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Electric Runway
How Emerging Technologies are Transforming the $3 Trillion Fashion Industry Around the World
Amanda Cosco (Author)
9781394267088, Wiley
Hardback, published 25 August 2025
272 pages
23.1 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.476 kg
How technology is transforming the $3 trillion fashion industry From color-changing dresses to leather grown in labs, the fashions of the future are exciting, eccentric, and positively electric. Drawing from her decade of experience as a journalist at the front lines of the fashion industry, Amanda Cosco's Electric Runway: How Emerging Technologies are Transforming the $3 Trillion Fashion Industry Around the World delivers key insights on how the shift to digital is dramatically reshaping the dynamics of the global fashion landscape. Pulling from more than 100 interviews with CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, designers, and innovators, this book provides an up-close look at the transformation of apparel, retail, manufacturing, and consumer experiences. Cosco covers how technologies such as the smartphone, the Internet of Things, Automation, Spatial Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology are changing the way we design, manufacture, and shop for clothing. Readers will better grasp: Electric Runway: How Emerging Technologies are Transforming the $3 Trillion Fashion Industry Around the World is a must-read for any fashion enthusiast or industry professional seeking expert perspective on the cultural, social, and global implications of new technologies on one of our oldest trades.
Author’s Note vii Preface ix Introduction xix Chapter 1: The Smartphone 1 Chapter 2: The Internet of Things (IoT) 35 Chapter 3: Automation 67 Chapter 4: Spatial Computing 95 Chapter 5: Web 3.0 127 Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence 157 Chapter 7: Biotechnology 187 Conclusion 203 Notes 211 About the Author 239 Index 241
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
