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Motif offers online courses to fill the skill gap in fashion

Apparel consultancy firm Alvanon is launching an e-learning platform, after finding out the fashion industry lacks professionals with technical skills in a worldwide survey. The new company, Motif.org, provides online courses for professionals interested in boosting their knowledge amidst a rapidly changing fashion landscape. With themes such as...

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Quiz - What is your HR department's biggest challenge?

Take FashionUnited's quiz to check your understanding on issues of staffing & skills in the fashion industry. What is the impact of onshoring on your local HR strategy, and what skills are in biggest shortage? Take this quiz to find out. Sign up for FashionUnited's newsletter to keep your ear to the ground. We will keep you informed on the...

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Skilled in Fashion? Infographic on closing the skills gap

The fashion industry faces a lack of suitable talents; previous decades of offshoring have created a skills gap, as universities stopped teaching technical and production skills. Along with the constant wave of new technologies, training for employees becomes a pressing need for businesses to stay relevant and competitive. But study reveals that...

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Free copy of 'The State of Skills in the Apparel Industry 2018'

New global survey highlights unprecedented skills crisis in fashion industry — 62% of respondents struggling to fill skilled roles creating ‘war for talent’ across supply chain Big fashion retailers, brands, manufacturers and vendors face a shortage of workers with key, specialised skills, according to new survey data from Alvanon.com Global...

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War for talent: fashion professionals lack skills, reveals worldwide study

The fashion industry is in dire need of professionals with technical skills, as universities stopped providing students with skills related to functions which are usually outsourced. Now, technologies such as 3D design, big data and artificial intelligence are widening the gap even more, because it is hard for academia to keep up with such a...

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Alvanon launches fashion innovation hub with Asian Pioneers

London - Global innovations firm Alvanon has partnered with former Editor-in-Chief of Apparel Monthly Jenny Liu, to launch a unique industry hub: The Shanghai Apparel Experience Center (SHAEC). The new hub aims to connect market pioneering technologies and sustainable innovations to help transform the fashion industry in China and the rest of...

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How would the plus-size men's wear market dress Santa Claus today?

London - The plus-size apparel market is growing, as more fashion retailers embrace body positivity among all sizes. High street retailers such as Missguided, Asos, and Mango have all launched collections for plus-size women, with body positive campaigns - but what about their male counterparts? Men are getting bigger, which is set to lead to a...

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'Alvanon's Fit Movement fits right into our Master Tailor Story'

Amsterdam - “Everything that happens within these doors is part of the world of tailors. This is where people come to discover the true potential they have at their fingertips or improve on the skills they already have,” explains Nannet van der Kleijn, board member of the Master Tailor Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The sprawling...

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BodiData and Alvanon partnership to highlight real shape and size of U.S. consumers

Silicon Valley-based technology company BodiData, Inc. has signed a strategic partnership with Alvanon to deliver both big data and analysis on the shape and size of the diverse and complex U.S. consumer population. Under the terms of the agreement Alvanon will integrate BodiData's body dimension data into its own demographic database. It will...

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Alvanon names Studio JUX to its mentorship programme

London - Alvanon has named sustainable fashion label Studio JUX to its Dr. Kenneth Wang mentorship program. Janice Wang, CEO of the global apparel business expert, officially appointed the Amsterdam-based label as the latest recipients of its two-year mentorship program. Founded in September 2011, the Dr. Kenneth Wang Mentorship Program works...

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May Fong joins Asia Pacific team at Alvanon

Global apparel business expert Alvanon has appointed May Fong to the position of senior consultant for the Asia Pacific region. The company recently announced the news in a press release. In her new role, Fong will meet with fashion business clients to identify their brand-building and business-growth challenges, explain Alvanon’s technical and...