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?
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.
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.
Teddy Group Selects Centric Market Intelligence to Power Market Expansion with Competitor Benchmarking and Data-Driven Decision-Making
Italian fashion retail leader boosts localization of retail and e-commerce strategy with AI-powered competitive pricing and trend insights.
As AI Rolls Out Across The Value Chain, Culture Will Have To Keep Up
AI adoption in fashion looks different at every level: while creative teams weigh its role in shaping ideas, factory workers must live under its metrics. Equity means reconciling both.
Why Fawning AI Could Become A Problem For Fashion And Beauty
OpenAI’s rollback of a too-affirming update invites a quieter question: what happens if retail AI starts to flatter before it informs?
Tariffs: Centric Software’s AI-Powered Solutions Provide Consumer Goods Brands, Retailers and Manufacturers with Agility to Mitigate Retail Uncertainty
Price elasticity, cost simulation, competitive intel, demand forecasting and more are all strategies enabled by technology to combat tariff effects.
Fashion & Beauty Need To Be Ready For The Internet’s New Front Door
We’ve documented how AI is reshaping product discovery. But what if that was just the beginning? With emerging signs OpenAI is eyeing social and shopping in addition to deepening search, the company isn’t just adding new tools to the stack, it may be laying the groundwork for an entirely new closed loop, one that could reroute the entire consumer journey.
AI, Ownership And The Legality Of Generative Inspiration
A new study suggests what many suspected: generative AI doesn’t just learn style—it remembers substance. Now, with lawsuits from the New York Times and acclaimed authors moving forward, the legal system is catching up. And for fashion—an industry built on inspiration—the question is no longer if AI poses a risk, but when.
Does Fashion Want To Wade Into The AI Copyright Battle?
Image generation has taken a leap forwards at the same time its chains have been loosened. As the biggest models get easier to use, better, and less restricted, will a point come where fashion has the appetite for action?
The AI Photoshoot Era Is Here. What Happens To Fashion’s Quieter Creatives?
Fashion’s most glamorous, outward-facing roles are dominating discussions about AI-driven job displacement and the future of compensation, but behind-the-scenes creatives are perhaps more at risk as businesses prioritise cost-cutting, creative control, and speed. And what this means for the acquisition of skills in the future is unclear.
How DPC And AI Could Combine To Advance Digital Transformation
With digital product creation anchored in streamlining creative work, and AI at the top of the investment pile thanks to its promise of radical automation, the two segments seem set to converge. What's likely to happen, fashion-wide, when they do?
Fair Use And Fair Play – Fleeting Defences To AI’s Expansion Into Fashion And Copyright
As AI’s influence grows, the storm continues to brew over data ownership, creator rights, and the legal framework steering its future.