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.
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.
What Business Spend Data Really Says About AI Adoption
Fifty-five per cent of American businesses now pay for AI. But what are companies actually buying, and who are they buying it from?
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.
Why Fashion Still Over-Develops
Despite decades’ worth of technology adoption and transformation initiatives, brands, on average, develop far more materials and style than they, or the market, actually need. What needs to change?
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.
The Case For Creating A New, Digital-Native Luxury Group
Groups and conglomerates have dominated luxury for decades, but recent attempts to forge new ones have floundered. A new Irish group, steeped in the country’s heritage, is betting on technology making the difference.
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.
Can 3D Weaving Make Domestic Production Viable?
Arne Arens made the unusual leap from being a brand executive to leading a technology company in fashion’s most unforgiving segment: manufacturing innovation. From creating net-new jobs to translating digital product creation outputs into seamless garments, his big bet is on this transformation taking root.
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.
Finding The Feeling In AI Campaigns
Zalando has pushed further than perhaps any other company in embedding generative AI into its content creation - from product page materials to full-blown creative campaigns - and in talking openly about it. But if cost-saving isn’t the primary objective, what is?
Substack, Politics, Surveillance, Scaling Recycling, And Labelling AI
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
The High Bar For Disrupting Knitting
Outside of software itself, knitting is probably the closest thing fashion has to coding: a verifiable, binary discipline defined by scarce talent, and specialised software and hardware. Upending it might be the industry’s high bar for new technology - but one company is trying anyway.
Social Bans, Smart Glasses, Programmatic AI, And Heat-Tech
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.