The Interline Podcast

The Interline

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.

  1. 1d ago

    How 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 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.

    How Far Can Generative Tooling For Fashion Go?

  2. 3d ago

    Mailroom #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 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 we don't talk about open-weights AI as much as we should. Featuring: Hannah Crump, Director of BoF Insights at The Business Of FashionYazan Malkosh, Founder & CEO at SwatchbookAdriana Pereira, Co-Founder and CMO at The FabricantVlad Mulhelm, who's the CEO at Voxelo

    Mailroom #1

  3. Aug 27

    Will 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, 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.

    Will The Web-Native Playbook Work For Digital Product Creation?

  4. Aug 25

    AI 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 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: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/humiliated-sainsburys-store-pauses-ai-scanning-after-false-shoplifting-accusation and https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/icelands-use-of-crime-fighting-ai-reduces-theft-losses-by-80/722607.articleThe USA's FutureTEX initiative, and the relationship between reshoring and defense spending: https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/08/georgia-tech-chosen-founding-partner-pentagon-initiative-rebuild-us-textileThe groundswell of anti-social media sentiment, and how it's spilling over into the way LLMs are packaged and sold for younger people: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/18/2026/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-opensA side order of Niles, the new mascot for Crocs: https://investors.crocs.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-release-details/2026/Crocs-Introduces-Niles-New-Mascot-Launches-a-Bold-New-Era-of-Character-Driven-Storytelling/default.aspxAnd finally a new segment on investments and acquisitions:Higgsfield's new valuation: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/higgsfields-valuation-soars-fourfold-54-billion-six-months-ai-content-demand-2026-08-17/Anthropic potentially buying Decart: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billionDimension's bid to operationalise TikTok Shop: https://www.latimes.com/b2b/ai-technology/story/2026-08-12/dimension-seed-funding-seller-os

    AI Video On The Shopfloor And In-Store, Defence Spending On Textiles, And Anti-Social Sentiment

  5. Aug 20

    The 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 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 fashion industry. Together, they run through some of our readers' top concerns about the legal ramifications of AI, from likenesses / personas and model releases, to Fair Use, the EU AI Act, the expanding risk surface of brands extending what they know about consumers, and why brands haven't gone after the creators of image generation models that can reproduce their logos, colours, and other elements on command.

    The Legal Frontiers Of AI In Fashion

  6. Aug 17

    Live 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: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/whatnot-live-shopping-valuation-20-billion.html The 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: https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/sustainability/can-you-trust-ai-to-tell-you-which-brands-are-sustainable/ New fuel for the argument that AI infrastructure is becoming a precarious financial instrument: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/11/ai-lending-rules-loosened-despite-bubble-fears/ A interesting example of a brand targeting a very different demographic through gaming: https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/fragrance/jo-malone-london-bergamot-sea-salt-fragrance-fortnite-game-1239097352/

    Live Shopping, MCP Intelligence, AI Sustainability And Lending Risks, And Mum Fragrances In Fortnite

  7. Aug 12

    Shopping, 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 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 physical world, and the dominance of shopping in social media: https://www.retail-week.com/stores-and-property/pinterest-invests-in-new-london-office-as-part-of-new-era-of-shopping-vision/7051782.articleNew data that suggests people taking GLP-1 class medications are more likely to visit stores, and the implications for sizing and commerce: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/glp-1-users-in-store-clothes-shopping-trip-is-back-2026-08-02/A feel-good story from New Balance's UK factory, with some slightly more complicated context: https://fashionunited.uk/news/fashion/new-balance-unveils-new-outdoor-space-for-factory-workers/2026080589618

    Shopping, Sizing, Social, AI Strategy, And Domestic Shoe Manufacturing

  8. Aug 6

    What 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, 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 Lab newsletter — https://econlab.substack.com/

    What Business Spend Data Really Says About AI Adoption
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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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  • Creator
    The Interline
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    82
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