2025: The Fashion Technology Rearview
An annual tradition: our team recaps and comments on the stories that defined each month of this year in fashion technology.
A Global Manufacturing Slowdown Versus The Resilience Of The World’s Factory
Manufacturing data across major economies shows universally softening demand, but thanks in part to policy and trade decisions that over-emphasised the importance of US exports, China’s trade surplus has nevertheless passed the $1 trillion threshold for the first time.
Robots And AI Are Poised To Rearrange General Work. Will The Same Happen In Fashion?
A new McKinsey forecast, delivery bots, and humanoid robots in high-stakes situations together sketch some predictions for the next phase of automation - and its potential impact on fashion’s workflows.
How To Modernise Fabric Cutting Without Major Investments
The next wave of fashion manufacturing is intelligent, not invasive—leveraging data to make cutting rooms leaner, faster, and more sustainable.
Lectra
Automation Shock: The World’s Factory Continues To Pull Ahead
Executives are coming back from China describing factories that barely need people. Elsewhere, the ones that still do keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Between efficiency and exposure, is the industry edging toward a supply chain that runs without traditional human labour?
Putting Cotton’s Value Chain In Focus
From innovation to sustainability to digital design, cotton’s journey connects the entire industry. A new content channel from CottonWorks highlights how those connections are defining the fabric of fashion today.
Cotton Incorporated
Breaking Down Barriers In Fashion
Lectra discusses how siloed systems create setbacks, and the value of integrated data flows.
Lectra
Futureproofing Fashion: How MAS Industrialises Digital Transformation
For the full-service apparel tech partner, a lynchpin of the global supply chain, progressively integrating technology into its operations has allowed the company to build strategic capabilities that will support the industry through a historic transition.
Lectra
The Fashion And Beauty Impact Of China’s Robotics Push
China is investing heavily in ‘embodied robotics’, with a vision for factory floor automation that could offer a practical answer to the ongoing question of supply chain uncertainty.
Webinar: Why Fashion’s Future Is Being Decided Today
A live event on 3rd July 2025, examining how leading brands are transforming the way they create, manufacture, and market – starting now.
Lectra
Meeting The Moment – Why Fashion’s Long-Term Future Is Being Decided Today
Fashion’s most lasting stories have been forged by a combination of adversity, foresight, and innovation. But now the industry faces a historic mix of external disruption and internal inertia - and the companies willing to transform will be the ones that thrive.
Kornit Digital and Gooten Expand Access to Kornit’s Global Fulfillment Network for OnDemand Production
Gooten’s leading platform joins Kornit’s network, offering their customers global reach, retail quality, and agile on-demand production at every stage of growth
Rebooting Bangladesh: Inside The Automation Wave Redefining A Global Textile Powerhouse
With growing digital infrastructure and workforce training, Bangladesh is becoming a test case for tech-led manufacturing in emerging economies.
Why Manufacturers Are Pushing The Limits Of DPC
While the attention has been focused on brands’ and retailers’ 3D strategies, the world’s biggest suppliers have been making milestone commitments to testing new frontiers of DPC in preparation for industry-wide transformation.