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Category: FashionTech
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Glossy Pop Newsletter: How Meta leveraged Kylie Jenner, Peggy Gou and Substackers in its first
FashionTech this week: Meta launched its Meta Glasses line as a fashion house, not a tech gadget, using Kylie Jenner as the face of the; and Target and Parachute are launching a second home goods capsule collection, priced $12–$169, after…
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Poshmark opens its 120 million product listings to the Shazam of fashion
FashionTech this week: Poshmark is integrating its 120 million active listings into the visual-search app Silvr, allowing users to find; and Reformation has filed for an IPO, presenting a counter-narrative to the troubled DTC sector by…
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Digital Signals, Digital Product Passports Explained Prepare Compliance, and more.
Digital Signals this week: The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime, beginning enforcement in 2026, will treat data as a border control; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation, enacted under the 2024 Ecodesign for…
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AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI, Automation, And Platform Shifts this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and Coats Digital, a provider of manufacturing software for the apparel industry…
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Fashion Signals, Fashion PLM Blog Tech Packs Costing Production Supply, and more.
Fashion Signals this week: The fashion industry’s AI adoption is bifurcating between proven commerce applications and experimental design; and Kobolabs.
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SML’s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award
FashionTech this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag won the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award, validating a unified digital; and Tunicotex Group, a Tunisian knitwear manufacturer supplying luxury brands like Hugo Boss and…
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Circular Fashion and Textile Recycling, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Circular Fashion and Textile Recycling this week: A consortium led by Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at; and Vinted’s €8B secondary valuation and reported position as the UK’s…
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AI and Data-Driven Fashion Retail, AI-Driven Apparel Image Retrieval, and more.
AI and Data-Driven Fashion Retail this week: This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Integrated impact of image; and PatSnap’s 2026 analysis of apparel size recommendation patents reveals a shift…
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Digital Product Passports and RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports and RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, an embedded RFID tag designed to survive garment washing and dyeing, has won a; and RAIN RFID adoption is shifting from operational efficiency to…
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SML’s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award
FashionTech this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID embedded tag has received the 2026 SEAL Sustainable Product Award; and Tunisian knitwear manufacturer Tunicotex Group implemented Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan, replacing manual.