The Agentic Outlook
What actually is an AI agent? How do they work? What might they mean for fashion? And what does the agentic future hold for the people who currently make the industry what it is?
Should Fashion And Beauty Be Concerned About Market Dilution From AI?
Three new legal developments have shown that expected intellectual property defences against AI training might stand on shaky foundations. What’s next?
Beauty, Longevity, And AI: What L’Oréal’s VivaTech Showcase Says About The Future Of Beauty Tech
At VivaTech 2025, L’Oréal laid down a new architectural blueprint for beauty, defined by diagnostics, data in and out, and new, dynamic ecosystems built on those very different foundations. What might it mean for the industry as a whole?
Webinar: Why Fashion’s Future Is Being Decided Today
A live event on 3rd July 2025, examining how leading brands are transforming the way they create, manufacture, and market – starting now.
Going On Vibes – Where Software Sits Today, Fashion Could Follow
What happens when industries staffed by a revolving door of insiders see their tools land in the hands of everyone else?
France Targets Fast Fashion As Shein Discloses An Emissions Surge
France’s new fast fashion legislation, Shein’s emissions disclosure, and Chanel’s supply chain investment spotlight different sides of fashion’s systemic impact.
The AI Report 2025: Available Now
An updated look at how AI, generative and otherwise, is impacting fashion and beauty in 2025 - and what this means for software, skills, and more.
The Cultural Push And Pull Of AI Continues
From lawsuits to cloned CEOs, this week offered a snapshot of AI’s accelerating reach into law, labour, education, and brand identity.
Designing Machines For Human Spaces
As AI moves closer to our skin and our front doors, the question isn’t only what it should do, but how it should show up, look, and behave.
How New Tools Are Creating New Rules For Marketing And Engagement
With Veo 3 and new MetaHuman tools, Google and Epic are aiming to reshape how creative teams build campaigns, cast characters, and control image-making.
Under The Hood Of The Real Engine For Resale
France’s top clothing retailer doesn’t design, make, or hold stock. What Vinted’s rise teaches us about how fashion might look when the friction around resale has been eased, and the bigger questions remain.
Two Case Studies Demonstrate Contrasts In Domestic Production Outcomes
As UK holdout Leicester’s garment industry faces “collapse” amid scandals and a broad-brush brand exodus, expansion of artisanal craft networks in Europe demonstrate a very different path for domestic manufacturing.
The Renewed Strategic Importance Of BOMs In Beauty
At the peak of unpredictability and regulatory oversight, the humble bill of materials could hold the keys to helping tackle some of beauty’s biggest strategic challenges.
The Biggest AI Progress Is Hiding In The Space Between Announcements
This week, the world’s tech giants got up on stage to talk agents, frontier models, new modalities, AI assistants and wearables, but the real progress is arguably happening behind the scenes where AI is getting faster, cheaper, more local - and consequently harder to ignore.