Arm’s Length AI
An article for humans and a live, working toolkit for agents, to help both explore fashion's hesitant relationship with AI together, and to test themselves against it.
Live Shopping, MCP Intelligence, AI Sustainability And Lending Risks, And Mum Fragrances In Fortnite
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Is Fashion Missing The Post-Interface Market Opportunity?
Platforms providing access to raw data, or to a cut-down set of capabilities, through AI apps like ChatGPT are approaching MCP connectors as a way to add value for existing users. But the industry could be taking a very limited lens on a much larger addressable market.
Shopping, Sizing, Social, AI Strategy, And Domestic Shoe Manufacturing
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
New Permissions And Growth Statistics Support A Vision For Agentic Shopping
A legal fight over agentic browsers reached a new phase this week, but that case is likely to be a red herring in a much deeper push towards AI-influenced commerce.
AI Meets 3D Printing, Composable eCommerce, SHEIN’s Valuation, And AI Shopping As A Service
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Fair Use Is Making Online Content Fair Game. Does Fashion Care?
Content creators across publishing, music, photography and more have been waiting for determinations on AI training as fair use. Current indications are not in their favour. What should fashion’s calculus look like?
The AI Report 2026: Available Now
The third edition of fashion's milestone annual report on artificial intelligence. Survey results, brand perspectives and stories, analysis, and exclusive technology executive interviews.
Clothing Destruction, Cybersecurity and AI, Affordability, And UK-EU Politics
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
Frontier Cybersecurity, Advanced Persistence, And The Market For Fear
Last year’s wave of data breaches and ransom demands are fresh in fashion’s memory. Will a new turn in AI model capability, persistence, and inter-governmental posturing change the calculus again, or can the industry’s already-shored-up infosec practices sustain it?
The Solution Spotlight 2026 – Download Now
A new guide, examining where, and why, fashion is shopping for software and solutions, process by process - with profiles of key vendors in each area. Available today as a downloadable report, accompanied by new, live digital listings.
Bespoke Technology, BNPL, Mystery Boxes, AI Advisory, And A Case Study In Bad Fit
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
An AI Likeness Free-For-All, Social Impact, Cataloguing, Sorting, And Persuasion
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
AI Plays With Permission, Forgiveness, And Persuasion
Alongside model advancements across different modalities, this week demonstrates that AI will continue to test social boundaries - leaving fashion to decide whether it’s truly along for a bumpy cultural ride.