The AI Report 2025 – Coming Soon
The Interline’s most hotly-anticipated downloadable report, covering the full spectrum of artificial intelligence in fashion and beauty, will be released in the second quarter of 2025.
What All Brands Should Consider When Using AI To Scale Content
Even as the demand for digital content for consumers grows, brands might want to think twice about using AI to create content at historic scale, without careful consideration of who the real end audience is.
The Future Of AI In Retail Goes From Personalisation To Prescription With Avatars, Agents, And Automation
AI has long been a tool for refining personalisation, helping consumers discover and select products more easily. But as autonomous agents and hyper-realistic avatars take the next step - making purchases on behalf of shoppers - we may be moving toward a future where decisions are made for us, not by us. If this trajectory continues, will AI-powered retail enhance convenience, or simply redefine what it means to shop in the first place?
Beauty Tech And Services Make A Push To The Edge, And New Milestones In Consumer-Facing Uses Of AI In Fashion
Beauty is exploring a unique opportunity to sell mechanical innovation directly to consumers, but will that model scale? And in fashion, behind-the-scenes Silicon Valley investment and open commitments from luxury are testing new waters with AI.
How An AI Startup’s Factory Surveillance Backfired And What Fashion Should Learn From It
The general tech industry believes AI can track workers. But that doesn't mean it understands work.
What’s Shaping Fashion’s Strategies And Tech Agendas In 2025
With the first quarter of the new year underway, how are fashion professionals’ strategic plans and target technology investments preparing the industry for the rest of 2025?
Centric Software Announces the Acquisition of AI-Powered PXM Solution, Contentserv
The all-in-one cloud-based platform (PIM, DAM, Content Syndication and Digital Shelf Analytics (DSA)) enables FMCG companies to craft and optimize product content to reduce time to market, increase product sell-through and curate personalized consumer experiences
Big Bets On AI Are Still Gambles, And Walk-backs Muddy The Drive For Climate Disclosure
What the collapse of Humane, and the proliferation of AI spin-offs and start-ups mean for fashion. And whether the questions raised by the dilution of climate disclosure mandates in the US will challenge the motivations for environmental action.
Safety Sidelined At The Paris AI Summit, And Reduced Digital Access At New York Fashion Week
As the UK and US declined to endorse the summit's declaration, the pressing question remains: how can AI's rapid evolution be balanced with safety? Meanwhile, digital access at this season's NYFW was notably diminished.
Everything Gets Pulled Towards The Gravity Of Tariffs, And Big Tech Makes Its Big Push Into AI Wearables
The global tariff landscape is still volatile, but just weeks into trade tensions, ways to potentially sidestep them are emerging. The AI sector is also being pulled into nation-on-nation trade spats, at the same time the big tech industry is about to double-down on AI wearables as the next big consumer category.
A Bruising, Confusing Week in AI
Rumours are swirling around AI disruptor Deepseek, the cause of the biggest single-day loss in the value of a US public company, but the biggest and clearest challenge to the AI establishment is the move to self-hosting, open source, and decentralisation.
Tariff Uncertainties Spotlight The Importance Of Upstream Flexibility, and Beauty Aims to Prove Product Claims with AI
US brands are preparing for possible changes in their supply chains thanks to a revolving-door series of threats relating to new (or more stringent) import tariffs under the second Trump regime. And with applications for both brands and consumers, the beauty sector is making a notable bet on virtual try-on for skin care.
Bamboo Rose Acquires Verteego to Launch Retail’s First AI-Fueled Decision Intelligence Platform
Verteego brings widely sought-after state-of-the-art AI capabilities to the Bamboo Rose Retail Management Platform.
Fashion’s Year To Be Bold and Break New Ground
Beginning the year with momentum, Munich Fabric Start makes its return for their bi-annual event, encouraging the fashion industry to move with courage and flourish.