Amanda Rebecca Cosco

Technical textiles and engaging experiences: talking the future of retail with Kit and Ace’s JJ Wilson

August 10, 2016

Apparel companies are reinventing what it means to engage their customers. If lifestyle brands are about conveying an aesthetic…

September 25, 2015

Last week, all eyes were on King Street for TIFF, but around the corner from the celebrities and red carpets, a small fringe…

July 14, 2015

“Where did you get that?” It’s a question cooed at parties and in powder rooms, often asked by women, the tone edged…

July 13, 2015

For more than a hundred years, sports have been synthesizing fashion and function to offer garments that stretch the limits…

June 26, 2015

If you thought wearable technology was going to stop at the wrist, you had it all wrong. This morning, Montréal -based Hexoskin…

May 4, 2015

Inside the freshly painted walls of Ryerson’s new student centre, tables are littered with empty coffee cups. Parts of mannequins…

March 25, 2015

At the Frank & Oak retail store in Toronto, 20- and 30-something men wander in and out. Some are regulars, while others…

March 19, 2015

On Tuesday night, Ryerson University’s student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) hosted…

March 19, 2015

On Tuesday night, Ryerson University’s student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) hosted…

March 17, 2015

Once a year, our growing tech community clusters at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for Dx3, Canada’s largest digital…

January 30, 2015

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between fashion and technology— mostly in the context of wearables—but…

December 25, 2014

This year, I found myself in Toronto’s tech community. I don’t just mean “found myself” as in I stumbled…