featured in Forbes and quoted a ‘landmark event’ for fashion. 

High fashion is rupturing at the seams thanks to the shockwaves of covid-19, the pressures of sustainability and a new era of virtual appetites and innovations are throwing much of the sector’s tired-looking hierarchies and processes into disarray. Just over a month out from the usually sanctified September fashion weeks and mid-way through a mostly scrappy summer of digital substitute events, how to handle the catwalk show (do we still need them? If so, in what formats? And who’s the audience/s now anyway?) Has underscored much of the wrangling. It’s made last week’s immersive ‘fabric of reality’ XR initiative – three interactive ‘rooms’ within an individually navigable virtual museum, experienced simultaneously by 150 people in VR and 100k+ more via live-stream – a potentially landmark event. – Katie Baron, Senior Contributor of Forbes 

“What’s often been missing from these types of fashion experiences is that they are largely video-based and still feel very 2d, lacking interaction or presence. Here, you’re totally immersed, it’s a very visceral and powerful method of communicating with an audience.”– Moin Roberts-Islam, Technology Development Manager of FIA 

READ THE FULL ARTICLE here: https://www.Forbes.Com/sites/katiebaron/2020/08/04/the-fabric-of-reality-finally-an-immersive-xr-brand-experience-worth-the-hype/#4fa6f81765f9 

 

29.06.2020
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Coming soon: The Fabric of Reality

RYOT Studios and the FIA present The Fabric of Reality, an immersive virtual fashion show experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. 

“If we mix the physical with digital content, there’s an opportunity for jaw-dropping, amazing moments shared across multiple platforms. There are so many opportunities for brands to experiment and communicate differently,”– Matthew Drinkwater, Head of FIA 

“I firmly believe we’re moving from a digital content world to a virtual experiences world. Immersive storytelling is a great way of engaging the audience – they remember it as if they experienced it, not as if they watched it.” – Sam Field, Creative Tech & Innovation at RYOT Studios 

The Fabric of Reality will be shown live on 29 July, 2020 at 6:30pm BST within The Museum of Other Realities