Fashion
The Download: By The Cap Founders Emma & Charlotte Are Fixing Fashion’s Overwhelm Problem
If you’ve ever stood before a heaving wardrobe and declared, with total sincerity, that you have nothing to wear – Emma Watkinson and Charlotte Dare built a business for you. And they arrived at it the credible way: by spending over a decade running the machine they’re now correcting. “Charlotte and I spent over a…
Read MoreLouis Vuitton’s Biggest Innovation This Season Isn’t A Bag. It’s Silk Tech.
Silk, in the domestic imagination, is not a material so much as a temperament. It creases if you look at it. It is hand-wash, cold, lay flat, handle with care, don’t ask. Louis Vuitton would like to file a formal objection. At Pharrell Williams’ Autumn/Winter 2026 menswear show in Paris, the house introduced a new…
Read MoreAnti-AI Surveillance Jewellery Is Here – And It’s Disturbingly Beautiful
Why we care: Your face is now a password, a payment method and a data point – scanned at airports, unlocked at checkouts, mapped by systems you never opted into. So perhaps it was inevitable that fashion would respond. Enter DYSKINESIAA: a Paris atelier casting sterling silver “grafts” for the face, marketed with a question…
Read MoreCatherine Warrilow Is The Erin Brockovich Of Vinted
A grassroots campaign alleges the platform’s AI moderation is banning legitimate sellers at scale, freezing their money and hiding the appeals process behind more AI. It’s become one of the fastest-growing UK consumer campaigns of the year, powered by a TikTok channel posting daily – and it’s a preview of a much bigger question: what…
Read MoreThe Clueless Closet Grows Up: Whering Hits 10 Million Users
Every millennial woman has spent three decades waiting for Cher Horowitz’s rotating virtual wardrobe to become real. It did – and now it has 10 million users, backing from eBay and Google, and data suggesting it’s actually changing how we shop. The most interesting fashion-tech story of the year isn’t about buying more. It’s about…
Read MoreKylie Jenner Just Became The Face, And Voice, of Meta’s AI Glasses
Meta has dropped the Ray-Ban name, launched its first in-house eyewear line, and handed Kylie Jenner the keys to the whole conversation. The smartest detail isn’t the gem on the lens – it’s the voice in your ear. Meta has retired the Ray-Ban and Oakley branding it has leaned on for years and launched its…
Read MoreSnapchat Made AR Glasses Chic – and Got Kaia Gerber to Prove It
Snap Inc. (yes, aka Snapchat’s parent company) has unveiled SPECS: a wearable computer built into a pair of see-through augmented reality glasses. They went up for pre-order this week at specs.com for £1,995 – with a refundable deposit to hold your place – and are expected to ship this autumn in the UK, US and…
Read MoreDepop’s New AI Mirror Styles You in Real Time
Anyone who has ever bought something on Depop knows the specific leap of faith involved. You find the perfect vintage Carhartt jacket or the exact slip dress you’ve been hunting for months, photographed in a stranger’s bedroom against a radiator and a half-closed Ikea wardrobe, and you have to extrapolate from one grainy image whether…
Read MoreAnnie’s Ibiza Just Wrapped an E1 Electric Raceboat In Couture
There is a particular kind of cognitive whiplash that comes from watching a couture dress get translated onto the hull of a 30-knot electric raceboat. On 28 May, in the harbour of Ibiza Old Town, that is precisely what happened – and somehow, against a backdrop of several hundred cobalt-blue gin bottles, it made total…
Read MoreVirtual Try-On, AI Stylist, Built-In Group Chat: Meet WNTD, The Shopping App That “Gets” Gen Z
Be honest about how you actually shop. You see a coat on someone’s story. You screenshot it. You reverse-image-search it at 1am, find it on three sites at three prices, drop it into the group chat with “thoughts??”, get two thumbs-up and one “the colour washes you out,” add it to a basket, leave it…
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