Ivyrevel is a clothes brand founded in 2003, which officially is a part of H&M global business group since 2016. It was co-founded by popular Swedish fashion blogger Kenza Zouten Subosic, and have been heavily promoted by her through social media channels as well as through her blog (kenzas.se). Ivyrevel already has been on the market for several seasons, but last year the founders have decided to offer a brand new and innovative relaunch that will turn it into the first truly digital fashion house. H&M is a major investor to offer strategic and production support. Another partner is Paypal, which is supposed to provide advisory services on payment and distribution issues.
Ivyrevel clothes are inspired by urban contrasts, strong independent women and by the contemporary now. Its style is polished, loud and extrovert with feminine silhouettes and ample amounts of attitude. It follows fashion trends and continuously releases new items with no pause, by reacting to latest fashion drifts.
The creators of the brand say that their site is their palace, their home, their one and only shopping window to the world. Consequently, you can find Ivyrevel clothes only online and there is no single physical store or a showroom to come try the clothes. Nevertheless, Ivyrevel ships worldwide and their clothes can be bought through many various e-commerce platforms, such as German Zalando or British Asos, and with the support of such a giant as H&M, it makes Ivyrevel a recognizable brand all around the world.
Using the hype around the brand relaunch, Ivyrevel announced that they are partnering with Google to bring couture into the digital age with the Data Dress – a personalized dress designed using a smartphone app developed by Ivyrevel and Google. The app tracks each user’s activity and lifestyle which is then interpreted into a truly unique, and on-trend, custom-made Ivyrevel dress.
”It’s such an exciting moment. We’re about to change the fashion industry by bringing the customer’s personality into the design process through data technology. To get a unique piece of clothing today you need to either buy a custom-made design piece or design it yourself, but that is generally not an affordable option and most people lack the design experience. The Data Dress enables women around the world to order a dress made entirely for them, that reflects the way they live their lives,” says Aleksandar Subosic, co-founder of Ivyrevel.
You ask how does it actually work? At 2016 Google I/O developer conference, Google introduced a new Awareness API that would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were, what you were doing, what’s nearby, and even the weather, in order to more intelligently react to your current situation. In 2017 Google introduced a new application that’s taking advantage of this sort of data in order to…design you a dress.
Through a forthcoming Android application, users can consent to have their activity and lifestyle data monitored – by way of the Awareness API – to create their own, personalized, custom-made dress that’s ordered through the app. Now it is officially called the “Data Dress,” says Google.
The idea is that you can translate your life and your lifestyle into a unique, wearable look sounds promising, but in reality, the resulting creation mainly displays your routes and routines as lines on a map, sans street labels and points of interest. But who would like to wear a roadmap?
Creators have promised that the app will release later this year, but still, there are no signs of progress.
Sources:
ivyrevel.com
kenzas.se
techcrunch.com
fashionpost.pl
Mariia,
I think that this new technology looks very promising. Indeed, it offers new and varied possibilities for everyday fashion for everyone. Nevertheless, I think that this technology will be hard to develop with the pressure of big fashion groups that have already begun to invest in research on technology link to the fashion. In addition, luxury fashion is also investing in it with a high motivation and is counting on this investment to keep its high status. This new technology would have to function as a platform like Zalando or Answear where several brands would meet and should not cooperate only with the H & M group.