The Interline Podcast

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-week

Daydream'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 features: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/raspberry-ai-transforms-fashion-brands-123300405.html?guccounter=1

Product development and AI: https://wwd.com/sourcing-journal/industry-news/lectra-agentic-artificial-intelligence-apogy-fashion-1239240732/

And whether AI is going to kill us all, or, more likely, put elements of the fashion value chain at risk: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-exactly-could-ai-kill-us

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.

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.

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 onto the shopfloor: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-launches-ai-agent-blueprints-retailers-ahead-holiday-shopping-season-2026-09-02/ and https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview

New EU strategies to try and remove the incentives for fast fashion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2792pendro

And Gen Z's relationship with... gen AI and fashion in general: https://puck.news/gen-z-has-trust-issues-with-fashion/

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.