Based on years’ worth of reports, surveys, and analysis, we know how deeply embedded 3D has become into the way fashion works. As a software segment in its own right, the extended digital product creation (DPC) ecosystem has been on an upward trajectory, fuelled by goals to scale the userbase, increase the utility of individual digital assets, and transform the pipeline for creating physical products by using a growing ecosystem of digital tools.
This year, DPC solutions are not the only software category competing for those objectives. Generative AI’ “application era,” as defined in The Interline’s own AI Report 2025, is seemingly swallowing up a lot of the same air – making it clearer than ever that the digitisation of product creation is here to stay, but also prompting some redefinition of where and how the value of 3D is going to be achieved.
This is the backdrop for The Interline’s fourth annual DPC Report, which will be published in December 2025 as a capstone on the year, and which will build on the themes we’ve been tracking in 2022, 2023, and 2024 – with ongoing support from our multi-year parters at Fashion By Informa.
This time around, though, the report will carry the date of the coming year, since this report is more forward-looking than ever.
Through original brand stories, interviews, pipeline and process showcases, technology profiles, and analysis, The DPC Report 2026 will examine how 3D can provide the foundations for AI, how different objectives across content, simulation, and everything in between will influence the rollout and separation of different tools – and how the core vision for defining, designing, developing, and making products in 3D is more vital than ever.
As part of our commitment to commissioning real artists, and looking behind the scenes as real pipelines, The DPC Report 2026 will feature two new cover designs: one in fashion, demonstrating the ability of 3D to tell dynamic stories, even in still renders; and one in beauty, showcasing the demand for translating and safeguarding craft skills to a digital medium.
The DPC Report 2026 will be free to download and ungated when it launches this December. We already have brands, technology vendors, writers and more on board. But if your organisation plays a part in the digital product creation ecosystem and wants to add perspective, reach out at digital@theinterline.com.
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