Digital Design & Sustainable Futures The Sizing

Live Webinar: Digital Design & Sustainable Futures: The Sizing
First broadcast on March 11, 2022, at 09:00 am (SF)/12:00 pm (NYC)/5:00 pm (London)
In 2022 we started a new series of webinars dedicated to sustainability and digitalisation through the fashion supply chain.
In the second session, we will be discussing Sizing in the fashion industry with a group of pioneers and experts in the field.
Nicole Reader is CEO of Modern Mirror
Nicole Reader is the founder and CEO of Modern Mirror, a fashion technology business that is creating intelligent, virtual fit experiences for the luxury fashion industry. She began Modern Mirror in 2008 as a pioneer recognising the hybridisation of the fashion and technology industries. Over the next 14 years, Reader has become an expert in e-commerce, retail-and-technology experiences, virtual fittings, cyber security in the fashion space, brand investment strategies, and applied science deployment for ready-to-wear companies.
Muchaneta Kapfunde is The Editor-in-Chief of FashNerd.com
Muchaneta Kapfunde is the founding editor-in-chief of FashNerd.com, and one of the leading influencers writing about the merger of fashion with technology and the development of wearable technology. She has given talks at Premiere Vision, Munich Fabric Start and Pure London, and works as a fashion innovation consultant for fashion companies including LVMH Atelier. Additionally, Muchaneta is an active contributor to Vogue Business, is a senior contributor at The Interline and an associate lecturer at London College of Fashion, UAL.
Virgie Tovar is an author and contributor to Forbes.com
Virgie Tovar is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, and The Body Positive Journal. She has received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism for her advocacy for size inclusivity in the fashion industry and beyond and is a contributor to Forbes.com where she covers plus-size fashion news.
Dr. Lívia Pinent is the webinar moderator and is the Digital Professor of Research at The Digital Fashion Group Academy.
Lívia is an anthropologist and strategic communications specialist working on applied research focused on fashion and innovation. Her studies and research projects aim to better understand and communicate how innovation interacts in the fashion industry and how it impacts consumption and culture. Pinent holds a MA in Anthropology, a PhD in Communications Sciences and is the founder of the Fashion Culture Innovation Bureau, a consultancy working in the interaction of communication, marketing and research through case studies, interviews, articles, social media content and more. At The Digital Fashion Group Academy she brings a fresh approach to academic methodology in research applied to the reality of fashion design students, new technologies and digital fashion.