Within the context of our data science research track, we have been involved a lot in fashion industry problems recently.
We already showcased some studies in fashion, for instance related to the analysis of the Milano Fashion Week events and their social media impact.
Starting this year, we are also involved in a research and innovation project called FaST – Fashion Sensing Technology. FaST is a project meant to design, experiment with, and implement an ICT tool that could monitor and analyze the activity of Italian emerging Fashion brands on social media. FaST aims at providing SMEs in the Fashion industry with the ability to better understand and measure the behaviours and opinions of consumers on social media, through the study of the interactions between brands and their communities, as well as support a brand’s strategic business decisions.
Given the importance of Fashion as an economic and cultural resource for Lombardy Region and Italy as a whole, the project aims at leveraging on the opportunities given by the creation of an hybrid value chain fashion-digital, in order to design a tool that would allow the codification of new organizational models. Furthermore, the project wants to promote process innovation within the fashion industry but with a customer-centric approach, as well as the design of services that could update and innovate both creative processes and the retail channel which, as of today, represents the core to the sustainability and competitiveness of brands and companies on domestic and international markets.
Within the project, we study social presence and digital / communication strategies of brands, and we will look for space for optimization. We are already crunching a lot of data and running large scale analyses on the topic. We will share our exciting results as soon as available!
Acknowledgements
FaST – Fashion Sensing Technology is a project supported by Regione Lombardia through the European Regional Development Fund (grant: “Smart Fashion & Design”). The project is being developed by Politecnico di Milano – Design dept. and Electronics, Information and Bioengineering dept. – in collaboration with Wemanage Group, Studio 4SIGMA, and CGNAL.
