The Interline

AI is already part of fashion professionals’ everyday lives. From executives to domain specialists, the majority of us turn to AI tools at home and at work. But only a quarter of the industry trusts the output of AI enough to base a critical decision on top of, and as a result even the most potentially powerful tools still sit off to the side of the industry’s technology estate.

As important as technology has become to the moving goalposts of fit, solving the industry’s sizing crisis is not, at least not any more, a technology problem. Before understanding why, though, it’s essential to reckon with the scale of that crisis.

The Edit is our weekly show, where Social Editor Grace Robinson quizzes editor-in-chief Ben Hanson on some of the most significant fashion and technology stories from the past seven days. This week on The Edit, Grace and Ben discuss Google’s use of AI at New York Fashion Week, Daydream’s move into on-device AI for shopping, Raspberry AI’s expansion into product development, Lectra’s launch of Apogy, and what AI’s threats to infrastructure could mean for fashion.

The user needs to be able to understand why a recommendation for a decision was made. At 7Learnings specifically, we use predictions to help with different decision options. We have additionally implemented a few measures to build trust in our solution: Explainable AI: It is important for retail pricing optimization to avoid being a black box.

I still remember the first time I created an AI fashion image. It was in 2024, which feels like yesterday in some senses, but a lot more distant when you put it on the compressed timeline of technology. I took a photo of one of our Blue Vanilla dresses on a mannequin, using my ageing iPhone, with nothing but flat, natural lighting.

Hey, welcome back to The Interline Podcast. We’ve talked about wearable technology on this show before, and we’ve certainly done it on The Edit, which is our Tuesday show with me and Grace. We’ve covered jewellery and accessories plenty of times in the past as well. What we haven’t done, I don’t think, is talk about where those two things cross over.

SHANGHAI, CHINA and LONDON, UK – SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 – Coats Digital and Orient International Holding  jointly announced today that Orient Rongheng has officially partnered with Coats Digital to deploy FastReactPlan to drive a comprehensive digital upgrade of its multi-factory production planning and scheduling processes across its global manufacturing network.

Paris, September 15, 2026 –Lectra announces the launch of Apogy, its cloud-based solution dedicated to product development, a critical phase between garment design and production. Nearly half a century after establishing the global standard for CAD solutions dedicated to the fashion industry, Lectra is opening a new chapter in history with Apogy.

Lana: When you look at the broader AI landscape, the lack of trust in fashion makes perfect sense. The industry has been overwhelmed by generative tools that produce stunning visuals, but from a manufacturing perspective, they’re essentially hallucinations. They don’t understand fabric physics or grading logic. In production, a mistake in a pattern isn’t just a bad pixel. It’s wasted fabric. It’s a financial liability. For Aiclo, trust is defined by real-world outcomes.

For most fashion brands, sustainability data has always been in two places at once: everywhere and nowhere.