Can Shared Data Help Fix Fashion’s Climate Problem?
The Fashion Pact’s European Accelerator aims to bring consistency to supplier reporting, and to test whether standardised data can help fashion make real headway on emissions.
Podcast: What’s The Real Outlook For Digital Fashion?
Tackling some of the thorny language, and the open spaces, between the previous vision for digital fashion, and a more practical short-term reality, with the Founder of Digital Fashion Week.
How To Modernise Fabric Cutting Without Major Investments
The next wave of fashion manufacturing is intelligent, not invasive—leveraging data to make cutting rooms leaner, faster, and more sustainable.
Regulating Fast Fashion in a Cost-Conscious Market
France and Italy are tightening scrutiny on Shein and ultra-fast fashion, but consumer demand shows little signs of slowing in a price-driven market.
Testing The Boundaries Of Agentic AI
Microsoft’s recent experiment with agentic AI shows how autonomy still needs structure, while SAP’s updates and Amazon’s legal clash show an industry learning where the limits lie.
Podcast: What’s Changing In Design And Development Innovation?
After being dominated by digital product creation strategies, the cutting edge of design and development workflows is feeling the pull of artificial intelligence – and big questions are being asked about where the line gets drawn. Sean Lane, Director of Digital Innovation And AI at Vans joins the show to debate them.
Fashion’s Coal Addiction Is Blocking The Very Innovations That Could Save It
While the rest of the world embraces renewables, the fashion industry remains hopelessly besotted with coal. In doing so, it’s not only polluting the planet but also locking itself out of the very innovations that could make sustainability possible.
Fashion And Beauty’s Race To Lock In Recycled Inputs
Forward-thinking companies are shifting from published commitments to pre-emptive contracts designed to redress the balance between the materials they need and the availability of recycled and preferred feedstocks and inputs.
Recapping The CLO EU Summit 2025, In Context
Ahead of the launch of this year’s upcoming DPC Report, our Editor looks back at Europe’s largest gathering of CLO users and considers some of the key takeaways for the extended 3D / digital product creation community.
Podcast: Climate Transformation And The Circular Economy
A grounded perspective on environmental tipping points, the reality of recycling, and the gap between fashion’s linear growth economy and the vision for a viable circular alternative.
Beauty Origin Claims Under Review
Recent California cases show how ‘Made In USA’ origin labelling is becoming a compliance issue that depends on data accuracy and documentation.
How AI-Native Tooling For Design Operations Is Transforming Product Outcomes
With so many generative applications focused on supercharging creativity, using AI to solve the operational and alignment challenges of turning concepts into products could deliver a much bigger impact on the bottom line.
Lululemon’s ‘Dupe’ Trademark And The Evolving Language Of Brand Discovery
With “dupe” now entrenched in search and social discovery, brands like Lululemon and Aritzia are moving to protect the language that connects them to, and separates them from, counterfeit-adjacent culture.
Predictive Generative Models, And The Blend Between Motivation And Sales Material
Wellness, health, and beauty have always sold the target of a “better future you”. Predictive models and image generation can now bring that to life. But where will we find the line between using the results as personal motivation versus them being a sales catalyst?
Podcast: Championing DPC And Digital Education, With Christian L Harris
A timely debate with a leading name in the 3D community, covering everything from standardisation as a necessary precondition for automation, to the uncertain disruption that AI is potentially bringing to digital product creation – all through the prism of what one person’s journey can teach fashion professionals in general.
AI-Attributed Shortfalls In Search Traffic Are Everywhere, But They’re Disproportionately Affecting Fashion
The world’s biggest websites are starting to see pronounced visitor slumps year-over-year, and AI intercepting search traffic is being cited as a major culprit. But new research suggests that a web-wide trend is actually hitting online fashion even harder.
The DPC Report 2026 – Coming Soon
The Interline’s annual exploration of 3D and digital product creation, examining how core tools, ecosystem extensions, automations, and emerging 3D/AI workflows will influence fashion and beauty in 2026.
Automation Shock: The World’s Factory Continues To Pull Ahead
Executives are coming back from China describing factories that barely need people. Elsewhere, the ones that still do keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Between efficiency and exposure, is the industry edging toward a supply chain that runs without traditional human labour?
Podcast: Making Climate-Conscious Menswear Work Commercially
From transparency and take-back to 3D technology, Nick Reed, Founder of Neem London, talks about the practicalities of building a slow fashion business – and the need for great product to be at the front of it all.
Upcoming Webinar: Entering The AI Application Era
Join The Interline, Centric Software, and Browzwear on 30th October to analyse where AI stands in fashion today, to identify some of the use cases that will define its future, and to benchmark industry readiness.
The Hidden Cost of Carrying On
Holiday forecasts point to rising sales but falling sentiment. If demand softens, fashion and beauty keep producing, and the cost of waste is finally coming due.
Sora’s Popularity Is Rising, Even As The AI Backlash Builds
OpenAI’s social video experiment has drawn warnings from Hollywood and opt-outs from Disney, but its climb up the App Store suggests the debate around the future of generative social video is here to stay.
Upcoming Webinar: Is The Digital Materials Supply Chain Ready To Scale?
The Interline joins Cotton Incorporated, New Focus Textiles, and BAKERMAT on 23rd October to explore how prepared the fashion value chain is to scale the creation and use of digital materials.
From Counterfeits To Tariffs: Fashion’s Supply Chain Under Strain
A landmark judgement for luxury lands in the same week as deepening trade turbulence surfaces in Vietnam and Haiti.
OpenAI’s Initial Success With A Social AI Video App Demands Some Introspection From Fashion And Beauty
The fact that a new generative video platform from a major AI lab is an IP free-for-all should surprise nobody. The fact that it seems to be overcoming cultural inertia, and that it brings day-one tools for users to model themselves and their friends, asks some more unexpected questions.
Putting Cotton’s Value Chain In Focus
From innovation to sustainability to digital design, cotton’s journey connects the entire industry. A new content channel from CottonWorks highlights how those connections are defining the fabric of fashion today.
Could Software Systems Be Behind A Take-Off Moment For The Secondary Beauty Market?
Cultural momentum has carried the beauty resale story for a decade with no serious adoption, but technology is fast becoming the real hinge point that promises to make the category safe and therefore reinforce the commercial and cultural arguments in its favour.
Why Upstream Specialists Will Be Essential For Distinguishing Quality From Quantity In AI Outputs
According to the World Trade Organisation, AI could massively scale-up global trade in goods and services within fifteen years. But these results would come from discerning the difference between the volume of ‘work’ generated and the actual utility of it – a skillset that lies largely outside consumption markets.
Does Fashion’s Continued Reliance On Fossil Fuels Make It More Fragile?
New investigations into the industry’s upstream energy mix – in synthetic fibres and production – remind us that fossil fuels are not just a blindspot in disclosure, but also a potential point of failure.
If Influencer Marketing And Machines Communicate And Sell Fashion Best, What’s The Outlook For Brand Trust?
Influencer shops, AI concierges, and machine-made campaigns all point to a further decentralisation of selling power in fashion. But without a human as the lynchpin, how will markets decide where to assign trust?
This Week: Invisible Standards, Visible Tech
On the two poles of development, Google is writing the standards for AI transactions while Meta is unveiling the devices that might carry AI into daily life.
Breaking Down Barriers In Fashion
Lectra discusses how siloed systems create setbacks, and the value of integrated data flows.
The New Architecture of Beauty
The growing web of collaborations – from Nvidia with L’Oréal to Microsoft with Estée Lauder – reveals how tech now underpins the way beauty, plans, markets, and delivers.
Generating Is One Thing, Fixing And Implementing Is Another
Although they’re concentrated in the coding domain for now, the rise of the “AI cleanup specialist” is a reminder that generative AI can bring ideas to life, but actually implementing them demands expertise.
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