October 2025

6 minute read

Automation Shock: The World’s Factory Continues To Pull Ahead

byThe Interline
October 17, 2025
421 views

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?

22 minute read

PPodcast

Podcast: Making Climate-Conscious Menswear Work Commercially

byBen Hanson
October 17, 2025
254 views

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.

2 minute read

AArtificial Intelligence

Upcoming Webinar: Entering The AI Application Era

byThe Interline
October 16, 2025
270 views

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.

5 minute read

FFashion Technology News

The Hidden Cost of Carrying On

byThe Interline
October 14, 2025
272 views

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.

4 minute read

FFashion Technology News

Sora’s Popularity Is Rising, Even As The AI Backlash Builds

byThe Interline
October 10, 2025
543 views

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.

1 minute read

DDigital Product Creation

Upcoming Webinar: Is The Digital Materials Supply Chain Ready To Scale?

byLydia Mageean
October 9, 2025
321 views

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.

6 minute read

FFashion Technology News

From Counterfeits To Tariffs: Fashion’s Supply Chain Under Strain

byThe Interline
October 8, 2025
498 views

A landmark judgement for luxury lands in the same week as deepening trade turbulence surfaces in Vietnam and Haiti.

6 minute read

FFashion Technology News

OpenAI’s Initial Success With A Social AI Video App Demands Some Introspection From Fashion And Beauty

byThe Interline
October 3, 2025
728 views

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.

3 minute read

MManufacturing

Putting Cotton’s Value Chain In Focus

byThe Interline X Cotton Incorporated
October 2, 2025
596 views

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.

4 minute read

BBeauty

Could Software Systems Be Behind A Take-Off Moment For The Secondary Beauty Market?

byDan Butt
October 1, 2025
610 views

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.