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.
(Re)defining DPC with Kara Van Malssen of AVP
AVP’s Partner & MD on recalibration, ROI and the evolving role of DAM in 3D ecosystems.
In London, CLO Recommits To Connecting The DPC Dots
Last month, the 3D leader set out to rally the creator community and the real-time partner ecosystem to reaffirm a vision to bridge longstanding gaps in digital product creation workflows.
The Next Frontier For Digital Product Creation: Patternmaking With AI Assistance
As AI patternmaking becomes a larger fixture in digital workflows, both in standalone solutions and as an added capability of existing 3D tools, specialists have a new opportunity to direct the next turn in the digitisation of their craft.
(Re)defining DPC with Chad Malley of Hyland
Hyland’s Global Director of Digital Asset Management Practice on crossing the gap between 3D, DPC and the wider tech estate.