Defining The ‘How’ And The ‘What’ Of SROI – Part 1
To begin to manage, and then mitigate, its impact on people and planet, fashion must first put in the work to understand and quantify the resources used in product creation.
Digital Opens Doors
How digital tools opened up new creative horizons and laid down a career path for a designer who found a way into fashion through 3D.
AI’s Constant Acceleration: This Week In Fashion Technology
From generated models to generated clothing collections, the pace of AI development has fashion, technology figures, and lawmakers on their collective toes, as the world wrestles with the question of what unchained AI might mean, and where the boundaries should lie.
Does Digital Truly Equal Sustainable?
Working in 3D can shorten the development cycle of products dramatically. And digital-only fashion could sidestep the industry's legacy of overproduction. But does digital working automatically equate to sustainable working? And is digital-only fashion creating a false perception of what comprehensive DPC should really mean?
SXSW 2023 Sessions Debate Whether Fashion Is Pulling Back From The Metaverse And What Comes Next
As uncertainty around the impact of the metaverse and Web3 grew, this spring's SXSW became a nexus for a debate about where digital fashion stands, and where it should be headed. The Interline puts a finger on the pulse.
Fashion’s Outsize Contribution To Climate Change, And The New Retail Experience: This Week In Fashion Technology
With a newly-released report underlining the scale, speed, and severity of climate change, fashion will yet again be called on to account for its significant environmental footprint. And as the industry begins to reckon with the idea of making less product, technology could become fundamental to delivering a new retail experience.
To Succeed In DPC, Ditch The Business Case And Make The Personal Case
Digital product creation means new opportunities, new efficiencies, and heightened profitability and creativity. But could the major benefits be to the everyday lives of the people using it?
It’s Time To Talk About Fashion’s Digital Talent Gap
With fashion targeting universal DPC adoption, hybrid talent is in high demand and short supply. From educators to brands, the new, shared mandate is to grow the digital skills that will support fashion's future.
Podcast: Sneakers, Sustainability & The Secondary Market
The Interline talks to the CEO of The Edit LDN about why technology is underpinning the secondary market for high end streetwear and sneakers - and why circular resale platforms could be a proving ground for fashion's wider digital transformation.
Web3’s Smoke and Mirrors, Scrutiny in Funding’s Future, and AI’s Advancements: This Week In Fashion Technology
Will Web3 find itself trapped in a chasm between committed advocates and a largely disinterested mass market? Does the collapse of SVB herald a harder time for startups raising funding? And why does GPT-4 matter so much for enterprise users?
How Zumba Conducts Product Development To Its Own Beat
With a complex product mix and fast development calendar, dance and apparel giant Zumba talks to The Interline about how it uses technology to track all its fast-moving parts and to bring its customers joy.
Preparing For Transparency With A Flexible Value Chain, Backed By Data
Across the entire, multi-tier, fashion supply chain, brands and their partners are now required to substantiate sustainability initiatives with evidence. The first building block for that disclosure will be rearchitecting relationships to run on data rather than trust and intuition.
AI-Powered Filters, Robots on the Runway, and Science-Focused Fashion Startups: This Week In Fashion Technology
Fashion often takes big creative swings, but as the industry grows closer to the vanguard of transformative technologies and big cultural change, those experiments and investments could come with a different risk profile…
Finding Interoperability In Digital Fashion Assets
As fashion migrates to digital-native working, the drive for standardisation in data exchange and management is becoming more pronounced. Is the industry ready to respond?