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.