Podcast: What Went Wrong With Web3?
A skeptic and a digital fashion educator and entrepreneur revisit the case for decentralised digital ownership, and ask what lessons the industry should have learned from its last big hype cycle before AI.
Podcast: Digital Maturity In The Extended Supply Chain
The success of any comprehensive transformation initiative hinges not just on uptake on the brand side, but on the existence of class-leading capabilities upstream. But what does it look like for a leading supplier to build technology maturity that matches or exceeds the innovation its customers are pursuing?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.