{"id":102,"date":"2013-05-15T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2013\/05\/15\/iacde-boston-2013-continued\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:54:00","slug":"iacde-boston-2013-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/iacde-boston-2013-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"IACDE Boston 2013 Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

190 people from around the world attended the four day IACDE<\/a> event at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. Simultaneous translation was a must.<\/p>\n

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We had factory tours of the Jospeh Abboud<\/a> plant (shown) and the brand-new Southwick\/ Brooks Brothers<\/a> plant.<\/p>\n

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The president of the IACDE<\/a>, Joachim Hensch of Hugo Boss<\/a> opened a series of excellent presentations and discussions on e-retailing and digitizing fit.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Murphy, co-founder of True Fit Corporation<\/a>, explained how their analysis tools could help online shoppers find correct sizing more easily.<\/p>\n

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Thierry Moncouti\u00e9 of Lectra S.A.<\/a> talked about 3D visualization in garment creation. We are duly chastised with the statistic that 62% of consumers are unhappy with the fit of their clothes.<\/p>\n

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Alvanon presented some of their ideas about e-retailing and mass customization of fit.<\/p>\n

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A panel discussion, moderated by Karen Alberg Grossman, Editor in Chief of MR magazine<\/a> on the impact of e-retailing on brick-and-mortar retail stores. Contributing were Joseph Abboud himself, Roxy Starr, EVP of Design Development at Fast Fit 360<\/a>, Jared Blank, e-commerce at Tommy Hilfiger<\/a> and Raj Sareen, founder and CEO of Styku<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We started an outreach\/internship program last year to sponsor and encourage young talent, with participation from U.S.A., Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan. This young “task force” made some interesting recommendations during their presentation to the group, so we challenged them to implement some of these changes and gave them a surprise budget of $10,000 to work with.<\/p>\n

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Networking is always an important aspect of these gatherings.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Cohen of S. Cohen<\/a> speaks with Kyle Vucko of Indochino<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthony Sapienza with Joseph Abboud and Dragan Udovicic of Men’s Wearhouse<\/a><\/p>\n

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Roxy Starr with Adriano di Quinzio of Brioni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And our formal event is always fun. We cruised Boston harbor with dinner and a live band for dancing.<\/p>\n

Anthony Sapienza, Me, Dr. Heino Freudenberg of Freudenberg Group<\/a>, and Alan Abramowicz, co-president of Samuelsohn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Members of the Japanese chapter in beautiful traditional dress.<\/p>\n

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The Indochino boys, Heikal Gani and Kykle Vucko with me, Enza Sturino, owner of Intermforme Interlinings<\/a> and Roxy Starr.<\/p>\n

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I am thinking of putting an informal gathering together for people in Chicago who wight be interested in the group, which would include a possible way of gaining membership in the organization. If you are interested and in the Chicago are let me know. Of course, if you are located anywhere else in the world and are interested, I can certainly point you to a local chapter.<\/p>\n

These photos were all shot by David Fox, photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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