Tech Powered Luxury

Ashley McDonnell
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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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Feb 6, 2023 • 42min

Reclaiming Indian Roots in The Changing Face of Luxury: Shloka Narang

A pastiche rooted in Indian heritage and modern luxury, Shloka Narang’s The Silk Sneaker stepped up from a blogging business to retracing Indian culture for creating content. Furnished with international education and an avid planner, Shloka’s life detoured to emerge as a creative on Instagram. Born in Mumbai and adept to international environment, Shloka set her foot in London to study filmmaking and screenwriting, realising her love for travel and fashion on the way. Her life spiraled when she began blogging that progress to express her love for style and embracing her love for ‘doing something for herself', rooted in India's celebrated fashion topography.For today’s episode, Ashley delves deep into the Indian landscape of fashion to explore why Indian craftsmanship is a preserved art and how fashion embedded with critical thinking is a vantage point for owning yourself and being a creative savant.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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Jan 31, 2023 • 39min

Allegory of Fashion, Nature and Ireland: Aoife McNamara

Aoife's life is an open letter to the world, from the Irish countryside. Mapping fashion to new proportions, bequeathed with a sustainable future, Aoife McNamara imagined a classic combination of fashion, designed from nature. Since its launch in 2020, Aoife chose the planet behind business to create a deferential territory for Irish fashion at her thatched cottage in Adare, her invariable muse. After completing her studies in Paris and New York, Aoife embraced her roots by launching her label online and instantly gained a loyal community before her physical store. Alongside being the ambassador of Clean Coast, Aoife renders her immaculate and responsible articulation of style encrusted with nature, in her cottage flagship store in Adare Main Street, Co. Limerick to give the visitors a kaleidoscopic taste of local Irish culture: art, ideas and stories.Recounting her journey and the meaningful drive with her ‘soil to soil process’, Aoife McNamara and Ashley draw the world to Ireland’s compelling concepts, brought to life from the shores.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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Jan 23, 2023 • 50min

Behind Akash’s Bonafide Beauty Empire: Fable & Mane

Ayurveda’s citadel of wisdom encountered the oblivion of western beauty, with Fable & Mane. From relics of yoga and galvanizing the conscious wellness with mind and body, Ayurveda has an underlying characteristic of achieving irrevocable balance in natural ways. Born from natural spread of plant based ingredients, instilling the salient power of hair care practice and an ode to storytime with hair massage, resides Fable and Mane, since 2020. Founder Akash Mehta, formerly at Dior and Esteé Lauder launched his eponymous brand alongside his sister Nikita Mehta, to transport the magic organic healing of ayurveda to the west and perhaps to break the myth behind the lustrous Asian hair.With Ashley, Akash reveals how he manifested the change, his vision for what is next in the branch of ayurvedic beauty and how to celebrate failure to curate success.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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Jan 16, 2023 • 49min

Ryle Tuvierra: Defining Diversity and Driving Dreams

Ryle is fashion rage. With vibrant dreams and injecting inclusivity in the fashion spectrum, Asian Arabic content creator is a beacon of newness and maximised possibilities. Content? Unmatched. Community? Unrivaled. Slay? Loud.Born in the Philippines, raised in Dubai, Ryle amassed a fashion following for her unique take on unexpected fashion choices, splendid flair with web3 and her collection of visions for her namesake label of jewelry and clothing. With the belief to bring together the singular and diverse talents and fostering a space where everyone fits in, Ryle comes to focus for her fierce embodiment of fashion, steering away from the canonical views.Join Ashley and Ryle in this week's episode to unveil what goes on behind the gram and fashion weeks and understand what's next in the game of digital fashion.This podcast is sponsored by Seabody, a Kerry-based tech-powered Beauty & Wellness brand.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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