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The Business of Fashion Podcast

What Fashion Can Learn from Music (Ian Rogers and Will.i.am) | BoF VOICES

The Business of Fashion Podcast

The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Will.i.am and LVMH chief digital officer Ian Rogers took the stage at #BoFVOICES 2016 to discuss how technology is transforming fashion and what the luxury business can learn from music’s digital disruption.

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0:00.0

I've been getting to know Will I am over the past few years.

0:04.0

He's a multi-faceted, multi-talented, polymathic kind of guy, and much more than just the frontman of the Black Eyed piece.

0:12.0

Last year, at Voices 2016, Will sat down with his old friend Ian Rogers to talk about what fashion can learn from music in Silicon Valley.

0:22.5

It was a completely unscripted, unexpected conversation, the kind of conversation you could

0:28.7

only have with someone like Will. I'm sure you'll enjoy all of his storytelling, his crazy

0:35.4

analogies, and the things that made our audience laugh out loud.

0:39.9

So here's a conversation from Voices 2016.

0:43.3

Just remember, Will and Ian spoke in front of a live audience.

0:47.5

And Will, shall I say, has a very colorful way with his words.

0:51.2

So please excuse any audio issues and any expletives.

0:55.0

What are you focused on?

0:57.0

Focus is a tricky word with Will. So that's a trick question actually.

1:03.0

I'm focused on what's coming. Just trying to decipher what the next form or form less it is.

1:13.6

I always, since I met you, before I met you, I've always been interested

1:20.6

at pattern matching, whether it's in making music or, you know, trying to get the barometer on pop culture.

1:30.3

And because of that, I'm just really, truly fascinated by technology, the folks that make it,

1:39.3

how it's changing the world and not change in the world in areas where technology is a void.

1:47.0

Oops. Yeah.

1:48.0

So I'm really interested in the coming.

1:52.0

But unlike most people who talk about all of this, you actually do a lot.

1:57.0

So what, I mean, you just, the headphones are around your neck. Tell us a little bit

2:02.8

about the space in LA, how you develop ideas, and then which ones of those ideas actually

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