The Interline will be taking a festive break from 23rd December to 5th January. During that time, we won’t be releasing any new content, but the team will be available between Christmas and New Year for strategic and support questions.
For fashion as a whole, 2025 has been largely defined by external factors. From tariffs and trade shifts, to consumer spending and the will-they-won’t-they dance of regulations, the industry has spent the last twelve months responding to changes in the outward environment.
While none of those factors will be gone in 2026, technology is set to become an even more important lever for brands, retailers, suppliers, and the extended ecosystem of partners to pull in order to get ahead of them – shifting from the back to the front foot where key metrics like profitability, risk, expansion, content, and engagement are concerned.
The Interline will be covering all these things, and more, in 2026. When our team returns in early January, we’ll be releasing our look-forward at the technology trends that are likely to define the year, as well as publishing new weekly podcast episodes, collaborations, interviews, and plenty more.
As the year carries on, we’ll release a new Directory initiative, our AI Report 2026 in the springtime, along with other new reports and analyses over the course of the year. We’ll continue to analyse the top headlines from across fashion and technology every week, and we intend to continue to fund artists and writers throughout the year, as well as taking a pragmatic viewpoint on where AI can fit into our own operations – as well as into wider industry strategy.
As always, we want to take a moment to thank our readers. Keeping The Interline as a completely free-to-read resource is not always easy, but everyone here is a firm believer in both the open web and in the idea that knowledge and inspiration should be as widely-distributed as possible, to help create the best-informed fashion industry, with the right scaffolding to make intelligent choices about technology.
