Tech Powered Luxury

Ashley McDonnell
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Apr 10, 2023 • 44min

Talia Zoref: A Symphony of Art and Fashion

From Tel Aviv, Israel, Talia Zoref, a titan of fashion starts a poetic conversation between art and web3, business and fashion, veering to find the beauty in digital world.Talia's metaverse fashion community, goes by the name 'Eyes on Fashion' is an NFT collection curated by Talia, where independent artists nurture and transport their designs from Web2 to Web3. Collateral to her charged love for fashion illustration and blogging, Talia started by sketching celebrities Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid, illustrating in fashion shows including Chanel and Fendi, alongside getting her art represented in top fashion magazines, Vogue and Ellle. The artistic journey for Talia, is a part of the progress- interpretations free from inhibitions, unlocking the segue to understand the creative from the business, achieving the staccato in art to sharply segregate the persuasion of passion from the industry.Talia joins Ashley to discuss the beginnings of oeuvre d'art in Web3, signifying her innate love to constantly reinvent herself, real time connections with people, as Talia ruminates, 'your network is your networth.' Listen to the journey of art, a cluster of collaborations and a liberating path to learn everyday.Tech Powered Luxury is noted as one of the top fashion podcasts, top beauty podcasts and top luxury podcasts, as well as ranking globally as a top business, tech and entrepreneurship podcast. Tech Powered Luxury has ranked number one within the fashion and beauty podcast category in Ireland and Singapore, and number 3 within the fashion and beauty podcast category in India, as well as entering the Top 10 podcast charts internationally. This podcast is sponsored by Seoulista, a multi-award winning beauty brand, bringing innovative skincare expertise to the conversation. The TPL community benefits from 15% off skincare and supplements from Seoulista Beauty with the code TPL15.Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 3, 2023 • 50min

Matthew Drinkwater: Redefining Fashion Through Digital Disruption

A rebrand to the face of fashion, Matthew Drinkwater's digital disruption enforces exhibition of an array of new in the digital landscape: from retail to fashion and technology. A digital vanguard, Matthew started ten years back at London College of Fashion, at the Digital Innovation Lab. From rearranging 3D assets and augmented reality, to manufacturing immersive experiences, Matthew has established a virtual universe for digital designers and experiences to nurture and flourish in fashion, morphed by technology. As the digital metamorphosis of fashion has taken a seismic shift, Matthew continues to usher more possibilities within the realm of fashion. With unforgettable experiences alongside technology, digital renders and the stimulating arc of more generative AI, Mathew Drinkwater fundamentally plugs in the next changes in the digital lounge of fashion.With Ashley McDonnell, Matthew takes a deep dive in this vast spectrum of digital reckoning, with fashion as the catalyst tothe pathway of changes and hopes to see how the metaverse dreams unfold.Tech Powered Luxury is noted as one of the top fashion podcasts, top beauty podcasts and top luxury podcasts, as well as ranking globally as a top business, tech and entrepreneurship podcast. Tech Powered Luxury has ranked number one within the fashion and beauty podcast category in Ireland and Singapore, and number 3 within the fashion and beauty podcast category in India, as well as entering the Top 10 podcast charts internationally. This podcast is sponsored by Seoulista, a multi-award winning beauty brand, bringing innovative skincare expertise to the conversation. The TPL community benefits from 15% off skincare and supplements from Seoulista Beauty with the code TPL15.Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 29, 2023 • 39min

BONUS EPISODE! Anatomy of Culture in Web3 With Massimo Moretti

With the metaverse fashion week on the go, TPL brings a tech treat, a bonus episode with Massimo Moretti.Serial entrepreneur and AR culture curator, Massimo forges a connection in the web3 world, surrounded by co-creative commerce, and a creative community. Helping brands unveil culture dipped in luxury, Massimo’s company SIGNVM renders a digital display of high voltage AR and unfathomable allure of luxury generated from decadent brand heritage. Seeking manifold ways to creatively merge ownership, education and metaverse land, Massimo delivers reformed ideas of augmented reality.  A story of culture folded in experience, imparting unforgettable ways expression in the virtual landscape, explore Massimo (Add surname)take on culture imbibing alternate reality.Tech Powered Luxury is noted as one of the top fashion podcasts, top beauty podcasts and top luxury podcasts, as well as ranking globally as a top business, tech and entrepreneurship podcast. Tech Powered Luxury has ranked number one within the fashion and beauty podcast category in Ireland and Singapore, and number 3 within the fashion and beauty podcast category in India, as well as entering the Top 10 podcast charts internationally. This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 27, 2023 • 43min

Fashioning The Metaverse With Tangpoko

The fashion corridors of the metaverse have hosted array of talents. These creators offer their vision of technical expertise and creative prowess giving the metaverse a fashion makeover with their digital avatars. Here's where Tangpoko makes it rewarding, by matching talent to their destined digital space, since 2022, by the name Decentraland. As a proportion of fashion expands in the virtual reality, Tangpoko introduces, uplifts and explores identities in the metaverse. Decentraland, the locus of fashion exchange in the metaverse, has more than 100,000 visitors at Dollhouse, the metaverse influencer hot spot. With Dollhouse, Tangpoko immerses creators to deliver augmented impact in the alternate reality.Celebrate the next level of digital fashion expansion as Ashley McDonnell unpacks virtual personas with Tangpoko.Tech Powered Luxury is noted as one of the top fashion podcasts, top beauty podcasts and top luxury podcasts, as well as ranking globally as a top business, tech and entrepreneurship podcast. Tech Powered Luxury has ranked number one within the fashion and beauty podcast category in Ireland and Singapore, and number 3 within the fashion and beauty podcast category in India, as well as entering the Top 10 podcast charts internationally. This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 20, 2023 • 51min

Cameron James Wilson: Unfolding Virtual Identities & Reprising The Role of Beauty With AI

Tech Powered Luxury S2 strikes today. Lifting the lid on more digital disruptions dividing the fashion and tech industry, our S2 E1 with Cameron-James Wilson paves the path for more AI in fashion. Cameron James launched the world's first digital modeling agency. Since 2017, it has been an unquiet uproar on the internet. With the evaporating lines of digital and reality, The Diigitals by Cameron James brings the age of unbound space of future of luxury, furnished with 3D digital models. With more than 200k followers, fashion's virtual muse Shudu has augmented sales of Fenty Beauty being all over the internet for her immaculate skin, beguiling the grounds of Instagram. The Diigitals by Cameron mixes the virtual verticals with 3D fashion modeling, uprooting the limitations of fashion and culture to only be replaced with the force of digital expansion.Previously a photographer and proceeding to creating a 3D modeling agency arising from the interests of sci-fi movies, Cameron expresses his own views of beauty with The Diigitals.With Ashley, Cameron expresses his unfazed ideas about digital reprogramming in fashion and an unrestrained dialogue on digital discourse, yet to be explored in fashion.Tech Powered Luxury is noted as one of the top fashion podcasts, top beauty podcasts and top luxury podcasts, as well as ranking globally as a top business, tech and entrepreneurship podcast. Tech Powered Luxury has ranked number one within the fashion and beauty podcast category in Ireland and Singapore, and number 3 within the fashion and beauty podcast category in India, as well as entering the Top 10 podcast charts internationally. This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 13, 2023 • 49min

Gra Chocolates: A Sweet Taste of Luxury & Nuanced Exclusivity

In the ultimate episode of Tech Powered Luxury, we are joined by the Galway glory: Gráinne Mullins.Indulging in her love for food and assorted sweet concoctions, Gráinne pursude her love for food early. She was drawn into the wonders of the culinary world by 'feeling and doing' things, inherently absorbing her ingenious sensibility for the 'sweet tooth'. Imbued by charms of gourmet, Gráinne took a course in science to explore finer details of ingredients and at the same time worked in five-star restaurants to continue her passion for patisserie. This took a confrontational turn when she commenced her career working at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Aix-en-Provence, France, bringing back to Ireland the decadents of french crème de la crème. Gráinne launched her own chocolate brand online in 2020 under the eponymous name of 'Gra chocolates', innately pinning her loyalty for innovation in sweet world. 'Gra' ,Gráinne's nickname is directly adopted from the Irish lexical, that translates to 'love' in English.Today, Gráinne Mullins is one of the most celebrated chefs in Ireland as the founder of hand-painted chocolates, serving unforgettable taste of luxury and an indelible experience in the world of food, only making one longing to come back for more. This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 6, 2023 • 42min

Patti Brown: Enabling Business With Education

Patti Brown, Senior Executive Director of Academic Affairs & Program Delivery of MBA Programs at HEC, one of the leading business school in Europe, anchors on the significance of learning and listening to the business systems in luxury. As the chair of the education board, Patti understands the impending curves of luxury to familiarise her students to find their dreams in the domain of luxury. Elevating the role of education in learning business, Patti augments the essence of academia, experience building and ever-morphing ethos of luxury via partnerships across the globe, including Yale University, and by bringing game changers of fashion to the campus. Through the converging lines of culture and entertainment, Patti continues to push the boundaries of learning with real time courses from insiders to teach and share their emblematic experiences in their corporate course.With former HEC graduate and our founder, Ashley McDonnell, Patti Brown answers questions of tomorrow and tells a story of education, entertainment and luxury to get inside the mechanism of business, beyond the textbooks. This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 27, 2023 • 59min

Jessica Chapplow: Mastering The Art of AR, Advertising and Technology

Plugging in the business in luxury, Jessica has dominated the marketing and the advertising ground for years. After starting her career in journalism in Nottingham Trent University, Jessica listened to the voice inside her head to pursue brand management in fashion. Thereafter, Jessica’s career line followed an uncanny sparkling sequence of events, from working at Christian Dior to joining a digital agency and never looking back. Between the lines of marketing, technology, engineering and digital advertising, Jessica cemented her passion for the lesser known, in the world of augmented reality. Maneuvering through revolutionary technology, Jessica propelled a force in fashion, luxury and beauty through immaculate use of AI and blockchain. Formerly at Tiffany & Co and LVMH, Jessica today spearheads e-commerce at Partner's Reprise Digital. Besides, Jessica cascades her machine learning to the community as a volunteer first responder of the British Red Cross.With Ashley, Jessica explores the parallel dichotomies of luxury inflicted technology and the impact of AI between the grounds of immersive technologies and translating the manifold layers of tech to the rest of the world.This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 20, 2023 • 40min

A Testament to Luxury, Fashion & Knowledge: Danilo Venturi

Danilo Venturi carved his way to fashion, from music. Known for his transformational vision in education at Polimoda, as the director, Danilo also has a storied past of working in music, at La Perla and now also at Instituto Europe De Design. Danilo’s ten year background in fashion was a sequence of transitions between music, retail, studying political science and literature before he finally orchestrated multi disciplinary courses of fashion management. Danilo tailored fashion education from the universe of music to crystallize his results in the realm of fashion management and business for his course at Polimoda. Today, being at the powerful chair of Italy's educational infrastructure at Polimoda, in the city of renaissance, Florence, Danilo commemorates his lifelong love for luxury as an eternal student of knowledge and as the author of books including 'Brand Persona' and 'Momenting the Memento'.Ashley meets Danilo for a reminiscing conversation about the imploring educational ground of luxury, the new frontier of exclusivity and fashion being at the cusp of sustainability by imparting a panoramic view of the colliding worlds of fashion, education and technology.This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 13, 2023 • 1h 4min

Careers in Luxury : A Masterclass with Sophie Djordjevic, from Education and Internships to CVs and Landing that Dream Role

French luxury business maker and magnet, Sophie Djordjevic is remarked with inevitability. From working with international luxury houses and being at the zenith of e-business, Sophie has planted pillars of inspiration and indelible blueprint of development globally within the American French luxury conglomerate, COTY group. Sophie started early in France, holding her love for luxury and finding her direction within. Soon after her masters in the French Grande École SKEMA Business School, Sophie subsequently scored success with her roles in the pioneer french luxury houses, L'Oreal, Dior, Coty to Guerlain. Today, Sophie is also a board member of SKEMA Global Luxury and Management Masters, one of luxury's most covetable chairs empowering the future generation of leaders.With Tech Powered Luxury, Sophie Djordjevic joins Ashley in a tête-à-tête conversation of french savoir-faire, reading between the lines of luxury and fundamentally discusses on how to break into France's Grandes École system to secure one's primary step to the doorway of luxury.This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand. Listen to the episode to uncover a Seabody gift code. Tech Powered Luxury's social campaigns are powered by GladCloud, an AI-driven social marketing platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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