Blockchain Startup Teams Up With London Designer To Transform Fashion Industry
A London fashion designer has collaborated with the Blockchain startup Provenance to give much-needed transparency to the consumer fashion industry. Martine Jarlgaard has created a digital token for every item of clothing she creates, allowing full details of its history from before creation to the point of sale to be visible to the customer. “Technology will be what helps to reconnect us to the people and the places involved, and that information will increase consumer expectations, which will put more pressure on the big companies,” she told Forbes in an interview this week. A trial of....
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