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What If Visual Merchandisers Soon Had An AI Agent On Their Team?

From asset search to planograms, AI is making its way into Visual Merchandising. IWD, the Visual Merchandising software provider, is building it into its platform to automate, recommend and improve in-store performance. McKinsey estimates that merchants could reclaim up to 40% of their time by handing part of their manual, repetitive tasks over...

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Renzo Rosso: Google's virtual try-on boosts OTB's average spend

Renzo Rosso, chairman and founder of the Italian fashion group OTB Group (OTB), states that the Virtual Try-On tool developed with Google is starting to show its first results, including a higher average spend among customers who have used it. Rosso shared his vision on innovation, technology and artificial intelligence as the main speaker at...

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The battle before the search

Consumers are increasingly arriving through AI, recommendations, social platforms and marketplaces. The battle ahead will be how to influence recommendation engines, not simply ranking in search engines, explains Justin Thomas, VP Sales - EMEA North for Akeneo. Keywords, rankings and paid placements no longer hold the monopoly over discovery....

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Hold your nerve: why this autumn’s markdowns need more than a spreadsheet to be successful

It is 24 degrees in late September. The shop windows are full of wool coats, the shoppers walking past are in T-shirts, and a few doors down the first sale signs are already up. In a first look at markdown activity this September, our team at Markmi, which builds an AI-enabled markdown management assistant for fashion retailers, noticed a lot of...

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Burberry appoints former Superdry tech lead Dafydd Moore as VP of business technology

British luxury fashion house Burberry has appointed former Superdry director of global technology Dafydd Moore as its vice president of business technology. Moore announced his new appointment on social media, expressing enthusiasm for the new role following his departure from British clothing retailer Superdry. "After a fantastic chapter at...

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Ray-Ban expands Meta collection with audio-only glasses

Ray-Ban is expanding its collaboration with Meta with the launch of the Ray-Ban Meta Audio. This marks the eyewear brand's first audio-only AI glasses, enabling users to listen to music and podcasts, make phone calls and use Meta AI, according to a press release. The Ray-Ban Meta Audio weighs 43 grams and has a battery life of up to 12 hours....

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CLO Virtual Fashion Celebrates European 3D Community at Munich Summit, Marking 10 Years of Regional Growth

CLO Virtual Fashion, the global leader in digital garment solutions and developer of CLO and Marvelous Designer, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Munich office with the most impactful CLO Summit to date. The event brought together the European fashion and 3D community—300 professionals from leading brands including Lacoste, VIVIENNE...

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e-SCM Solutions and MyTower bring an end-to- end Supply Chain Execution approach to Logistik & Transport 2026

As supply chains become more interconnected, companies are increasingly looking beyond individual logistics tools to gain greater visibility and control across their operations. This shift will be among the topics in focus at Logistik & Transport 2026, taking place on 3 and 4 November at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg....

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Lectra launches AI-driven product development platform

French technology group Lectra has launched Apogy, a cloud-based platform that applies agentic artificial intelligence to fashion product development. The company describes it as the first solution to combine AI agents, product data and design processes in a single digital environment, covering the phase between garment design and production....

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Guess distribution for EMEA and Asia now runs on 127 robots

GXO Logistics and warehouse robotics provider Exotec have completed the deployment of an Exotec Skypod system at GXO's Venlo facility in the Netherlands, the site that handles fulfilment for Guess across EMEA and Asia. The two companies announced the deployment on Tuesday. The installation comprises 127 robots, 60,000 rack locations, eight...

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Supplier data leak: What fashion retailers need to know and do, according to experts

Three European retailers — Dutch department store De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam eyewear label Ace & Tate and German online fashion platform About You — disclosed customer data leaks in August. These companies faced the consequences of a cyber incident at logistics service provider Ceva Logistics, even though their own systems were not directly hacked....

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The fashion industry needs critical digital thinkers and makers, the new Digital Fashion Technology master's track trains them

Last academic year, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) completed the first edition of a new master's track: Digital Fashion Technology, whose second cohort of students started this month. The track was developed together with AMFI and the associated Fashion Research & Technology research group, and falls under the broader Master...