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.
Frontier Cybersecurity, Advanced Persistence, And The Market For Fear
Last year’s wave of data breaches and ransom demands are fresh in fashion’s memory. Will a new turn in AI model capability, persistence, and inter-governmental posturing change the calculus again, or can the industry’s already-shored-up infosec practices sustain it?
The Case For Creating A New, Digital-Native Luxury Group
Groups and conglomerates have dominated luxury for decades, but recent attempts to forge new ones have floundered. A new Irish group, steeped in the country’s heritage, is betting on technology making the difference.
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.
Bespoke Technology, BNPL, Mystery Boxes, AI Advisory, And A Case Study In Bad Fit
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
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.
An AI Likeness Free-For-All, Social Impact, Cataloguing, Sorting, And Persuasion
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment.
AI Plays With Permission, Forgiveness, And Persuasion
Alongside model advancements across different modalities, this week demonstrates that AI will continue to test social boundaries - leaving fashion to decide whether it’s truly along for a bumpy cultural ride.
Finding The Feeling In AI Campaigns
Zalando has pushed further than perhaps any other company in embedding generative AI into its content creation - from product page materials to full-blown creative campaigns - and in talking openly about it. But if cost-saving isn’t the primary objective, what is?
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?
The High Bar For Disrupting Knitting
Outside of software itself, knitting is probably the closest thing fashion has to coding: a verifiable, binary discipline defined by scarce talent, and specialised software and hardware. Upending it might be the industry’s high bar for new technology - but one company is trying anyway.
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.