2025: The Fashion Technology Rearview
An annual tradition: our team recaps and comments on the stories that defined each month of this year in fashion technology.
AI Shopping Is Done By Brute Force Today, But A Codified Standard Could Change Things In 2026
Holiday shopping numbers show AI playing an assistive role, but the coming year could see some sweeping changes in the readiness of eCommerce platforms for agentic use.
Building A Spatial Brain To Serve Up Digital Twins For The Agentic Web
To differentiate themselves, brands are seeking to put interactive 3D content and experiences in front of consumers at scale. This is placing a new emphasis on accelerating the AI-native toolchain for creating, distributing, automating, and monetising the digital twins at the heart of the next era of engagement.
Digital Product Creation Report 2026 – available now
Exclusive brand stories, cutting-edge process and pipeline profiles, top-flight executive interviews, and frank analysis of the AI-touched future of 3D and digital product creation for fashion and beauty.
AI-Native Bamboo Rose Empowers Retailers to Sell More and Work Less in 2025
TotalPLM™ adoption and company growth accelerates with dramatic platform value expansion.
In A World Of Vibe-Coding, The Real Vibes That Matter For Consumer-Facing Technology Are Still Cultural
Threading the needle on sloppy AI Christmas ads, metaverse funding cuts, and how perennial digital platforms like Fortnite are holding onto their relevance in fashion and beauty.
Is Fashion’s AI Infrastructure Ready For The Holidays?
Seamless frontend experiences hinge on a great deal of back-end complexity across the eCommerce tech estate. Add AI to the mix, and apply seasonal pressure, and the cracks in fashion and beauty’s infrastructure could start to show this year.
Black Friday 2025: Digital Dominates, And AI Takes Deeper Root
Early numbers point to a digital first weekend for the first big holiday spending event, along with the first signs of where AI is likely to actually fit into the discovery and purchasing journey.
Robots And AI Are Poised To Rearrange General Work. Will The Same Happen In Fashion?
A new McKinsey forecast, delivery bots, and humanoid robots in high-stakes situations together sketch some predictions for the next phase of automation - and its potential impact on fashion’s workflows.
A Cautious Holiday Season And The New Wave Of AI Shopping Features
New AI features are aiming to streamline the buying journey, though the bigger question is how much confidence shoppers bring into the 2025 US holiday season.
Replay: What Does 2026 Have In Store For Enterprise AI?
Real AI applications in fashion and beauty are gathering momentum, but what’s around the corner? And how prepared are those industries to meet it? A newly-opened webinar replay tackles the big questions.
Centric Software
Testing The Boundaries Of Agentic AI
Microsoft’s recent experiment with agentic AI shows how autonomy still needs structure, while SAP’s updates and Amazon’s legal clash show an industry learning where the limits lie.
Podcast: What’s Changing In Design And Development Innovation?
After being dominated by digital product creation strategies, the cutting edge of design and development workflows is feeling the pull of artificial intelligence - and big questions are being asked about where the line gets drawn. Sean Lane, Director of Digital Innovation And AI at Vans joins the show to debate them.
How AI-Native Tooling For Design Operations Is Transforming Product Outcomes
With so many generative applications focused on supercharging creativity, using AI to solve the operational and alignment challenges of turning concepts into products could deliver a much bigger impact on the bottom line.