Testing The Pace Of AI Progress
From drastic cost reductions in a single discipline, to experiments with handing over deeper operations: one mid-sized brand’s lessons from engaging with the cutting edge.
The Case For Making Wearable Medical Technology More Visible
Deafmetal Founder Jenni Ahtiainen, who designs jewellery and safety accessories for hearing devices, shares a different vantage point on the relationship between wearable medical technology and self-expression, and what overcoming the stigma attached to hearing loss can tell us about a much bigger emerging category.
All About AI: Evgeni Zapadinsky & Lana Vereshchagina of Aiclo
Aiclo's CEO and CMO/COO on why AI's job isn't to replace technical designers, but to free them from spending eight hours on a basic sleeve block.
All About AI: Atnyel Guedj of Made2Flow
Made2Flow's CPO on why every sustainability ambition rests on the same foundation: faster, cleaner data.
Fashion’s Ongoing Dance With Deferred Payment Credit
Fintech platforms have become increasingly tied to brands' and retailers' pursuit of growth in customers, ABV, and GMV. But with new guardrails applied to buy-now-pay-later, and the cost of living rising, could card-linked instalments be different enough to change things?
What Does It Mean To Own A Face, And Who Decides Who Gets To?
The frenzied progress of generative image models has been accompanied by a free-for-all on the likenesses of their human counterparts, in both training and everyday use. Now, the people and agencies who trade in identity are building frameworks to try and codify ownership and accountability.
eCommerce, Shopper Passports, MHS, Fees & Gen Zs
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
All About AI: Brian Lindauer of VibeIQ
VibeIQ’s CEO explains the distinction between adding AI to existing systems and creating an AI-native product decision layer.
How Soon Could The Verticalisation Of AI Come For Fashion?
AI labs continue to push the frontier of general purpose “computer use”, but verticalisation of processes remains the key to deeper domain adoption. And a new hardware interface standard could represent a different way in.
How Far Can Generative Tooling For Fashion Go?
The market perception is that generative AI is most mature at the beginning and end of the product journey, where products can exist as pictures, and least ready in the technical spaces in between. One AI creative platform wants to try and do it all.
All About AI: Rupert Schiessl of Bamboo Rose
Handing off the decision doesn't mean handing off control. Bamboo Rose’s Chief Strategy & AI Officer on why a governed digital workforce is the only safe way to let AI agents run the retail supply chain.
Mailroom #1
The first edition of The Mailroom, where we put listeners' fashion technology questions to industry friends and experts, as well as answering a couple ourselves.
Calculating The Cost Of A Prompt
Two brand co-founders wrestle with why, whether, and where to deploy generative AI, stacking potential efficiency gains against environment and ethics.
What The Leap-Forward In Open Weights AI Means For Fashion
Brands and technology vendors have been running cheap, lesser-known AI models in low-stakes applications for at least a year. Now new open models are appearing right at the software frontier, prices are under pressure, and a chip war is heating up. What does fashion need to know?