Digital Fashion Week

What Digital Fashion Week does

Digital Fashion Week is a New York-headquartered, founder-led events and industry-intelligence platform dedicated to the intersection of fashion and emerging technologies. Founded in 2021 by Clare Tattersall, with operational leadership in Los Angeles through Fashion Techworks LLC co-founders Tom and Cindy Keefer, DFW convenes international fashion technology symposiums across six cities — New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Milan, and Taipei — plus complementary year-round programming including a Masterclass Series, a DFW Global App (iOS, Android, Roku), Industry Reports, and a Stripe-powered membership program. The platform serves fashion brands and designers, fashion-tech founders and innovators, design-software and PLM companies, academic institutions, investors, and media; attendee composition at recent events was 28% fashion and e-commerce, 42.9% founders and innovators, 5.1% academics, and 6.1% media and press. Core themes across programming are agentic AI in fashion, digital twins, virtual product development, predictive analytics, blockchain supply chain transparency, and fashion for social gaming and avatars.

The underlying technology stack is not proprietary AI but rather a curated distribution layer that aggregates partner platforms and tools (Epic Games' 3D pipelines, The Fabricant Intelligent Tools, Lectra, ALVALAN, Brilliantcrypto, Decentraland, Higgsfield AI) into masterclasses, panel sessions across seven editorial tracks, brand deep-dive sessions, innovation booths, and immersive runway shows. Monetization is diversified across four streams: event partnerships and sponsorships (quote-based), designer and exhibitor fees for runway shows and innovation booths, professional-services-style masterclass revenue, and a recurring subscription membership that bundles event access, giveaways, reports, Web3 community access, and partner discounts such as IAMBIC bespoke footwear. An advisory board spanning Epic Games, London College of Fashion's Fashion Innovation Agency, FIT's Design and Technology Lab, Outlier Ventures, and Brinc anchors the company's positioning as a thought-leadership and deal-flow hub at the fashion-technology frontier.

Name

Digital Fashion Week

Legal name

Digital Fashion Week

Website

https://digitalfashionweek.nyc

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Digital Fashion Week is a New York–based, founder-led events and industry-intelligence platform that hosts international fashion-technology symposiums across six cities, alongside a masterclass series, global app, reports, and membership program serving fashion brands, fashion-tech founders, designers, investors, academics, and media.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fashion Technology Events & Industry Intelligence

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Consumer Lifestyle & Fashion Magazines (MPAJAEAA)

Keywords

• Fashion technology events
• Digital fashion platform
• Fashion tech symposium
• Digital fashion education
• Fashion industry conferences

Headquarters

HQ city

New York City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Event Partnerships and Sponsorship: Branded partnerships and sponsorships with fashion brands, technology companies, gaming platforms, and luxury fashion houses. Partners receive visibility through event activations, innovation booths, and brand deep dive sessions.
2. Designer and Exhibitor Fees: Revenue from designer applications for runway shows, digital fashion exhibitions, and innovation booth rentals for startups in fashion tech, gaming, XR, AR, styling, manufacturing, and digital textiles.
3. Masterclass Series: Educational workshops and masterclasses on AI agents in fashion, digital product creation, virtual world design, and fashion technology topics taught by industry experts.
4. Membership Program: Exclusive membership offering free access to events, giveaways, exclusive reports, live Q&A sessions, and partnership benefits including discounts from partners like IAMBIC.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Digital Fashion Week is a global fashion-technology platform that organizes international symposiums in NYC, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Milan, and Taipei featuring curated panels, brand deep dives, innovation booths, immersive retail galleries, and phygital runway shows. It complements these events with the Masterclass Series (educational workshops on agentic AI, digital twins, gaming fashion, and digital product creation), the DFW Global App for mobile/streaming access to recordings, industry research reports, and a recurring Membership Program with exclusive content and partner benefits.

Product overview

Digital Fashion Week operates as a global platform and industry intelligence hub dedicated to advancing fashion technology. The portfolio consists of international fashion technology symposiums (held in NYC, London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, and Taipei), the Masterclass Series covering AI agents, gaming fashion, and digital product development, the DFW Global App for mobile access to content, Industry Reports synthesizing fashion technology insights, and a Membership Program providing exclusive access to digital collections and member benefits. These offerings work together to convene brands, manufacturers, technologists, and researchers around fashion technology adoption.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Digital Fashion Week International Events International fashion-technology symposiums held in NYC, London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, and Taipei featuring 7 curated panel tracks, immersive retail galleries, brand deep dives, innovation booths for startups, and phygital runway shows, designed for fashion brands, fashion-tech startups, investors, academia, and media.
• Masterclass Series Educational workshops and classes on agentic AI for fashion, digital fashion design for gaming platforms (Roblox, Decentraland), AI communication prompting, digital product passports, and fashion across the gaming spectrum, taught by industry experts and accessible through the DFW Global App and live streaming on Roku.
• DFW Global App Mobile and streaming app available on Apple App Store, Google Play, and Roku channel, providing on-demand access to masterclass recordings, event streams, and exclusive digital fashion content to extend DFW programming beyond live events.
• Industry Reports and Insights Research publications synthesizing expert insights on agentic AI in fashion, digital fashion for social gaming and avatars, avatar design to physical manufacturing, running a fashion business with AI agents, and web3 fashion strategies, available to members and via specific masterclass series.
• DFW Membership Program Recurring subscription membership offered via Stripe-integrated sign-up providing free event access, giveaways, exclusive reports, live Q&A sessions, Web3 community access, member-only masterclasses, exclusive NFT claims, and partnership benefits including 15% discounts with IAMBIC and other fashion-tech brands.

Quantifiable outcome

• Event attendee composition: 28% fashion and e-commerce, 42.9% founders and innovators, 5.1% academics, 6.1% media and press
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability12 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Epic GamescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEpic Games partners with DFW to connect creators, brands, and communities with cutting-edge 3D pipelines, virtual worlds, and real-time creativity to reimagine the future of digital culture. Sallyann Houghton, Industry Manager Fashion/Apparel at Epic Games, serves on the DFW Advisory Board.
• The Fashion in Gaming AwardscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDFW partners with the Fashion in Gaming Awards to celebrate outstanding creativity and vision of digital fashion designers whose work is suited for gaming, promoting the future of fashion across gaming realms. Tracy Greenan serves as DFW Advisory Board member.
• The Digital Fashion GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Digital Fashion Group is a vital global community where digital fashion experts converge to share knowledge, learn, and inspire one another. Leslie Holden serves as DFW Advisory Board member and co-founder of The Digital Fashion Group.
• BrinccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrinc serves as a crucial forum for key opinion leaders to discuss innovation strategies and opportunities for both brands and startups while showcasing the latest technologies disrupting the fashion sector. Blake Lezenski serves as DFW Advisory Board member.
• Game Changing StylecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGame Changing Style partners with DFW to provide consultancy dedicated to fashion across the gaming spectrum, powered by leading fashion industry founders and gamers. Tracy Greenan serves as DFW Advisory Board member.
• Fashion Innovation Agency (LCF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Fashion Innovation Agency at London College of Fashion brings expertise in emerging technologies and immersive technologies (XR/MR/AR/VR). Matthew Drinkwater serves as Advisory Board member.
• FIT Design and Technology LabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe FIT DTech Lab is a public/private partnership engaging faculty and students solving industry problems using design and technology. Michael Ferraro serves as DFW Advisory Board member.
• Fashion Techworks LLCcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFashion Techworks provides resources for fashion, entertainment, and technology entrepreneurs in the DTLA Fashion District. Co-founders Tom Keefer and Cindy Keefer serve on DFW leadership team.
• Outlier VenturescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOutlier Ventures provides strategic partnership development in the global digital fashion network. Blake Lezenski serves as Partner Program Director at Outlier Ventures and DFW Advisory Board member.
• LectracoreTechnology or IntegrationLectra hosted NYC Panel Discussions on September 7, 2023 at their Innovation Center, providing venue and technology partnership for DFW educational content.
• IAMBICminorGTM or Marketing PartnerExclusive partnership providing DFW members with AI-tailored luxury footwear, 15% discount, and private virtual consultations with IAMBIC's biomedical engineering team.
• BrilliantcryptominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership around digital jewelry and gemstone design for gaming, with DFW hosting masterclasses and design competitions on the Brilliantcrypto platform.
• DecentralandminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for creating Decentraland wearables and hosting the DFW showroom during ArtWeek. Masterclass series teaches designers how to create wearables for the platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Highsnobiety: Highsnobiety is a fashion, culture, and technology media/events brand with significant presence at the fashion-tech and streetwear-gaming intersection. Comparable as a digital-first fashion media platform that increasingly covers AI fashion, digital fashion, and gaming fashion — overlapping DFW audience of creators and brand innovation teams.
• The Fabricant: The Fabricant is a digital fashion house that creates virtual garments and provides AI design tools (Intelligent Tools). Comparable as a digital fashion platform that also educates the market through masterclasses, and an active DFW partner — overlapping in audience and digital-fashion category.
• CLO3D: CLO3D is a leading 3D fashion design software platform used by apparel brands for virtual product development and digital twins. Comparable as a fashion-tech enabling technology frequently discussed at DFW events, with overlapping audience of fashion-tech founders and brand digital integration teams.

Direct peers

• Première Vision: Première Vision hosts major fashion industry trade events in Paris (and other cities) for fabric, manufacturing, and fashion-tech suppliers and brands. Directly comparable as a multi-city fashion industry events business with a strong Paris base and overlapping audience of designers, brands, and manufacturers.
• Decoded Fashion: Decoded Fashion was a pioneering fashion-tech events and content platform (summits in NYC, London, etc.) that convened fashion brands and technology companies. Closest historical peer to DFW in the fashion-tech event niche, though Decoded Fashion is now largely dormant and DFW has effectively filled its role.
• Global Fashion Agenda (Copenhagen Fashion Summit): Global Fashion Agenda organizes the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, a flagship fashion industry conference on sustainability and innovation. Directly comparable as a multi-stakeholder fashion industry convening platform with similar audience of brands, policymakers, and innovators.
• Business of Fashion: BoF is a fashion industry intelligence and media platform that hosts events (BoF Professional Summit, BoF China), publishes reports, and convenes brands and investors. Highly comparable to DFW in audience (luxury brand executives, founders, investors) and category (fashion industry thought leadership), though BoF is more media-led and less focused on fashion-tech specifically.
• The Digital Fashion Group: The Digital Fashion Group is a global community for digital fashion experts — convening, educating, and supporting digital fashion artists and technologists. Directly comparable audience (digital fashion creators, brands, technologists) and category (digital fashion community/events), and an active DFW partner.

Broad incumbents

• WWD (Women's Wear Daily): WWD is the legacy fashion industry trade publication covering brands, retail, and fashion business — with events, awards, and proprietary industry intelligence. Comparable as a broader fashion industry events/media incumbent that covers fashion technology among many topics.
• SXSW (South by Southwest): SXSW is a large-scale convergence festival (music, film, technology) with growing fashion and retail-tech programming. Comparable as a broad-convergence event that competes for sponsor attention and brand-experiential budgets with DFW, though DFW is much more fashion-specific.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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