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.
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?
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.
Piling On The Wrong Bike
Why public backlash against a sloppy AI-generated ad is missing the point. And why the issues of control and reputation are baked right into the big tech vision for programmatic advertising.
Risk, Reward, And Cultural Pushback on AI In Fashion – And A New Play For the Secondary Market
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
What If The Models Go Away?
Fashion has spent the first half of this year redesigning different go-to-market stages, with a common foundation of closed-source, cloud-hosted, almost universally American models. Now, non-US brands are being reminded that they’ve potentially built on a single point of failure.
Cotton ConneXions Insight to Impact Brings Supply Chain Leaders Together Around Cotton Innovation
Cotton Incorporated event spotlighted market insights and cotton innovation while connecting mills, manufacturers and sourcing decision-makers.
The Price Of Personalisation
Despite World Cup fever bringing marketing teams and consumers together around a united aesthetic front, fashion continues to try and individualise the shopping experience through data capture and use - creating new risk exposure surfaces. But heavy investments made in AI and printing hardware are potentially unlocking a very different avenue for personalisation.
Humana Apparels Increases Capacity Utilisation by 15% and Cuts Shipment Delays with Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan
Real-time planning transformation improves OTDP by 5% and boosts productivity by 8% while reducing production variability.
A Precarious Moment For Platforms Built On Scraping Product Data
From the big tech giants to the buzziest start-ups, companies are architecting new AI-assisted or agentic discovery and transaction flows that rely on the ubiquity and open availability of SKU-level data, while the gatekeepers of that data are finding more incentives to lock it away.
YKK Announces Decision to Construct a New Factory in India
YKK Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Koichi Matsushima; hereafter, YKK) has decided to construct a new factory for…
Launchmetrics, strategic partner to the fashion, lifestyle and beauty industry, marks 10 years of defining brand performance
From pioneering brand performance to empowering industry-wide transformation, Launchmetrics enters its next chapter with continued innovation, expanded intelligence and strengthened industry leadership.
Naia App Announces Launch
A taste-led AI discovery platform for one-of-a-kind, craft-forward fashion from emerging designers and independent makers.
Carbonfact Acquires Vaayu, Uniting Fashion’s Two Largest Environmental Sustainability Platforms
Carbonfact's platform covers product impact measurement, carbon accounting, eco-design and environmental reporting.