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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.

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01:07:39

Is AI Already Good Enough For Fashion?

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2026/10/08

When it comes to visually representing a product, and building alignment around that visualisation, brands and retailers are placing some serious bets on the capabilities of both general-purpose frontier models and fashion-specific tooling. But is AI “good enough” to change the overall go-to-market trajectory?To evaluate both sides, Ben talks to Marco Marchesi, CTO of The Fabricant.

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00:30:11

BNPL Meets Repair, An AI-Shaped Holiday, Tech ROI...

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2026/10/06

For this week's quickfire analysis of the fashion technology headlines, Grace and Ben tackle:Klarna and Save Your Wardrobe's BNPL / repair partnership - https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/klarna-launches-care-repair-feature-in-uk-and-france-to-boost-apparel-lifespan/2026093090624Adobe's analysis of the role AI is set to play in a potentially bumper holiday season - https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/09/adobe-us-holiday-shopping-season-to-hit-recorda16z's occasionally-useful second-edition State Of

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00:58:50

How Much Will Fashion Let AI Decide?

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2026/10/01

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 assisting to automating decision-making, paired with a move away from traditional interfaces. How much is fashion really comfortable letting AI decide today, and how fast is that frontier likely to move?To find out, Ben talks to Rupert Schiessl, Chief Strategy & AI Officer for Bamboo Rose.

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00:28:54

Robots On The Runway, AI ‘Showrooming,’ Smart...

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2026/09/29

In this week's analysis of the top fashion technology headlines, Grace and Ben run through:Unitree robots on the Vogue World runway - https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/vogue-sent-robots-down-the-runway-at-vogue-world-and-people-were-not-impressed/Gen Z using AI to 'showroom' in physical stores - https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/Ai-influences-62-of-gen-z-in-store-spending-wearables-increasingly-being-used-in-process-report,1868455.htmlBig banks raising the flag on the risks of agentic commerce -

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00:57:34

The Future Of Fashion’s Social Strategies

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2026/09/24

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 tech-led evolution of creators into something more closely resembling traditional media. Ben sits down with Bryony Barker, Global Strategy Director for Pulse Advertising, to discuss what’s next for brand marketing.

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00:29:14

Fashion Week, On-Device Models, AI-Native Product...

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2026/09/22

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 push into fashion weeks: https://www.vogue.com/article/how-googles-ai-tools-factored-into-new-york-fashion-weekDaydream's integration with iOS on-device AI: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/fashion-discovery-app-daydream-uses-apple-intelligence-to-help-you-shop-the-outfits-saved-in-your-camera-roll/Generative workspaces launching tech pack

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00:49:41

The Case For Making Wearable Medical Technology More...

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2026/09/17

Deafmetal Founder Jenni Ahtiainen, who designs jewellery and safety accessories for hearing devices, shares a different vantage point on the relationship between wearable medical technology and self-expression, and talks to Ben about what overcoming the stigma attached to hearing loss could tell us about a much bigger emerging category.

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00:41:36

Fashion’s Ongoing Dance With Deferred Payment Credit

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2026/09/10

Fintech platforms have become increasingly tied to brands' and retailers' pursuit of growth in customers, ABV, and GMV. But with new guardrails applied to buy-now-pay-later, and the cost of living rising, could card-linked instalments be different enough to change things?To dissect fashion's relationship with deferred payment credit, Ben sits down with Alex Forsyth-Thompson, Founder & CEO of Float.

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00:28:03

eCommerce, Shopper Passports, MHS, Fees & Gen Zs

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2026/09/08

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 contributed to: https://www.businessoffashion.com/reports/sports/bof-insights-amazon-fashion-sports-europe-e-commerce-report/ The first and second-hand use cases for "Shopper Passports": https://www.ecomid.com/blog/seed-round/Anthropic's holiday-season retail blueprints, and the potential for the Model Hardware Standard to reach beyond the lab and

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00:59:54

How Far Can Generative Tooling For Fashion Go?

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2026/09/03

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 ready in the technical spaces in between. AI creative platform FLORA, which raised more than $40 million at the start of this year, and which just launched Fashion Studio (its first verticalised toolkit) wants to try and do it all. But how far can generative tooling for fashion really go?To find out, Ben talks to Weber Wong, FLORA's CEO.

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01:11:33

Mailroom #1

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2026/09/01

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 couple ourselves.In this first show, we tackle audience questions about the forces impacting mass market brands, the dangers of AI visualisation substituting for fabric simulation, what it looks like to start a new brand in 2026, how gaussian splatting works for fabrics and finished products, where AI adoption in fashion is highest, and why

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00:49:54

Will The Web-Native Playbook Work For Digital Product...

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2026/08/27

Collaborative 2D design has become defined by 'multiplayer' web applications like Figma and Canva. 3D fashion is still mostly desktop-bound and singleplayer, so could it follow suit?One startup, Fabra, thinks so, and this week Ben set out to quiz its Co-Founders, Luke Grana and Gloria Yu, about the technical underpinnings, the potential addressable market, and whether creative professionals really want the rest of the company in their space.

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00:26:11

AI Video On The Shopfloor And In-Store, Defence...

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2026/08/25

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 scenarios: https://www.theinterline.com/2026/08/19/coats-digital-launches-gsd-realmotion-to-replace-stopwatch-time-studies-with-ai-powered-motion-analysis/The use of similar AI vision software in reducing theft-related shrinkage in stores, with some concerning potential risks:

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00:58:14

The Legal Frontiers Of AI In Fashion

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2026/08/20

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 of its own.Today, Ben talks to Anthony "Tony" Lupo, Chairman of legal firm ArentFox Schiff, and US general counsel for a roster of global fashion and retail brands, including Diane von Furstenberg, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Fila, Lacoste, Diesel, and Christian Louboutin.Tony also runs Fashion Counsel, a pre-eminent legal blog for the

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00:27:16

Live Shopping, MCP Intelligence, AI Sustainability...

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2026/08/17

This week, Grace and Ben debate five new fashion technology headlines.Live shopping platform Whatnot's new $20 billion valuation: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/whatnot-live-shopping-valuation-20-billion.htmlThe ongoing launch of MCP connectors for intelligence and creative platforms: https://edited.com/products/mcp/A BoF analysis of how AI ranks and enshrines sustainability language:

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00:26:39

Shopping, Sizing, Social, AI Strategy, And Domestic...

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2026/08/12

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 and Perplexity: https://easternherald.com/2026/08/05/perplexity-comet-amazon-ninth-circuit-ruling/ Several surveys, and reporting, on the reasons that brands are not realising value from their AI investments: https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/technology/the-reason-your-ai-investments-arent-paying-off/ Pinterest's expansion into the

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00:59:46

What Business Spend Data Really Says About AI Adoption

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2026/08/06

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, what does fashion need to know about the economics of AI?To find out, Ben talks to Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp, and one of the people behind the widely-cited AI Index.Useful reading:Ara's research at Ramp — https://ramp.com/authors/ara-kharazianRamp Economics Lab — https://ramp.com/dataRamp AI Index — https://ramp.com/data/ai-indexEcon

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00:23:04

AI Meets 3D Printing, Composable eCommerce, SHEIN's...

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2026/08/04

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: https://config.figma.com/san-francisco/session/349f94c6-628e-40ff-9f90-119750e60bfa/Then they pick up three industry headlines to analyse, quickfire style, rather than the usual five.Salesforce's investment in Callimacus:

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00:47:35

Why Fashion Still Over-Develops

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2026/07/30

Despite decades’ worth of technology adoption and transformation initiatives, brands, on average, develop far more materials and style than they, or the market, actually need.Ben talks to Liza Amlani, author of The Material Life and Co-Founder of Retail Strategy Group, to understand where overdevelopment stems from, and what needs to change to help curb it.

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00:25:12

Clothing Destruction, Cybersecurity and AI,...

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2026/07/28

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 destruction of unsold clothing: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/ban-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-enters-application-2026-07-17_enAn unprecedented AI cybersecurity moment... or a marketing stunt? https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/The explosion in maturity of open-weights Chinese models, and the

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