Thirteen Years On, The Future Of Wearables Still Looks Suspiciously Like Glasses
Google’s 2026 plan for fashion-forward smart glasses is intended to break open a category dominated by Meta, taking us back to the original Google Glass concept from 2012 – just with an injection of AI.
Podcast: Bringing Fashion Week Back To Manchester
How the complicated industrial legacy and unique culture of The Interline’s home city, combined with a new emphasis on technology, made 2025 the right year to resurrect its fashion week.
Beauty Leads Europe’s Innovation Race – Technology Could Be Next
Europe’s beauty sector now ranks among its most advanced industries, where data and modelling guide everything from formulation to production. The stage is set for the next steps in beauty technology.
A Global Manufacturing Slowdown Versus The Resilience Of The World’s Factory
Manufacturing data across major economies shows universally softening demand, but thanks in part to policy and trade decisions that over-emphasised the importance of US exports, China’s trade surplus has nevertheless passed the $1 trillion threshold for the first time.
Homegrown Retail Tech Comes Under Two Kinds Of Scrutiny
Internally-developed brand / retail technology has become sophisticated enough to be treated with the same scrutiny as open-market systems, as the recent Alpha Modus and Temu cases show. What’s next?
Help Map the State of Product Testing in 2025/26
As we navigate a historically unpredictable holiday shopping season, there has never been a stronger mandate to build an advance understanding of how products will perform. Join a survey to share your perspective on the present and the future of product testing.
Is Fashion’s AI Infrastructure Ready For The Holidays?
Seamless frontend experiences hinge on a great deal of back-end complexity across the eCommerce tech estate. Add AI to the mix, and apply seasonal pressure, and the cracks in fashion and beauty’s infrastructure could start to show this year.
Podcast: Making Sense Of The AI Shopping Journey
Consumers are surrounded by chatboxes, all promising proactive, personalised advice on what to buy, and where. But it’s unclear how general purpose AI models really “shop,” how they gather data about products, and how much they really understand user intent. I talk to Maria Belousova, CTO at Daydream, about the technical and cultural components of teaching AI the vocabulary of fashion.
Black Friday 2025: Digital Dominates, And AI Takes Deeper Root
Early numbers point to a digital first weekend for the first big holiday spending event, along with the first signs of where AI is likely to actually fit into the discovery and purchasing journey.
Robots And AI Are Poised To Rearrange General Work. Will The Same Happen In Fashion?
A new McKinsey forecast, delivery bots, and humanoid robots in high-stakes situations together sketch some predictions for the next phase of automation – and its potential impact on fashion’s workflows.
Podcast: What’s The Actual Opportunity For Fashion In Gaming?
We take it as read that fashion and gaming are growing closer together, but what’s the quantifiable value of branded experiences and where do they sit on balance sheets? What’s the outlook for selling cosmetic items? And what does it mean for tightly-controlled brand narratives to live alongside user-generated content?
A Cautious Holiday Season And The New Wave Of AI Shopping Features
New AI features are aiming to streamline the buying journey, though the bigger question is how much confidence shoppers bring into the 2025 US holiday season.
Replay: What Does 2026 Have In Store For Enterprise AI?
Real AI applications in fashion and beauty are gathering momentum, but what’s around the corner? And how prepared are those industries to meet it? A newly-opened webinar replay tackles the big questions.
The Trouble With Trying To Regulate Demand
Europe is stepping up enforcement and legal challenges against fast-fashion platforms, while domestic retailers struggle with the deeper reality of an affordability crisis. In that context, is “fair competition” really the right lever for fashion to pull?
Podcast: Culture, Identity, Personal Data, And Wearable Devices
Exploring where the integration of technology into fashion (and vice versa) is headed, especially in the context of historic land-grabs from big tech and AI labs for people’s personal data.
Regulatory Pullback In The EU, And The Evolving Argument For Supply Chain Technology
Europe’s decision to “water down” due diligence and disclosure rules for supply chains is likely to lead to some short-term shock, but the work of quantifying what really happens upstream should help secure a place for technology and expertise.
Can Shared Data Help Fix Fashion’s Climate Problem?
The Fashion Pact’s European Accelerator aims to bring consistency to supplier reporting, and to test whether standardised data can help fashion make real headway on emissions.
Podcast: What’s The Real Outlook For Digital Fashion?
Tackling some of the thorny language, and the open spaces, between the previous vision for digital fashion, and a more practical short-term reality, with the Founder of Digital Fashion Week.
How To Modernise Fabric Cutting Without Major Investments
The next wave of fashion manufacturing is intelligent, not invasive—leveraging data to make cutting rooms leaner, faster, and more sustainable.
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.
Automation Shock: The World’s Factory Continues To Pull Ahead
Executives are coming back from China describing factories that barely need people. Elsewhere, the ones that still do keep making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Between efficiency and exposure, is the industry edging toward a supply chain that runs without traditional human labour?
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