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 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.
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.
A Label Is More Than Just A Carrier For Language
A disconnect between sustainability claims and substantiating information is business as usual for regulators, but the same scrutiny is now coming for the new frontier of AI disclosure. Is fashion prepared for the future of labelling?
The Future Of Fashion’s Thirst For Water
Fashion devotes a lot of time to securing its inputs, but the importance of water to the industry’s supply chain goes under-discussed, and water is not quantified and assessed the way carbon is. But as water justice becomes a more acute business continuity risk, the demand to reckon with fashion’s thirst is growing.
Podcast: Science, Sustainability, And The Slow March Of Reality
Despite individual brand efforts, fashion’s footprint has continued to grow. The upshot might not be immediately catastrophic, but a slow set of signals are reinforcing the urgency - and the potential benefits - of near-term action.
Podcast: Sustainability Through A Different Lens
How a combination of hard-coded values around size and price inclusivity, a willingness to recognise the limits of existing systems, and commitment to looking at things differently manifest themselves in a unique sustainability strategy.
Northshore Apparel Selects Coats Digital’s Full Suite of Solutions to Power Ghana’s First Regenerative Apparel Manufacturing Hub
GSDCost, FastReactPlan and FastReactFabric to form the digital foundation of a purpose-built, zero-waste apparel facility creating thousands of jobs in Northern Ghana.
Water Is Fashion’s Blind Spot. That Is Now a Business Risk
As water scarcity accelerates across global fashion supply chains, sustainability claims are colliding with a much harsher reality on the ground - and translating into measurable business continuity risk.
Driving Sustainability Through 3D Digital Product Creation At Patagonia
More than just a different approach to design and development, 3D has become one of the key levers that industry leaders can pull to align talent, technology, and process innovation to strategic objectives and deeply-held business values. But pulling it the right way can take time.
Podcast: Affordability, Domestic Supply Chains, And Sustainability
Ben is joined by Simon Platts, industry veteran and consultant, for a sideways look at the foundational pillars of the fashion business model - and why the time might have come to challenge them.
Ten Themes That Will Define The Fashion And Beauty Technology Agenda In 2026
Predicting the evolving attitudes, strategic objectives, and trends that will influence how fashion, beauty, and technology all interact over the course of the coming year.
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.
The Trouble With Trying To Regulate Demand
Europe is stepping up enforcement and legal challenges against fast-fashion platforms, while domestic retailers struggle with the deeper reality of an affordability crisis. In that context, is “fair competition” really the right lever for fashion to pull?