Fashion Week, On-Device Models, AI-Native Product Development, And Doomerism
This week on The Edit: AI at fashion week, on-device AI for shopping, AI-native product development, and the risks of disruption to fashion infrastructure.
Mailroom #1
The first edition of The Mailroom, where we put listeners' fashion technology questions to industry friends and experts, as well as answering a couple ourselves.
Will The Web-Native Playbook Work For Digital Product Creation?
Collaborative 2D design has become defined by 'multiplayer' web applications like Figma and Canva. 3D fashion is still mostly desktop-bound and singleplayer, so could it follow suit?
Spotlight On: 3D / DPC / CG
Fashion's relationship with digital product creation has faced some strain, especially from AI, but the core vision is as valid as it ever was.
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.
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.
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.
Five Years, Five Hundred Fabrics – Hard-Learned Truths About Material Digitisation
One company committed to building out a free-to-use library of high-fidelity digital fabrics, in industry-standard formats. In the process, it learned a lot about the state of the digital product creation ecosystem.
DAM X DPC – Reflecting On The Future Of Digital Product Creation
The original promise of 3D and DPC - a digital twin that serves as a reference frame for any decision - is more relevant than ever, but to realise it, fashion needs to reframe the way it treats the assets those twins are made from.
Podcast: What’s The Deal With Design Operations?
Repeatedly turning creativity into the right product outcomes can feel like an exercise in luck. Can pairing digital product creation with an operationalised approach to design allow brands to tip the scales in their favour?
Upcoming Event: DAM x DPC Unleashed
A live event, taking place on 12th May and hosted by The Interline's Editor in Chief, exploring the converging roles of digital product creation and digital asset management.
Pursuing Excellence Through 3D At ThruDark
How a performance-first brand is approaching the potential of digital product creation from first principles, putting product innovation first.
Podcast: The Push And Pull Of Tooling And Teaching For Design
From building repeatable systems to constantly updating their pipelines, seasoned and incoming designers are both working at the bleeding edge. What are they finding there? And what does it mean for the future of hybrid skills, and the balance between 3D and AI?
(Re)defining DPC with Takayuki Kato of YKK
YKK’s Vice President, Global Marketing Group, Business Strategy Division, on expanding 3D and DPC as a sustainability-driven, ecosystem-wide evolution that embeds trims seamlessly into connected digital workflows rather than treating them as an afterthought.