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The Interline Podcast
Twice-weekly technology shows for fashion and beauty professionals.
The Edit releases Tuesdays: a quickfire show analysing five headlines from across fashion and technology, in a conversational format designed to fit your commute. Hosted by Social Editor Grace Robinson.
The interview show releases Thursdays: deep one-on-one debates with brand and technology executives, hosted by Editor-in-Chief, Ben Hanson.
Find daily editorials, reports, analysis, stories and more at The Interline.
Episodes
The Interline PodcastWhat It Takes To Run A Fashion Brand With A Social Conscience
TOAST's Brand Director, Rosie McKissock, joins Ben to talk about how the brand's social conscience shapes material choices, supplier relationships, and the…
The Interline PodcastPHP, Generative Tech Packs, And The State Of Clothing Repair
This week's edition of The Edit is a little shorter than usual, to accommodate the team's travel, but Grace and Ben still find time to analyse: The scale and…
The Interline PodcastWhat 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…
The Interline PodcastGetty Bankruptcy, AI Agents And Accountability, Circuits In Yarns, And Retail Cybersecurity
Grace and Ben debate the top fashion technology headlines from the last week. This time around: Getty Images is going bankrupt. Is AI solely to blame? -…
The Interline PodcastIs 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…
The Interline PodcastASOS Hacked, Amazon's About You, Climate Sourcing Risk, AI Consolidation, And Microfibres
Grace and Ben analyse the most interesting fashion technology news headlines from the last week. This week's stories: Personal data and shopping queries were…
The Interline PodcastIs AI Already Good Enough For Fashion?
When it comes to visually representing a product, and building alignment around that visualisation, brands and retailers are placing some serious bets on the…
The Interline PodcastBNPL Meets Repair, An AI-Shaped Holiday, Tech ROI Analysis, And In-Store VTO
For this week's quickfire analysis of the fashion technology headlines, Grace and Ben tackle: Klarna and Save Your Wardrobe's BNPL / repair partnership -…
The Interline PodcastHow Much Will Fashion Let AI Decide?
Our data shows that fashion’s use of AI is outpacing its willingness to trust it with important choices. But technology vendors see a clear progression from…
The Interline PodcastRobots On The Runway, AI ‘Showrooming,’ Smart Glasses, And Muse Agent’s Mascot
In this week's analysis of the top fashion technology headlines, Grace and Ben run through: Unitree robots on the Vogue World runway -…
The Interline PodcastThe Future Of Fashion’s Social Strategies
Social media and influencer marketing have made big marks on fashion - and vice versa - but strategies are changing as a result of both synthetic content and…
The Interline PodcastFashion Week, On-Device Models, AI-Native Product Development, And Doomerism
This week on The Edit, Grace and Ben acceptable the inevitable and have a whole show dedicated to talking about AI for fashion in different forms. Google's…
The Interline PodcastThe Case For Making Wearable Medical Technology More Visible
Deafmetal Founder Jenni Ahtiainen, who designs jewellery and safety accessories for hearing devices, shares a different vantage point on the relationship…
The Interline PodcastFashion’s Ongoing Dance With Deferred Payment Credit
Fintech platforms have become increasingly tied to brands' and retailers' pursuit of growth in customers, ABV, and GMV. But with new guardrails applied to…
The Interline PodcasteCommerce, Shopper Passports, MHS, Fees & Gen Zs
This week on The Edit, Ben and Grace are on a quickfire tour of: The state of fashion & sports eCommerce, pulling from a new BoF report that Ben also…
The Interline PodcastHow Far Can Generative Tooling For Fashion Go?
The market perception is that generative AI is most mature at the beginning and end of the product journey, where products can exist as pictures, and least…
The Interline PodcastMailroom #1
The first edition of our sporadic Mailroom series, where we put listeners' fashion technology questions to industry friends and experts, as well as answering a…
The Interline PodcastWill The Web-Native Playbook Work For Digital Product Creation?
Collaborative 2D design has become defined by 'multiplayer' web applications like Figma and Canva. 3D fashion is still mostly desktop-bound and singleplayer…
The Interline PodcastAI Video On The Shopfloor And In-Store, Defence Spending On Textiles, And Anti-Social Sentiment
This week, Grace and Ben talk about: The release of GSD RealMotion, and the vote of confidence it represents in the accuracy of AI in high-stakes shopfloor…
The Interline PodcastThe Legal Frontiers Of AI In Fashion
Every industry is wrestling with the same big-ticket AI questions around fair use, labelling, and disclosure. But fashion has a set of AI legal quandaries all…
The Interline PodcastLive Shopping, MCP Intelligence, AI Sustainability And Lending Risks, And Mum Fragrances In Fortnite
This week, Grace and Ben debate five new fashion technology headlines. Live shopping platform Whatnot's new $20 billion valuation…
The Interline PodcastShopping, Sizing, Social, AI Strategy, And Domestic Shoe Manufacturing
This week, with a slight delay, Grace and Ben discuss: The ongoing tension between retailers and AI agents, and the reversed injunction in the case of Amazon…
The Interline PodcastWhat Business Spend Data Really Says About AI Adoption
Fifty-five per cent of American businesses now pay for AI. But what are companies actually buying, and who are they buying it from? And, more specifically…
The Interline PodcastAI Meets 3D Printing, Composable eCommerce, SHEIN's Valuation, And AI Shopping As A Service
This week, Grace and Ben from the usual weekly format slightly and bring on Danit Peleg, fresh off her AI-meets-3D-printing presentation at Figma Config…
The Interline PodcastWhy Fashion Still Over-Develops
Despite decades’ worth of technology adoption and transformation initiatives, brands, on average, develop far more materials and style than they, or the…
The Interline PodcastClothing Destruction, Cybersecurity and AI, Affordability, And UK-EU Politics
This week, Grace and Ben discuss a diverse mix of fashion technology stories, although AI is still front and centre. The European Commission's ban on the…
The Interline PodcastThe Case For Creating A New, Digital-Native Luxury Group
Groups and conglomerates have dominated luxury for decades, but recent attempts to forge new ones have floundered. A new Irish group, steeped in the country’s…
The Interline PodcastBespoke Technology, BNPL, Mystery Boxes, AI Advisory, And A Case Study In Bad Fit
Grace and Ben debate the top fashion headlines, including... The push and pull between bespoke and general purpose AI, and off-the-shelf vs. custom technology…
The Interline PodcastCan 3D Weaving Make Domestic Production Viable?
Arne Arens made the unusual leap from being a brand executive to leading a technology company in fashion’s most unforgiving segment: manufacturing innovation…
The Interline PodcastAn AI Likeness Free-For-All, Social Impact, Cataloguing, Sorting, And Persuasion
This week, Ben and Grace discuss: The launch of Meta's Muse image model, with opt-out likeness tagging - and the ongoing battle between human models are the…
The Interline PodcastFinding The Feeling In AI Campaigns
Zalando has pushed further than perhaps any other company in embedding generative AI into its content creation - from product page materials to full-blown…
The Interline PodcastSubstack, Politics, Surveillance, Scaling Recycling, And Labelling AI
For this week's edition of The Edit - the quickfire fashion technology analysis show from The Interline - Ben and Grace talk about... Fashion's place in…
The Interline PodcastThe High Bar For Disrupting Knitting
Outside of software itself, knitting is probably the closest thing fashion has to coding: a verifiable, binary discipline defined by scarce talent, and…
The Interline PodcastSocial Bans, Smart Glasses, Programmatic AI, And Heat-Tech
In this week's quickfire analysis, Social Editor Grace Robinson quizzes Editor-In-Chief Ben Hanson on: The UK’s under-sixteen social media ban and the race to…
The Interline PodcastThe Forking Path From Invention To Industrialisation
Upstream innovation, in materials, processing, and production, has had a chequered few years. Promising pilots routinely fail to take flight or achieve…
The Interline PodcastRisk, Reward, And Cultural Pushback on AI In Fashion - And A New Play For the Secondary Market
This week on The Edit: five fresh headline stories from across fashion and technology receive the quickfire analysis treatment. First: Anthropic releases and…
The Interline PodcastThe Future Of Fashion’s Thirst For Water
Fashion devotes a lot of time to securing its inputs, but the importance of water to the industry’s supply chain goes under-discussed, and water is not…
The Interline PodcastAI VTO, Automation, Lawsuits, Personalisation, And Live Shopping
The first edition of The Edit, a new weekly show where Social Editor Grace interviews Editor-in-Chief Ben about five headline stories from across fashion and…
The Interline PodcastProving Out The Pre-Loved Luxury Model
The case is strong for someone to own the secondary market, but whether that winds up being first or third-party ownership will depend as much on platforms and…
The Interline PodcastIs Innovation Shaping Storytelling Or Vice Versa?
Fashion and beauty are surrounded by digital surfaces and physical spaces, and technology has fast become a fixture of how the higher echelons of both…
The Interline PodcastEarning The Right To Replace Spreadsheets
Fashion professionals, particularly in planning-related disciplines, are tasked with making a lot of decisions. The environment those choices live in is still…
The Interline PodcastThe Image Trade Is Booming. Can The Trust Economy Keep Up?
The unit economics of replacing product photography with either wholly-generated or AI-edited images are, from a rational perspective, pretty clear-cut. But…
The Interline PodcastScience, Sustainability, And The Slow March Of Reality
Despite individual brand efforts, fashion’s footprint has continued to grow. The upshot might not be immediately catastrophic, but a slow set of signals are…
The Interline PodcastWhat’s Really Inside A Forecast?
Every field that deals in data is figuring out where the boundary sits between analytical models and human judgment. When that data pertains to culture and…
The Interline PodcastSustainability Through A Different Lens
Ben talks to Joe Mountain, Sustainability Manager at N Brown Group, about how a combination of hard-coded values around size and price inclusivity, a…
The Interline PodcastWill A Drive For Shared Truth Bring Fashion Back Around To Blockchain?
Outside of art, fashion has had perhaps the most divisive relationship with blockchain of any sector. But the same principles and the same technology behind…
The Interline PodcastWhat’s The Deal With Design Operations?
Repeatedly turning creativity into the right product outcomes can feel like an exercise in luck. Can pairing digital product creation with an operationalised…
The Interline PodcastLoyalty, Lockers, “Glocal,” And Other Lessons From An International Logistics Hub
Ben talks to Oliwia Guziel, to get a snapshot of the automations and integrations behind eCommerce logistics at Decathlon’s Central European operations, and…
The Interline PodcastThe Push And Pull Of Tooling And Teaching For Design
From building repeatable systems to constantly updating their pipelines, seasoned and incoming designers are both working at the bleeding edge. What are they…
The Interline PodcastHow Fashion And Beauty Show Up In AI Search
From raw query visibility to market sentiment and authority, AI models search for, rank, and surface brands in a way that’s orthogonal to traditional SEO. Ben…
The Interline PodcastA Case Study In Deeply-Considered AI Development At Brunello Cucinelli
Almost as famous for its humanist philosophy as its luxury products, Brunello Cucinelli has also emerged as a lighthouse for AI - not by rushing recklessly…
The Interline PodcastWhy Supply Chains Matter More Than Ever
Ben talks to Kate Padget-Koh, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Squatwolf, about finding the delicate balance between upstream optimisation and innovation, and…
The Interline PodcastCan Technology Help New Entrants Break Into The Entrenched Eyewear Market?
With a business model dominated by licensing, and a heavily consolidated supply chain, eyewear has long been a hostile market for new designers. Now, additive…
The Interline PodcastWhat Went Wrong With Web3?
Ben, a well-documented Web3 skeptic who might still be wrong, is joined by digital fashion educator and entrepreneur Karinna Grant, to revisit the case for…
The Interline PodcastDigital Maturity In The Extended Supply Chain
The success of any comprehensive transformation initiative hinges not just on uptake on the brand side, but on the existence of class-leading capabilities…
The Interline PodcastThe Deepening Impact Of Digital Asset Management
A fundamental change in the definition of an “asset” - from a fixed form to a living object - and a userbase shift towards product creation teams are combining…
The Interline PodcastThe AI Logic And The Business Model Behind Virtual Fit
A strategic discussion with Nicola Bond, CEO and Founder of Fittora, about applying AI to one of fashion’s longest-standing technical challenges - and about…
The Interline PodcastPreparing eCommerce For The Next Citizens Of The Web
AI agents, agentic browsers, and language models equipped with tools - a new cohort of artificial shoppers could be on the horizon. But can the technology and…
The Interline PodcastAffordability, Domestic Supply Chains, And Sustainability
Ben is joined by Simon Platts, industry veteran and consultant, for a sideways look at the foundational pillars of the fashion business model - and why the…
The Interline PodcastDebating Digital Change And AI Convergence In 2026
Our first show of the new year brings together two insiders’ perspectives on emerging technology, education, software uptake, and whether 2026 will be the year…