Is Selling Software Still A Stable Business?
It’s no secret that AI is in almost every software product for fashion and beauty today, but how well-integrated is it really? And with “AI burnout” emerging and tech stocks suffering a sell-off prompted by semantic interfaces challenging SaaS, the business of making and selling software is facing a cloudy horizon.
Using Virtual Reality To Wedge Open The Shrinking Window For Creative Expression In 3D
Digital product creation – and especially the drive to create complete digital twins – thrives on being a data-driven exercise from the outset. But by bringing the demands of engineering forwards to where they meet the earliest stages of design, has DPC started to impose on free creativity? And could working in VR restore some of that spatial intuition and freedom of expression?
Podcast: The Deepening Impact Of Digital Asset Management
A fundamental change in the definition of an “asset” – from a fixed form to a living object – and a userbase shift towards product creation teams combine to make DAM one of the most interesting and under-discussed cogs in the product journey.
Water Is Fashion’s Blind Spot. That Is Now a Business Risk
As water scarcity accelerates across global fashion supply chains, sustainability claims are colliding with a much harsher reality on the ground – and translating into measurable business continuity risk.
A Silly Week Of Tech Hype Is Hiding Long-Tail Challenges Upstream
Data centres in space, chatbots gone wild on dedicated AI-only forums, and new model demos stuffed with painfully familiar spreadsheets all provide comic relief, but behind the scenes there’s nothing funny about the scale of fashion’s systemic supply chain failures.
(Re)defining DPC with Mr. Mitsuhiro Shima of Shima Seiki
SHIMA SEIKI’s President on redefining DPC from the factory floor up — and why grounding 3D in yarn, machines, and producible reality is essential to scaling its impact across the fashion supply chain.
Practical & Producible – The Role Of Suppliers In Industrialising DPC & AI
With more digital talent and strategic vision residing upstream than ever, suppliers are in the unique position of being able to understand what brands are actually trying to accomplish with digital product creation – and to filter the viable and value-creating applications from the rest.
Podcast: The AI Logic And The Business Model Behind Virtual Fit
A strategic discussion about applying AI to one of fashion’s longest-standing technical challenges – and about testing the results through a business model that hits a lot of disruptive beats all at once.
AI-Native Brands Are Inevitable, But Maybe Not In The Way You Think
While AI has obliterated the bar to generating concepts and consumer-facing images, the AI-native brands that outlast the hype cycle will be those that take full advantage of a platform shift to build completely new routes to, and relationships with, consumers.
Fashion’s Most Underrated Opportunity Isn’t Technology. It’s Process.
As leading brands formalise process excellence, the next competitive edge will come from redesigning how we work — with technology cast as an enabler.
(Re)defining DPC with Jaden Oh of CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.
The Founder of CLO Virtual Fashion on how the 3D asset is evolving from a visual tool into the data-rich backbone of product creation, collaboration, and consumer trust.
DPC Report 2026: Step Inside The 3D Story
An inside perspective on pipelines, process, and advancing the cause of 3D storytelling and content creation, from this year’s fashion cover artist.
Podcast: Preparing eCommerce For The Next Citizens Of The Web
AI agents, agentic browsers, and language models equipped with tools – a new cohort of artificial shoppers could be on the horizon. But can the technology and the incentives scale fast enough to justify the returns for retailers and brands?
Beauty Shouldn’t Build Technology On Top Of A Data Deficit
To deliver next-generation products and experiences, especially AI-enabled or AI-adjacent ones, beauty needs to address any gaps that remain in its product or customer understanding.
Adverts In ChatGPT Probably Aren’t The Watershed Moment, But The Ad Economy Has Still Fixed Its Next Target
The most popular pricing tier of the most popular AI chatbot is becoming ad-supported, but a new company making a cold start is far less likely to change the landscape of fashion and beauty advertising than the under-assault ad tech giant that also runs its own full AI stack.
(Re)defining DPC with Adam Hankin of Gemell
Adam Hankin, Co-Founder of Gemell, on rethinking digital materials from the fibre up.
Driving Sustainability Through 3D Digital Product Creation At Patagonia
More than just a different approach to design and development, 3D has become one of the key levers that industry leaders can pull to align talent, technology, and process innovation to strategic objectives and deeply-held business values. But pulling it the right way can take time.
The Tech Gap No One Talks About: Why Small Manufacturers Deserve Better
A founder’s view from the factory floor on why fashion technology still isn’t being built for the small businesses that are actively trialling and proving out a more ethical direction.
Podcast: Affordability, Domestic Supply Chains, And Sustainability
Ben is joined by Simon Platts, industry veteran and consultant, for a sideways look at the foundational pillars of the fashion business model – and why the time might have come to challenge them.
A New Agentic Shopping Standard Reignites Arguments Around Big Tech’s Tightening Hold On Online Selling
The open source Universal Commerce Protocol promises comprehensive tooling for AI commerce. But should fashion and beauty be wary about so quickly ceding control of a nascent retail channel to tech giants? And will consumers feel the same?
DPC Report 2026: Behind The Brushstrokes
We quiz makeup artist Jack Oliver, who sits on the British Beauty Council, on their inspirations, their workflows, and their pipeline to provide behind the scenes insights into one of our two cover designs for this year’s DPC Report.
Podcast: Debating Digital Change And AI Convergence In 2026
Our first show of the new year brings together two insiders’ perspectives on emerging technology, education, software uptake, and whether 2026 will be the year we see meaningful convergence of AI across it all.
Ten Themes That Will Define The Fashion And Beauty Technology Agenda In 2026
Predicting the evolving attitudes, strategic objectives, and trends that will influence how fashion, beauty, and technology all interact over the course of the coming year.
Better Boards, Better Business
Fashion has become reliant on off-the-shelf tools for vital visual collaboration, but leading brands like Swarovski are showcasing the value of an embedded, extensible, configurable whiteboard architecture that could transform the way industry teams communicate and bring products to market.
Happy Holidays 2025, From The Interline
Seasonal best wishes, from our team to yours. And a look-forward at 2026 content milestones.
2025: The Fashion Technology Rearview
An annual tradition: our team recaps and comments on the stories that defined each month of this year in fashion technology.
AI Shopping Is Done By Brute Force Today, But A Codified Standard Could Change Things In 2026
Holiday shopping numbers show AI playing an assistive role, but the coming year could see some sweeping changes in the readiness of eCommerce platforms for agentic use.
Building A Spatial Brain To Serve Up Digital Twins For The Agentic Web
To differentiate themselves, brands are seeking to put interactive 3D content and experiences in front of consumers at scale. This is placing a new emphasis on accelerating the AI-native toolchain for creating, distributing, automating, and monetising the digital twins at the heart of the next era of engagement.
Digital Product Creation Report 2026 – available now
Exclusive brand stories, cutting-edge process and pipeline profiles, top-flight executive interviews, and frank analysis of the AI-touched future of 3D and digital product creation for fashion and beauty.
In A World Of Vibe-Coding, The Real Vibes That Matter For Consumer-Facing Technology Are Still Cultural
Threading the needle on sloppy AI Christmas ads, metaverse funding cuts, and how perennial digital platforms like Fortnite are holding onto their relevance in fashion and beauty.
Podcast: Forecasting Fashion’s Future Between Now And 2030
With new Euromonitor data and insights to work from, we start to close the year by looking forward at what the next four have in store at a global market and technological level, and how fashion brands are likely to respond.
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.
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