AI is rapidly conquering the fashion industry. While one company waits, another leads the way. Outlet platform Otrium uses artificial intelligence both behind the scenes in the warehouse and at the forefront with generative AI content. Co-founder Milan Daniels explains how this makes the company faster, smarter, and more customer-focused. He...
Oct 14, 2025
Manchester Met’s Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI) has opened its doors to its Robotics Living Lab (RoLL), a manufacturing lab where fashion businesses and researchers can access modernised and sustainable production methods. Here, it will be possible to utilise the site’s collaborative robotic technology, also known as ‘cobots’, which MFI said...
Feb 27, 2025
When we talk about innovation in the fashion industry, we usually think about new fabrics, production methods or designs. But innovation is certainly also of the utmost importance in the supply chain, especially when improving business processes is concerned. There are currently a multitude of interesting developments in the pipeline; from...
Jun 28, 2021
Lisbon - "In ten years time there will be robots in our stores, what they do there exactly, how they are used, I do not know yet, but they will be there, I'm sure." That's what Daniel Grieder, CEO of Tommy Hilfiger, said on Thursday at the internet technology congress Web Summit that took place last week in Lisbon. Grieger, a self-declared...
Nov 12, 2018
The fashion industry thrives on looking into the future. Typically it is only looks a few seasons ahead, but recently some designers are using shows to look into the distant future. Megatrends such as robotics are being featured on the runways more and more mixing present with future. On the catwalk in London, a robot is set to present the...
Sep 14, 2018
According to the website willrobotstakemyjob.com the retail industry is “doomed”. The American-based site saw over 300,000 searches in December, which allows users to enter their job titles in the quest to find out how likely it is for their jobs to be replaced by automation and robots. According to the site, a colossal 47 percent of US jobs are...
Jan 11, 2018
In 2015, SoftWear Automation introduced a new robot called LOWRY, a sewing robot that can make up to 17 shirts an hour, much faster than a human sewing line. The selling point SoftWear Automation is trying to drive home is their robotic sewing machine can replace a line of 10 workers and produce 1,142 t-shirts in an eight-hour period, compared...
Sep 1, 2017
As I welcome a new group of design students to my class this week, I find myself contemplating this question as the buzz around Artificial Intelligence heats up. StitchFix, a Silicon Valley-based subscription box service, already uses algorithms based on customer feedback to create the perfect blouse. Styles are broken down into variables––a...
Aug 30, 2017
London - The future of manufacturing is much closer, and more local than you think. Footwear retailer Clarks is set to open a UK factory and bring part of its manufacturing back home. The move sees the British retailer return to local production more than a decade after it first shifted its production abroad, as the family-held Clarks seeks to...
Jul 5, 2017
