Exploring Personalisation using DPC from a Designers Perspective
Debbie McKeegan speaks to Lui Larocheski, has built a successful fashion brand in Brazil. They discuss fashion technology and its potential to offer personalised apparel, on-demand and the ongoing challenges.
Lui Larocheski trained as a fashion designer. Having built a successful fashion brand in Brazil and with an insider viewpoint - Lui recognised the urgent need to digitise of the fashion manufacturing system. He now specialises in the implementation of DPC (Digital Product Creation). Lui helps business to think digital first – changing their design culture and in doing so accelerating the application of digital technology across the supply chain. We talked with him about fashion tech and its potential to offer personalised apparel, on-demand. Where do you start and what are the challenges?”
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