From AI To VR: The Tech Titans Defining Fashion’s Future
Two of the world’s biggest companies are set to redefine the possibilities of AI and AR/VR. How will their approach to different audiences affect fashion?
A Talent Exodus And The Limits Of AI: This Week in Fashion Technology
The push and pull of supply chain talent, and its impact on technology adoption. And why a simple TikTok trend is testing the limits of AI creativity in fashion.
Real Footprints, Virtual Friends, And Front-Runners in Enforcement: This Week In Fashion Technology
Cross-channel retail and personalisation possibilities, how technology is reshaping our wardrobes, the impact of calculating fashion consumers’ carbon footprint, France's position at the forefront of fashion and technology regulation, and more.
Chaos To Control: Strategies For Success In An Evolving Fashion Landscape
From the interrelationship of speed and resilience, to the risks of AI, we pick the top three cross-industry trends from McKinsey's State of Organizations 2023 report and consider how they might manifest in fashion’s near-term future.
Environment, Ethics, And A Cold Evaluation Of Human Endeavour: This Week In Fashion Technology
Sustainability is the watchword for marketing this week, but despite two milestone dates aligning, fashion still has a deeply troubled relationship with not just the environment, but the human beings who bring its products to market. What’s going to happen when AI forces the industry to confront that relationship much closer to home?
Introducing The Tech Hub: Find Your Fashion Technology Fit
Fashion technology solutions are more diverse, more capable, and more accessible than ever. But when there's something for everyone, how do you find the right fit for you?
Harmonising The Human And The High-Tech: This Week In Fashion Technology
With brands on the hunt for new ways to engage and delight consumers, two different approaches to product exploration and discovery present the possible faces of the future of fashion retail.
AI’s Constant Acceleration: This Week In Fashion Technology
From generated models to generated clothing collections, the pace of AI development has fashion, technology figures, and lawmakers on their collective toes, as the world wrestles with the question of what unchained AI might mean, and where the boundaries should lie.
Web3’s Smoke and Mirrors, Scrutiny in Funding’s Future, and AI’s Advancements: This Week In Fashion Technology
Will Web3 find itself trapped in a chasm between committed advocates and a largely disinterested mass market? Does the collapse of SVB herald a harder time for startups raising funding? And why does GPT-4 matter so much for enterprise users?
AI-Powered Filters, Robots on the Runway, and Science-Focused Fashion Startups: This Week In Fashion Technology
Fashion often takes big creative swings, but as the industry grows closer to the vanguard of transformative technologies and big cultural change, those experiments and investments could come with a different risk profile…
The Personal is Paramount: This Week In Fashion Technology
The fashion industry appears to have a renewed focus on the bespoke: from e-commerce websites, to ownership of images, to hyper-personalisation fashion tech companies. What is it that makes the personal so powerful?
When Technology Advances The Tangible: This Week In Fashion Technology
From cross-channel experiences to the sudden integration of AI into web and product search, technology is being woven into many areas of fashion all at once - with digital either quietly or overtly driving changes on both the outskirts of the industry, or right at its heart.
Commerce, Court Battles and ChatGPT: This Week In Fashion Technology
What does mobile shopping's market share mean for fashion's coping mechanism of markdowns? Where is the Metabirkin legal shakedown headed? And why are tech giants pulling back from the Metaverse in favour of AI?
Generative AI Is Here – Now Where Is It Taking Fashion?
In record time, a tranche of technology has matured enough to challenge the core principles of copyright and the essence of human creativity at the same time. How did generative AI create so much upheaval so quickly? And is it going to change anything fundamental about how digital workflows operate in fashion?