The Interline

From a decades-old touchstone to a better-defined set of applications with a measurable ROI, the shape of fashion’s AI funnel is starting to become more concrete. But price increases potentially across the board could challenge the business case for some of it.

This week: two fashion companies forged at different stages of the early web, with very different contemporary fortunes, set out on wildly divergent paths, with a lot of AI in their saddlebags.