Thanks to the evolution of technology, recent years have seen some of the once exclusive fashion runways now become accessible via live streaming channels to the public. On the home front, the most popular and prominent example of this front-row access is none other than Digital Fashion Week Singapore 2015: Asia-Euro Exchange (DFW). 

Ever since its launch in 2012, the fashion event has showcased the collections of Singapore-based designers including Max Tan, Thomas Wee, and Pauline Ning, their runway shows streamed in real-time and on the video-sharing website, YouTube. Like what you see online too? Then shop the collection with DFW’s link which allows instant purchases off the runway, even as you take a look into the exciting backstage happenings, and watch the various post-show interviews with the designers.

This year, the fashion platform looks set to reach greater fashion heights and here’s why. Event attendees will be able to exchange fashion ideas and views with British fashion leaders, including Deejay and Model, Billie JD Porter, as well as Designer, Catherine Teatum, who will both be speaking at panel sessions addressing Asia’s growing fashion influence on 29 October. 

For the first time also, DFW will host a series of three fashion programmes in collaboration with Alliance française, adding that glamorous tinge of French savoir-faire. Here’s what to expect: Charlotte Cazal, Designer and Founder of French label ‘Demeure’, will be leading a workshop on wearable art pieces; there’ll be a screening of ‘Mademoiselle C’, a documentary on French Vogue’s former Editor-in-Chief, Carine Roitfeld; as well as Newspaper Correspondent, Corinne Mariaud, who’ll share more about reporting on fashion for the French newspaper, ‘Liberation’. The event will be held at the newly restored Capitol Theatre, from 29 October to 1 November.