Will AI put a stop to fashion creativity? Are brands adopting a back-to-basics approach? Can make-do mindsets reignite people’s love for sustainability? In this part of the 2025 Expert Outlook series, we speak to three experts about how people are rethinking fashion experiences for a new age.
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Christopher Morency is the co-founder of EDITION, a strategy firm co-founded with Tom Garland. He previously held the role of chief brand officer at luxury group Vanguards and has a decade of experience as an editor at The Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety and as a consultant for Gucci, Dunhill, Marni, and Lego. Morency launched Highsnobiety’s first insights vertical, which included a white paper series with Boston Consulting Group and multiple other channels and tools that served as the foundation for the company’s next growth phases.
Elise Meng is the founder of LU~LI Research, an APAC-based research agency that studies youth culture and Gen Z communities. With 24 years of experience as a professional Gen Z herself, Elise unites young strategists, researchers, analysts, and culture-ists around Asia to work together with brands that are keen to tell the real story of who they are and what they stand for.
Born an amputee missing digits, Los Angeles-based Stephanie Thomas is a speaker, writer, disability stylist, and the founder of Cur8able, a B2B consulting business. In 2004, she created the award-winning Disability Fashion Styling System: Accessible, Smart, Fashionable, which guides her work. She is a 2021 Create & Cultivate Fashion 100 honoree, a 2019 Business of Fashion #BOF 500 fashion professional moving the global industry forward. Stephanie is also a celebrated TEDx speaker and an academic who teaches one annual fashion marketing college course. Featured in over 30 articles, she is a trusted voice at the intersection of fashion and disability.
J'Nae Phillips is a Senior Insights Editor at Canvas8. After an early career working in fashion and media, her passion for culture and journalism grew and she made the transition to writing and editing full-time. She specialises in fashion, trends, cultural shifts and all of the good stuff that gets people talking.
