Creative Tech New York 2025

Interactive, Smart, Sustainable, Multi-Sensory, Blockchain-Secured, and Fun to Wear. 

Context: 
Everyone wears clothes, but the form, function, and style of most clothing today hasn’t changed much for decades. That’s starting to shift. 

From smart fabrics and wearable tech to 3D printing, digital avatars, and AI-generated design, apparel can be a platform for data, expression, utility, and sustainability. 

Covering: 
How emerging technologies are reshaping the $1.5 trillion fashion and apparel industry. The major product categories, innovation trends, and massive white space for investment and disruption across design, manufacturing, marketing, and digital experiences. 

• The scale and pain points of today’s global apparel industry, and where technology is unlocking opportunity. 

• The industry’s segments: apparel, fast and semi-fast fashion, luxury, lifestyle, and digital products. 

• How innovations in materials, robotics, and additive manufacturing are enabling new products, transforming production, and shifting supply chains. 

• How personalization and AI are changing design and marketing, digital try-ons, AI-generated collections, and enabling everyone to be a designer. 

• Fashion x Gaming: digital skins, avatar twins, NFTs, and virtual wardrobes. 

• The potential of wearable wellness, hands-free screen-free, and the truly new. 

• What clothes can do? Examples of speculative but feasible concepts for what our clothes might do in the near future, and the business models to support them.