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Explore our latest articles on AI in fashion, sustainable materials, and the trends shaping the fashion industry in 2026.
Excess Inventory in Fashion: How AI Is Saving Brands From Billion-Dollar Losses
Why brands make more than they sell, how AI tools from WGSN, Flagship and Depict are tackling it, and what it means for you as a designer.
Elastane Recycling: The Hidden Barrier Threatening Fashion Circularity in 2026
Why the stretch fibre in around 80% of our clothes blocks recycling, how new projects are tackling it, and what it means for your fabric choices.
The Ultra-Fast Fashion Crisis: How Tariffs Changed the Future of Shein and Temu in 2026
Why Shein and Temu lost ground after the US closed its duty-free loophole, and the opening this creates for independent designers.
AI Counterfeit Detection: How Entrupy Protects Millions of Products from Fakes in 2026
What Entrupy’s State of the Fake 2026 report reveals about luxury fakes, and why stitching and detail are a designer’s best protection.
Smart and Functional Fabrics: How to Choose a Fabric That Works for Your Customer in 2026
From Uniqlo’s HEATTECH to Outlast’s heat-storing capsules and France’s PFAS ban, a simple guide to choosing fabrics that warm, cool and repel water.
Inditex Growth in 2026: How the Smaller Brands Are Driving the Spanish Fashion Giant
Zara grew under 5% while Oysho jumped more than 21%. What Inditex’s results teach designers about specialising, small-batch production and presenting their work.
Laser Technology in Denim: How Jeanologia Is Leading Fashion’s Water-Saving Revolution
Lasers now replace hand-scraping and chemical sprays in more than 40% of the world’s jeans. Levi’s cut finishing to 90 seconds per garment, and water use falls to 20 litres or less.
Virtual Try-On: How AI Is Reshaping Fashion Shopping in 2026
Google has brought AI try-on into Search and Shopping, while DressX takes its AI Mirror from luxury e-commerce to Depop resale. Try-on users add to cart three times more often.
Blended Fabric Recycling: How Circ and Ambercycle Are Racing to Solve Textile Waste in 2026
Polycotton blends make up 77% of the textile market but are almost never recycled. Circ is building a €450m plant in France, while Ambercycle supplies cycora to Inditex.
Burberry’s Return to Growth: How Schulman’s Strategy Revived the British House in 2026
Burberry posts a fourth straight quarter of growth, with Q1 sales up 5%, the Americas +12% and China +9%. What its trench-led heritage strategy teaches future designers.
Sewing Robots: How Sewbot Is Redrawing the Future of Garment Manufacturing in 2026
BESTSELLER invests $20 million in SoftWear Automation’s Sewbot, a platform producing 800,000 shirts a day. What automated sewing means for the next generation of designers.
The Sizing Crisis: How AI Is Saving the Fashion Industry from Billions in Wasted Returns
From SAIZ’s Fit Intelligence platform to Zalando’s Size Flags and True Fit’s results with M&Co and Asics, see how AI is tackling the size-related returns that cost fashion billions.
Textile Recycling: How Industry Giants Are Investing Millions to Turn Fabric Waste into New Yarn in 2026
From Indorama Ventures and Jiaren’s chemical recycling partnership to Toray’s NANODESIGN and fully recycled Lurex yarns, see how textile recycling moved from pilots to industrial scale in 2026.
Fur-Free Fashion: A Historic Ban Rewrites the Rules of New York Fashion Week 2026
The CFDA has banned animal fur from New York Fashion Week starting September 2026, joining London and Copenhagen. See what it means for designers and bio-based alternatives like BIOFUR.
AI Product Photography: How This Technology Is Reshaping Fashion’s Cost and Creativity
AI product photography is cutting fashion shoot costs from £50 to £1 per image — but what does it mean for jobs, the environment, and creativity?
Generative AI Is Redrawing the Fashion Industry: From Design to Sales in 2026
Generative AI is redrawing the entire map of the fashion industry in 2026. It’s no longer a limited experiment confined to an innovation departm…
Why Doesn’t Your Smart Shopping Assistant Understand You? The Product Data Gap in Online Fashion Stores
The product data gap in online fashion stores reveals a key reason why so many smart shopping assistants fail to understand what customers actually ne…
Luxury Fashion’s 2026 Recovery: How Creative Appointments Are Driving Growth Back to the Great Fashion Houses
The second quarter of 2026 brought the first clear signs of a recovery in luxury fashion after two years of continuous slowdown, as the world’s …
3D-Printed Shoes: How This Technology Is Reshaping Fashion in 2026
3D-printed shoes have stopped being a limited lab experiment. Over the course of 2026 they became a real commercial production line, adopted by both s…
Bio-Based and Recycled Fabrics Are Reshaping Fashion in 2026
Bio-based and recycled fabrics have moved to the center of the sustainability agenda at the world’s biggest fashion houses, after years of marke…
Eight AI Tools Reshaping Fashion Design in 2026
AI in fashion design has become part of designers’ everyday work. It is no longer a passing trend — it now shows up at every stage of the proces…
Digital Sampling in Fashion: How 3D Technology Is Reshaping the Clothing Industry in 2026
Digital sampling in fashion is reshaping the 2026 clothing industry. See how CLO3D, Browzwear, adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss are cutting physical samples and speeding up production.
