Regulating Fast Fashion in a Cost-Conscious Market
France and Italy are tightening scrutiny on Shein and ultra-fast fashion, but consumer demand shows little signs of slowing in a price-driven market.
Testing The Boundaries Of Agentic AI
Microsoft’s recent experiment with agentic AI shows how autonomy still needs structure, while SAP’s updates and Amazon’s legal clash show an industry learning where the limits lie.
Podcast: What’s Changing In Design And Development Innovation?
After being dominated by digital product creation strategies, the cutting edge of design and development workflows is feeling the pull of artificial intelligence - and big questions are being asked about where the line gets drawn. Sean Lane, Director of Digital Innovation And AI at Vans joins the show to debate them.
Fashion’s Coal Addiction Is Blocking The Very Innovations That Could Save It
While the rest of the world embraces renewables, the fashion industry remains hopelessly besotted with coal. In doing so, it’s not only polluting the planet but also locking itself out of the very innovations that could make sustainability possible.
Fashion And Beauty’s Race To Lock In Recycled Inputs
Forward-thinking companies are shifting from published commitments to pre-emptive contracts designed to redress the balance between the materials they need and the availability of recycled and preferred feedstocks and inputs.
Recapping The CLO EU Summit 2025, In Context
Ahead of the launch of this year’s upcoming DPC Report, our Editor looks back at Europe’s largest gathering of CLO users and considers some of the key takeaways for the extended 3D / digital product creation community.
Podcast: Climate Transformation And The Circular Economy
A grounded perspective on environmental tipping points, the reality of recycling, and the gap between fashion’s linear growth economy and the vision for a viable circular alternative.
Beauty Origin Claims Under Review
Recent California cases show how ‘Made In USA’ origin labelling is becoming a compliance issue that depends on data accuracy and documentation.
How AI-Native Tooling For Design Operations Is Transforming Product Outcomes
With so many generative applications focused on supercharging creativity, using AI to solve the operational and alignment challenges of turning concepts into products could deliver a much bigger impact on the bottom line.
Lululemon’s ‘Dupe’ Trademark And The Evolving Language Of Brand Discovery
With “dupe” now entrenched in search and social discovery, brands like Lululemon and Aritzia are moving to protect the language that connects them to, and separates them from, counterfeit-adjacent culture.
Predictive Generative Models, And The Blend Between Motivation And Sales Material
Wellness, health, and beauty have always sold the target of a “better future you”. Predictive models and image generation can now bring that to life. But where will we find the line between using the results as personal motivation versus them being a sales catalyst?
Podcast: Championing DPC And Digital Education, With Christian L Harris
A timely debate with a leading name in the 3D community, covering everything from standardisation as a necessary precondition for automation, to the uncertain disruption that AI is potentially bringing to digital product creation - all through the prism of what one person’s journey can teach fashion professionals in general.
AI-Attributed Shortfalls In Search Traffic Are Everywhere, But They’re Disproportionately Affecting Fashion
The world’s biggest websites are starting to see pronounced visitor slumps year-over-year, and AI intercepting search traffic is being cited as a major culprit. But new research suggests that a web-wide trend is actually hitting online fashion even harder.
The DPC Report 2026 – Coming Soon
The Interline’s annual exploration of 3D and digital product creation, examining how core tools, ecosystem extensions, automations, and emerging 3D/AI workflows will influence fashion and beauty in 2026.