Tech Powered Luxury

With the metaverse fashion week on the go, TPL brings a tech treat, a bonus episode with Massimo Moretti. Serial entrepreneur and AR culture curator, Massimo forges a connection in the web3 world, surrounded by co-creative commerce, and a creative community. Helping brands unveil culture dipped in luxury, Massimo’s company SIGNVM renders a digital display of high voltage AR and unfathomable allure...

The fashion corridors of the metaverse have hosted array of talents. These creators offer their vision of technical expertise and creative prowess giving the metaverse a fashion makeover with their digital avatars. Here's where Tangpoko makes it rewarding, by matching talent to their destined digital space, since 2022, by the name Decentraland. As a proportion of fashion expands in the virtual rea...

Tech Powered Luxury S2 strikes today. Lifting the lid on more digital disruptions dividing the fashion and tech industry, our S2 E1 with Cameron-James Wilson paves the path for more AI in fashion. Cameron James launched the world's first digital modeling agency. Since 2017, it has been an unquiet uproar on the internet. With the evaporating lines of digital and reality, The Diigitals by Cameron Ja...

In the ultimate episode of Tech Powered Luxury, we are joined by the Galway glory: Gráinne Mullins. Indulging in her love for food and assorted sweet concoctions, Gráinne pursude her love for food early. She was drawn into the wonders of the culinary world by 'feeling and doing' things, inherently absorbing her ingenious sensibility for the 'sweet tooth'. Imbued by charms of gourmet, Gráinne took...

Patti Brown, Senior Executive Director of Academic Affairs & Program Delivery of MBA Programs at HEC, one of the leading business school in Europe, anchors on the significance of learning and listening to the business systems in luxury. As the chair of the education board, Patti understands the impending curves of luxury to familiarise her students to find their dreams in the domain of luxury....

Plugging in the business in luxury, Jessica has dominated the marketing and the advertising ground for years. After starting her career in journalism in Nottingham Trent University, Jessica listened to the voice inside her head to pursue brand management in fashion. Thereafter, Jessica’s career line followed an uncanny sparkling sequence of events, from working at Christian Dior to joining a digit...

Danilo Venturi carved his way to fashion, from music. Known for his transformational vision in education at Polimoda, as the director, Danilo also has a storied past of working in music, at La Perla and now also at Instituto Europe De Design. Danilo’s ten year background in fashion was a sequence of transitions between music, retail, studying political science and literature before he finally orch...

French luxury business maker and magnet, Sophie Djordjevic is remarked with inevitability. From working with international luxury houses and being at the zenith of e-business, Sophie has planted pillars of inspiration and indelible blueprint of development globally within the American French luxury conglomerate, COTY group. Sophie started early in France, holding her love for luxury and finding he...

A pastiche rooted in Indian heritage and modern luxury, Shloka Narang’s The Silk Sneaker stepped up from a blogging business to retracing Indian culture for creating content. Furnished with international education and an avid planner, Shloka’s life detoured to emerge as a creative on Instagram. Born in Mumbai and adept to international environment, Shloka set her foot in London to study filmmaking...

Aoife's life is an open letter to the world, from the Irish countryside. Mapping fashion to new proportions, bequeathed with a sustainable future, Aoife McNamara imagined a classic combination of fashion, designed from nature. Since its launch in 2020, Aoife chose the planet behind business to create a deferential territory for Irish fashion at her thatched cottage in Adare, her invariable muse. A...

Ayurveda’s citadel of wisdom encountered the oblivion of western beauty, with Fable & Mane. From relics of yoga and galvanizing the conscious wellness with mind and body, Ayurveda has an underlying characteristic of achieving irrevocable balance in natural ways. Born from natural spread of plant based ingredients, instilling the salient power of hair care practice and an ode to storytime with...

Ryle is fashion rage. With vibrant dreams and injecting inclusivity in the fashion spectrum, Asian Arabic content creator is a beacon of newness and maximised possibilities. Content? Unmatched. Community? Unrivaled. Slay? Loud. Born in the Philippines, raised in Dubai, Ryle amassed a fashion following for her unique take on unexpected fashion choices, splendid flair with web3 and her collection of...

From a decade of filters, stories and tags to redressing the realm of GenZ, embedded with luxury, e-commerce and virtual marketplace, Snapchat is a story of success and inevitability. A promising application remarked with originality, a disrupting mechanism leveraged on augmented reality, Snapchat is a force of effect and a repertoire for digital marketing. Geoffrey Perez, Global head of luxury at...

In the defense of the space between local retailers and campaigns, paid social and social ads, meta ads and customised ads, GladCloud was born as a social media marketing force. A resilient player in the Web3 space, GladCloud aligns the visions of the brand with high-scale marketing strategies that empower, integrate and streamline the flow of digital advertising. Director of global operations of...

From the cradle of wine making in the south of France, organic, nested in natural processes and … alcohol free, French Bloom ushers an elevated experience in the world of wine. Born from the common thread of sharing precious moments sans alcohol in social soirees, founders Maggie Frerejean-Taittinger & Constance Jablonski responded to these compromising choices with French Bloom. Officially an...

From Park Avenue New York to the Bund in Shanghai, Kim Leitzes created PARKLU, the leading Chinese KOL - or key opinion leader - platform. The data driven tech company gives luxury brands the keys to unlocking the potential of influencer marketing in the world largest luxury market - China.  Discover what influencers you should be following today on Bilili, how Kim arrived in China without sp...

A burst of vision, acquired codes of hard luxury and imagination abound, Oliver Moingeon’s Exclusible has mastered the fashion metaverse. Carving a niche with NFTs, digital currency and a settling space for brands to extend their identities, Oliver fostered the change, with a modern interpretation of a digital fairy tale. Liberating luxury from the analog past, succumbing to creative verticals of...

Would you wear a lab-grown diamond? Chupi Sweetman-Durney, CEO of Chupi, tells us how she built a luxury jewellery company that is disrupting the industry and serving the modern customer. From carbon-neutral lab-grown diamonds to virtual try-on experiences and even looking towards the development of a virtual jewellery box of NFTs, Chupi is a luxury brand with innovation at its core. Discover Chup...

Digital, Web3 and national policies collide when it comes to continued growth in China. As Ashley Dudarenok, founder of three companies, Amazon's best selling author and a serial entrepreneur identifies the chief strategies behind the meteoric rise of luxury in China, she also recalls the state of literacy and culture as the key players to monitor success. Besides the sprawling transition, China c...

Helena McMahon’s skincare brand Seabody, sprouted in the marine momentum to ignite the latent role of seaweed. Morphing the magic from Irish coastlines to design a holistic wellness and luxury beauty brand, Helena formulates sustainability with peerless use of biotech, science and ocean power. Carbon negative with circular economy at the forefront, Helena fortifies her position as Director of Irel...

Meet the fashion data alchemist, Jonathan Siboni. Founder of Luxurynsight, Jonathan radically led change by providing brands with technology powered data insights and designed the blueprint for luxury brands to launch in China. Leveraging on the role of culture in luxury, supported by a distinguished advisory board, LuxurynSight responds to the desires of the fashion and beauty industries, with wh...

A transition that transforms a viral visual spectacle to an addictive content, Marta Sierra does it before anyone else. In many ways, Spanish influencer and content creator Marta Sierra has shown the world through her Instagram and TikTok empire, how creativity charges fashion, luxury and travel. Recently recognized by Forbes as the ‘Fashion Influencer of the Year 2022’, Marta envisions to grow an...

Central Saint Martins and Goldsmith university graduates and digital couturiers, Alissa Aulbekova and Paula Sello, launched Auroboros to revolutionize the fashion space by creating a cohesive vision of science and technology crystallized with craftsmanship. Featured in BoF 500 list, Forbes 30 Under 30 and on Netflix series “The Future of Fashion” to mentor the next generation, Auroboros looks beyo...

The Tech Powered Luxury podcast that unpacks the evolving worlds of technology and luxury, by the prominent leaders of the industry. Hosted by luxury and tech executive, Ashley McDonnell, this podcast dives deep into the changes, shifts and the impacts of this cross-collaboration and transformation at large. From November 1st onwards, join us every Tuesday as we address the topics that define the...