Stella McCartney Tests Live Luxury, Mango Goes Blockchain, Goddiva Adds AI Stylist
Stella McCartney & Eva Mendes reimagine live shopping with Bambuser; Mango maps 40M garments on the blockchain; and Goddiva launches a GPT-5 shopping assistant.
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e-commerce
A collection of 12 issues
Bestseller’s AI Wholesale Bet, OneOff’s “Spotify for Fashion,” and Tariffs' Ongoing Impact
Bestseller debuts Hypedrop to design via real-time data; OneOff fuses AI and influencer commerce; U.S. tariffs continue to disrupt textile economies from India to Vietnam.
Amazon’s AI Glasses, Target’s Trend Brain, Zalando’s Robot Fleet
Retail giants are going all in on automation: Amazon with smart delivery glasses, Target with generative design tools, and Zalando with AI robots.
Humanoid Models, Smarter Merchandising, and AI With Taste
Noetix’s robot takes to the catwalk in Paris; AI tools tackling fashion’s $140B overproduction problem; Zelig’s styling engine blending data with intuition.
Walmart expands AR fitting with Zeekit, Presq 3D-prints open-source shoes, Recovo turns deadstock into circular gold
Walmart’s Zeekit brings virtual try-ons mainstream; Presq teams up with Bambu Lab to release an open-source, fully wearable 3D-printed shoe anyone can make and customize; and Barcelona startup Recovo builds a B2B marketplace turning surplus textiles into traceable, circular materials.
Shopify plugs merchants into ChatGPT, DressX builds AI department store, Ralph Lauren’s AI gets a road test
Shopify now lets shoppers buy directly inside ChatGPT conversations; DressX launches Agent, an AI try-on and styling platform dubbed “the ChatGPT for fashion”; and a fashion editor test-drives Ralph Lauren’s Ask Ralph AI.
Microsoft brings fashion discovery to Copilot; Recycling at scale; Rent the Runway’s AI reboot; Nigeria’s first fashion tech summit
Microsoft teams with Curated for You to bring shoppable fashion into Copilot; Textile-to-textile recyclers scale plants to turn clothing waste into raw material; Rent the Runway doubles down on AI personalization and a $100M recapitalization; Nigeria debuts its first fashion tech conference.
Flip shuts-down, MySize acquires ShoeSize.Me, 'Banana AI Saree' trend
Flip’s $1B fashion app collapses; MySize buys ShoeSize.Me to fix fit; Google’s Nano Banana saree trend goes viral.
Ralph's styling bot, Tagg Me launches, Fashion's knockoff challenge
Ralph Lauren launches Ask Ralph AI stylist; Tagg Me debuts personalized shopping extension; Independent designers fight AI-fueled fast fashion knockoffs.
Nano Banana raises the bar, Zalando loses EU court fight, hyper-personalised shopping is here
Google’s new AI image model brings brand-quality visuals to the masses; Zalando’s failed DSA appeal signals fashion platforms face Big Tech-level scrutiny; and AI fashion agents like Gensmo are turning online shopping into a hyper-personalised experience.