AI Holiday Hiring, Regional Attitudes, Modelling, The Social Bargain, And Resale’s Boom
Grace and Ben discuss AI holiday hiring, regional attitudes to AI, human modelling, fashion’s social-platform bargain, and eBay’s resale growth.
Become DPP-Ready: Build A Scalable Product Data Foundation For Sustainability
Download Lectra's latest eGuide, for insights into the groundwork required to meet sustainability disclosure requirements.
Replay: Closing Fashion’s AI Trust Gap
Fashion has no compunctions about adopting AI, but confidence in its outputs has yet to catch up. Replay our live debate from last month, featuring executives from VibeIQ, Bamboo Rose and Voxelo.
Luxury Brands Know Their Buyers. Do They Know Their Customers?
Product authentication has been luxury's primary use case for blockchain, but so far it's focused on visibility at the point of sale or resale. A tech founder argues it has a deeper role to play.
A Long-Simmering Scare For The Modelling Sector
Fashion has only started to have “the talk” about the various ways that generative AI is reducing the need for human modelling work, but new reporting on bookings, and new proposed terms from fashion’s most enduringly relevant social network, mean it’s time to confront the conversation head-on.
What It Takes To Run A Fashion Brand With A Social Conscience
TOAST's Rosie McKissock describes how the brand's social conscience shapes material choices, supplier relationships, and the boundaries it sets for AI.
All About AI: Chad Malley of Hyland
Why trust in AI will be built from source data, curation, human oversight, and the judgement of the end user.
Spotlight On: PLM, Data Management, AI & Collaboration
Despite playing a pivotal role in product creation, PLM has faded into the background. Enterprise demand for grounded AI is bringing it roaring back.
All About AI: Juan Pellerano of Swap Commerce
Industry data suggests that fashion professionals and shoppers distrust AI. Real-world behaviour indicates the opposite, and agentic commerce is being built on that latter bet.
A Stark Reminder Of Fashion’s Reliance On The Internet
A high-profile vulnerability in PHP, a scripting language behind a huge portion of the web, served as a warning shot for fashion this week, and made the case for enterprise support and centralised architectures. At least temporarily.
What Fashion Can Learn From Beauty’s AI Feedback Loop
Every fashion brand is pursuing personalisation and questioning how AI changes the way they engage with their consumer, but the most important case studies might be found in beauty, where regulated claims, shopper participation, and outcome measurement over time create a potent loop.
What Fashion Students Really Think About AI
The incoming generation of fashion professionals have always been the industry’s natural early adopters, and its reliable talent pool for the future. A new student survey suggests AI might buck that trend.
Getty Bankruptcy, AI Agents And Accountability, Circuits In Yarns, And Retail Cybersecurity
This week on The Edit, Grace Robinson and Ben Hanson discuss Getty Images’ planned bankruptcy and the future of editorial photography, AI accountability as brand equity, ticket bots and Meta Muse’s personal dossiers, electronic circuits spun into washable fibres, and the physical consequences of retail cyberattacks.
All About AI: Maísa Benatti of AIUTA
What it means to build trust in AI Virtual-Try On, for that trust to hold up in large-scale deployments online and off, and for brands to bring genuine fashion expertise to bear on AI outputs.