Kazuma Takahashi
Director & COO, ZOZO NEXT
Kazuma Takahashi is currently the Director and COO of ZOZO NEXT, a company within the ZOZO Group, which owns and operates ZOZOTOWN, Japan’s largest fashion e-commerce. In this role, he leads new business creation and drives R&D efforts at ZOZO RESEARCH.
Their mission at ZOZO NEXT is to ‘Create the Future of Fashion and the NEXT Big Thing.’
Their aim is to create a world where more people can enjoy fashion through imagining and solving users’ problems in the fashion domain with the power of technology. ZOZO NEXT conducts R&D at ZOZO RESEARCH, a research institute focused on quantifying and scientifically exploring fashion, and at MATRIX, an organization that aims to create new businesses for the ZOZO Group in six areas that will impact the future of fashion.
In 2022, a joint research project by ZOZO NEXT, The University of Tokyo, and Hosoo was awarded an Honorary Mention at the STARTS Prize 2022, sponsored by the European Commission. The project’s work was also exhibited in September of the same year at Ars Electronica, a media art festival held in Linz, Austria.