April 10, 2021

Digital

Why Digital Fashion is the Next Frontier of NFTs

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By Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee

In a year where Bitcoin has entered its biggest bull market in history, NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are shaping up to be the hottest trend in cryptocurrency. Furthermore, thanks to a wide variety of use cases that integrate with real-world industries, NFTs are to become the catalyst for the kind of mainstream adoption that has so far eluded cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. 

For the most part, the 2021 NFT hype has been in the segment of digital art. For many years, digital artists had no way to protect their work from being copied and distributed all over

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The Digital Fashion House That Was an Early Adopter of NFTs

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  •  Digital fashion companies aim to disrupt and digitize high fashion
  • Insider spoke with a representative from The Fabricant, a digital fashion house.
  • The Fabricant works with major brands, and some of its designs have sold as NFTs.
  • See more stories on Insider’s business page.

Before NFTs were netting $69 million at Christie’s, The Fabricant was auctioning off a unique NFT at the 2019 Ethereum conference.

The sale of the Iridescence Dress, a digital-only piece of couture, approached $10,000 — a pretty penny for what was then a burgeoning market. 

Not all digital-fashion items are NFTs, explains Michaela Larosse, head of

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5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week

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MILAN (AP) — Five designers of African origin making their runway debuts opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday under the banner “We are Made in Italy,” having nurtured dreams deemed fanciful in their native countries and which faced considerable obstacles coming to fruition in their adopted Italy.

Joy Meribe, who is originally from Nigeria, started out working in Italy as a cultural mediator. Fabiola Manirakiza came to Italy as a child from Burundi and first trained as a doctor.

Morocco-born Karim Daoudi grew up in a shoe-making town in northern Italy and eventually took up the local craft. Pape Macodou

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Milan Designers Hit Reset Button During Digital Fashion Week | Business News

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By COLLEEN BARRY, AP Fashion Writer

MILAN (AP) — Fashion is off the hamster wheel, taking a deep breath that is allowing some freshness to seep into the once relentless cycle.

“It is so weird thinking about fashion, and the kind of hamster wheel of fashion, and how we never had a break and always complained about it,’’ Marc Jacobs said during a Milan Fashion Week video chat with Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons post-digital show. “And then you get a break, and you complain.”

Instead, he said, he was taking the moment to watch others, and be inspired.

Milan

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Kornit Digital Presents Kornit Fashion Week Tel Aviv 2021

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Benzinga

What Keystone Pipeline Cancellation Means For Crude-by-rail

President Joe Biden’s revocation of the March 2019 permit enabling the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will likely result in more crude-by-rail volumes, according to industry observers. But how much volumes will increase could largely depend on the price that heavy crude oil can fetch in the global market. “The cancellation of the Keystone pipeline project was inevitable once the government changed. Despite its merits or drawbacks, it is now a deflated political football,” said Barry Prentice, University of Manitoba supply chain management professor and former director of the Transport Institute

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This Designer Makes Brick and Mortar Pop for Digital Brands

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Hilary Koyfman.

Illustration: Gabrielle Pilloti Langdon. Images courtesy of Getty Images and Hilary Koyfman.

After working on the eye-popping spaces of women-centered co-working space The Wing (think earth tones, rounded edges, and soft pinks with pops of bold salmon and lots of terrazzo, conceived by designer Chiara de Rege), Hilary Koyfman has been tapped by digitally native brands to create in-person experiences. Koyfman’s recent clients in this space include telemedicine and healthcare company Parsley Health, influencer turned ready-to-wear label Something Navy, and maternity-wear brand Hatch.

The phenomenon of online-only brands opening brick-and-mortars is not new. According to research cited

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