Introducing Arxy Fashion OS, the winner of the Vogue Singapore x BMW Innovation Prize 2025

Building on its imaginative and prescient to have a good time Southeast Asia’s most forward-thinking creators, Vogue Singapore has as soon as once more joined forces with luxurious vehicle producer BMW for the fourth version of the Vogue Singapore x BMW Innovation Prize. Together with the Vogue Singapore Foundation, the programme continues to highlight entrepreneurs who harness innovation and creativity to resolve actual world challenges—mirroring BMW’s ethos of progress, a mirrored image of the model’s evolution in direction of clever design and sustainability.

Following a two-day boot camp and four-week mentorship part, finalists introduced their concepts earlier than a VIP jury comprising international leaders at the forefront of design and enterprise. Among them: Bettina von Schlippe, Vogue Singapore’s publisher-at-large; Alexis Bonhomme, founder of Trinity Asia; Natasha Damodaran, Vogue Singapore’s writer; Rose du Chatellier, senior director of strategic initiatives at Condé Nast; and Oliver Heilmer, head of design BMW compact class, Neue Klasse and BMW M.

The successful title this yr went to Arxy Fashion OS, the brainchild of founder Meng Ji, revealed throughout Vogue Singapore’s Next in Vogue Gala in October. Conceived “from the belief that technology should bring fashion closer to people, not further away”, Arxy is an AI-native immersive ecosystem that bridges creativity and commerce. Within its digital showrooms, manufacturers can showcase their worlds, consumers can uncover, and creativeness can thrive—“sustainably and intelligently”. In recognition of its achievement, Arxy acquired a $20,000 financial prize, a one-year membership at Singapore Fashion Council, and—courtesy of VisitMonaco—a four-night keep at Hôtel Metropole Monte-Carlo, full with dinner at the two Michelin-starred Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac.

Here, Ji displays on Arxy’s mission to construct a related vogue ecosystem, its position in empowering rising manufacturers, and the future of digital craftsmanship.

What impressed you to start out Arxy?
For years, I labored with manufacturers and creators round the world, and I stored seeing the similar drawback—a lot creativity, however such an previous system holding it again. That’s why I began Arxy, to construct a bridge between creativeness and trade. Because I consider the future of vogue isn’t simply digital—it’s human and alive in each pixel.

What makes Arxy totally different from others on this area?
Imagine strolling right into a world created by a model—an immersive expertise that feels as actual and as inspiring as stepping right into a wonderland, the place you actually perceive the DNA and storytelling of that model. That’s the world Arxy is constructing—not only a platform, however an ecosystem the place AI, creativity and human connection come collectively seamlessly, but with full transactional capabilities to streamline wholesale operations. Many instruments on this area give attention to digital catalogues or website-like ‘virtual showrooms’. But Arxy goes additional. We merge immersive environments with clever knowledge and actual commerce, turning discovery into an expertise and transactions into relationships. Under Arxy Fashion OS, we’re creating a set of eight AI-powered instruments designed to boost vogue’s whole B2B workflow, from knowledge processing to predictive intelligence. I believe what makes us totally different is that our know-how speaks the language of creativity. It interprets emotion, storytelling and tradition, serving to manufacturers and retailers actually perceive one another. For us, innovation is about how know-how can amplify the magnificence of human creativeness.

How does Arxy work on a day-to-day stage?
Every day at Arxy looks like constructing a bridge between creativity and know-how. It typically begins with a model—their imaginative and prescient and their merchandise. Some manufacturers desire a easy setup—quick, streamlined, able to go. Others select from our pre-designed templates and add their very own customisation to replicate their identification. And for mature manufacturers, the journey begins with a temper board, the place we co-create a totally bespoke digital atmosphere that captures the essence of their world. From there, all the pieces involves life: the area, lighting, textures, sounds, culminating in an interactive expertise all crafted to specific the model’s DNA and storytelling. Buyers from round the world can discover, work together and even place wholesale orders immediately, experiencing the model in a wholly recent and memorable means. Today, manufacturers can even profit from our AI-powered instruments like a centralised calendar intelligence system that, with only a few clicks, provides entry to key international promotional and gross sales occasion schedules six to 12 months forward, in addition to our Smart Linesheet device, which permits manufacturers to easily drag and drop their recordsdata and have all product knowledge robotically processed and uploaded inside minutes. Several different AI instruments might be developed in the coming months, all with the intention to assist manufacturers save money and time to allow them to give attention to what actually issues—their creativity.

How has successful the Vogue × BMW Innovation Prize modified your perspective for Arxy in phrases of scale and partnerships?
Winning the Vogue × BMW Innovation Prize has reshaped Arxy in so many optimistic methods: our technique, our focus and the way we see our position in the trade. It’s additionally validation that innovation in vogue can come from impartial creators who dare to rethink the system. The expertise opened new doorways, connecting us with visionary companions who share our perception that the future of vogue ought to be clever, immersive and sustainable. Most importantly, it helped us realise that Arxy is setting a brand new commonplace for the future of wholesale, the place designs, know-how and connection actually come collectively.

Can you share extra about the digital showroom Arxy did with native graduate designers for Next In Vogue?
Working with the native graduate designers for Next in Vogue has been such a rewarding expertise. Our senior vogue artist coached the designers via the digitisation workflow, serving to them obtain high-fidelity texturing and garment visualisation so their creations could possibly be faithfully represented in the digital area. The digital showcase began as a dialogue with Vogue Singapore. They shared a set of temper boards and, along with our surroundings and vogue artists, we developed a mock-up that developed via shut collaboration with the editorial staff. The result’s a stupendous, watercolour-style surreal atmosphere—like strolling inside a portray, with delicate clouds shifting throughout the sky and every garment displayed on mannequins as sculptural items of artwork. To full the expertise, a younger composer created unique ambient music that completely enhances the ambiance. It’s a showcase that celebrates creativeness—exhibiting how artwork and know-how intersect to present the subsequent technology of designers a stage worthy of their imaginative and prescient.

“Because the future of fashion isn’t about replacing the human touch—it’s about reimagining how deeply we can connect through it.”

BMW is understood for marrying type and efficiency with engineering. In that spirit, how do you concentrate on design and performance in what Arxy builds?
During the programme, I had the privilege of studying from Renzo Vitale, BMW’s inventive director of sound design. His masterclass and mentorship actually impressed me, giving me a complete new perspective on what we’d been lacking in our system: the concord between type and efficiency. That thought resonated deeply with me as a result of it’s precisely what I’ve been looking for since the starting. Just like in engineering, our design selections aren’t solely about magnificence—they’re about how that magnificence performs. Performance is important to the person expertise we create. We’re continually balancing the highest stage of visible constancy and storytelling with the want to keep up optimum efficiency, so that each person can really feel totally immersed with out compromise. Renzo’s phrases jogged my memory that know-how and artwork share the similar language—each are about the pursuit of excellent stability.

What had been some of the challenges you’ve confronted alongside the means and the way did you overcome them?
One of the greatest challenges has been constructing one thing this formidable as a bootstrapped firm. When you don’t have giant funding behind you, each choice issues. It forces you to be resourceful and deeply related to your function. Another main problem has been managing technical complexity and efficiency, particularly as we work with excessive constancy 3D environments that must run easily throughout totally different units and community situations. Finding that stability between visible excellence and accessibility took numerous checks, optimisations and late-night problem-solving. There had been moments of doubt and trial and error, however we learnt to see challenges as half of the inventive course of. What stored us going was the perception that we had been constructing one thing significant—one thing that would reshape the means the vogue trade connects and creates, and nurture younger inventive abilities by giving their rising manufacturers a good likelihood to achieve this powerful trade. And when ardour meets dedication, even the greatest challenges develop into chapters of progress.

How do you see Arxy’s work contributing to the wider ecosystem of design and innovation?
I see Arxy as half of a bigger motion—one which redefines how creativity, know-how and commerce come collectively. Our work contributes to the wider design and innovation ecosystem by constructing the digital infrastructure that connects concepts to alternatives. We’re serving to designers, manufacturers and establishments embrace a brand new means of working and if we will proceed to create instruments and environments that empower creativity and make entry to innovation extra democratic, then I consider we’re doing one thing actually significant for the future of vogue.

What are some of the classes you’ve learnt to this point in your journey constructing Arxy?
Looking again, the greatest lesson I’ve learnt is that imaginative and prescient alone isn’t sufficient, it wants focus, endurance and individuals who consider in it. Building Arxy from the floor up has taught me to stability creativeness with self-discipline, and imaginative and prescient with precision. We’ve learnt to decelerate when wanted, to refine what actually issues and to at all times construct with intention. And as we transfer ahead, that’s what is going to proceed to form us—staying curious and honest, and utilizing know-how to make the vogue world extra related and accessible for everybody.

What recommendation would you give to aspiring innovators that wish to navigate this area?
My recommendation could be: don’t anticipate the excellent second or the excellent sources. Start small, keep curious and maintain shifting ahead even when the path isn’t clear. Innovation doesn’t start with know-how; it begins with readability of function—realizing why you’re constructing one thing, what issues you’re making an attempt to resolve and who it’s for. In the age of AI, we’re witnessing a time when so many issues as soon as thought inconceivable are immediately inside attain. But know-how alone isn’t the reply—it’s the individuals who use it with intention and creativeness that make actual change occur. As a bootstrapped solo founder, I’ve learnt that focus, adaptability and resilience matter greater than sources. There might be challenges, however these challenges form your story, so encompass your self with individuals who consider in your imaginative and prescient. The future doesn’t belong to those that anticipate permission, it belongs to these courageous sufficient to create it.

Finally, what’s subsequent?
What’s subsequent for Arxy is about progress with function. We’re increasing globally, constructing new partnerships, creating our AI and immersive instruments, and setting a brand new commonplace for the wholesale trade. But greater than scale, it’s about impression—empowering creativity, supporting rising manufacturers, and shaping a future the place innovation and sustainability can actually coexist. We’ve solely simply begun and the subsequent chapter is about carrying this imaginative and prescient ahead—collectively. Because the future of vogue isn’t about changing the human contact—it’s about reimagining how deeply we will join via it.

The November difficulty of Vogue Singapore—themed ‘Nourish’—is on the market to pre-order on-line and on newsstands from 14 November.