Replay: Closing Fashion’s AI Trust Gap
Fashion has no compunctions about adopting AI, but confidence in its outputs has yet to catch up. Replay our live debate from last month, featuring executives from VibeIQ, Bamboo Rose and Voxelo.
A Long-Simmering Scare For The Modelling Sector
Fashion has only started to have “the talk” about the various ways that generative AI is reducing the need for human modelling work, but new reporting on bookings, and new proposed terms from fashion’s most enduringly relevant social network, mean it’s time to confront the conversation head-on.
What It Takes To Run A Fashion Brand With A Social Conscience
TOAST's Rosie McKissock describes how the brand's social conscience shapes material choices, supplier relationships, and the boundaries it sets for AI.
All About AI: Chad Malley of Hyland
Why trust in AI will be built from source data, curation, human oversight, and the judgement of the end user.
PHP, Generative Tech Packs, And The State Of Clothing Repair
This week on The Edit, Grace Robinson and Ben Hanson discuss the PHP security flaw and Google Cloud outage, The Fabricant’s generative tech packs and sewing-pattern tools, and the state of clothing repair and resale.
All About AI: Juan Pellerano of Swap Commerce
Industry data suggests that fashion professionals and shoppers distrust AI. Real-world behaviour indicates the opposite, and agentic commerce is being built on that latter bet.
A Stark Reminder Of Fashion’s Reliance On The Internet
A high-profile vulnerability in PHP, a scripting language behind a huge portion of the web, served as a warning shot for fashion this week, and made the case for enterprise support and centralised architectures. At least temporarily.
What Fashion Can Learn From Beauty’s AI Feedback Loop
Every fashion brand is pursuing personalisation and questioning how AI changes the way they engage with their consumer, but the most important case studies might be found in beauty, where regulated claims, shopper participation, and outcome measurement over time create a potent loop.
What Fashion Students Really Think About AI
The incoming generation of fashion professionals have always been the industry’s natural early adopters, and its reliable talent pool for the future. A new student survey suggests AI might buck that trend.
Getty Bankruptcy, AI Agents And Accountability, Circuits In Yarns, And Retail Cybersecurity
This week on The Edit, Grace Robinson and Ben Hanson discuss Getty Images’ planned bankruptcy and the future of editorial photography, AI accountability as brand equity, ticket bots and Meta Muse’s personal dossiers, electronic circuits spun into washable fibres, and the physical consequences of retail cyberattacks.
All About AI: Maísa Benatti of AIUTA
What it means to build trust in AI Virtual-Try On, for that trust to hold up in large-scale deployments online and off, and for brands to bring genuine fashion expertise to bear on AI outputs.
The Age Of Generative Fashion Photography Is Truly Upon Us
Traditional photo agencies are falling on hard times, while generative image pipelines and platforms are in the ascendancy. We might not be able to draw a direct causative line between the two, but the cultural context of fashion photography seems destined to enter a new age.
Is There Such A Thing As An Authentic Synthetic Image?
Individual brands have their own idiosyncratic relationships with generated images, but fashion, on aggregate, has embraced the value of synthetic photography for eCommerce in particular - even in the face of cultural polarisation. What’s next?
All About AI: Matt Rouif of Photoroom
To truly become the next stage of fashion's imaging pipeline, generative models and tools need to be able to represent and honour the product promise, and deliver a return that goes beyond the token level.