Now or Never: the Case for Flexibility and Diversity in Supply Chains
From diversifying their sourcing bases, to changing inventory strategies, fashion businesses need to find new ways to blunt the impact of supply chain risk
How Can Factories Prepare For The New Due Diligence Rules?
New expectations for sustainability are redefining relationships between brands and their supply chain partners. How is one of the world’s foremost fashion manufacturing destinations managing this transition? And what does Bangladesh’s journey indicate for the wider fashion sourcing base and supply chain?
Conversations: Amit Guatam, Founder & CEO, TextileGenesis
We talk to Amit Guatam of TextileGenesis about why traceability is such a difficult prospect in fashion.
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The Interline Renews And Expands European Partnership With Première Vision
A jointly-curated programme of evolved technology conversations, returning to Paris in February 2024, and a new extension to Milan in late 2023.
Smart, Subtle, Then Sudden: The Future Of AI Wearables
After making its way, subtly, into almost every part of day-to-day software, how long will it be until AI makes the same quiet-then-sudden inroads into wearables and fashion?
Are Shorter Supply Chains The Answer To Fashion’s Sustainability Problem?
Embracing shorter supply chains is a crucial step towards achieving a more sustainable and responsible fashion industry, from reducing overproduction to increasing transparency and control.
Google’s End To Gatekeeping: The New EU Regulations Reshaping E-Commerce
How did Google get to be the gatekeepers of product discovery and shopping online, and what does the EU dismantling that role mean for online retail?
Copenhagen Fashion Week: Moving Beyond Fashion’s AI-Apprehension
The commercial argument for AI is compelling, but a feeling of apprehension remains among creative professionals. Fashion is now tasked with finding a way to embrace and harness AI for more than just operational efficiency.
The World Is Changing. What We Need From PLM Is Changing With It.
From the existential threat of climate change, to stringent sustainability legislation, complex supply chain risk, high input costs, and an unpredictable consumer and wholesale market, survival in fashion today means overcoming an interlocking grid of challenges. Against that backdrop, what does it mean for PLM to continue to deliver as both a bedrock of stability and an enabler for wider digital transformation?
Who Should Lead On Fabric Digitisation? Brands, Factories Or Mills?
With digital product creation still top of mind for brands and their suppliers, who should shoulder the burden and the opportunity of digitisation?
Shein And The Smoke-And-Mirrors Supply Chain
The lightning rod for fast fashion criticism is attempting to curate its public image, and that’s raising bigger questions about how much of the apparel supply chain consumers really need to understand.
Genderless Fashion And The Conscious Consumerism Contradiction: This Week In Fashion Technology
Genderless fashion will require substantial modifications to the entire design and development workflow - so digital spaces may provide an expedited path to exploring it. At the same time, the industry and consumers are caught in the battle between consumerism and sustainability. Which will win?
A Win-Win Relationship? Exploring Fashion’s Tech Incubator and Accelerator Takeover
When it comes to building the future of fashion, incubators and accelerators are increasingly defining the direction of innovation. Does that work for everyone?
Rhetoric and Regulation: We Need Immediate Action On Fashion’s Impact
Beyond the moral imperative, fashion is set to discover very soon how climate change will impact its bottom line - making near-term action an essential commercial drive, not just an environmental and humanitarian one.