The Interline

While some designers at New York Fashion Week fall/winter 2024 flaunted daring technological innovations in wearables, others advocated for sustainability as the focal point of the platform. The question remains: can these seemingly divergent approaches coexist going forward?

Fashion production relies on water, but risk management strategies have remained low on the industry’s agenda until now. And OpenAI - among others - sets expectations for watermarking and trust for a web being transformed by AI.

Across the aisle, the timing, scope, and nature of sustainability legislation is leaving almost nobody satisfied. And Apple releases its first new hardware and operating system in a long time, potentially unlocking a powerful way for fashion to bring digital content into physical spaces - if the device category actually takes off.