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THE WEEK IN FASHION TECH
Every funding round, product launch and shutdown in the sector, filed as it happens. No analysis. No opinion. Just the wire.
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Your DXF Pattern Archive: Which Tools Can Actually Use It
Most fashion brands treat their legacy DXF pattern archives as dead storage. This guide identifies the tools that can actually read, grade, and leverage that data for modern production.
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10 Fashion-Tech News Stories You Missed This Week: Aug 11–17 2026
Ten stories that moved fashion technology this week, from a major luxury retail acquisition to a record-breaking unicorn count and an industry event putting AI on the manufacturing agenda.
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AI-Native vs. AI-Sprinkle: How Fashion SaaS Vendors Are Splitting
The fashion-tech market has split into two camps: vendors rebuilding from the ground up and legacy players 'sprinkling' AI on old code. Here is how to tell them apart.
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IFCO Istanbul 2026: Five Takeaways on AI and Digital Manufacturing
The 10th IFCO Istanbul signaled a massive shift toward digital-first manufacturing. Here is what business leaders need to know about AI trust gaps and the 3D tech mandate.
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Supply Chain AI Trust Gap: Why Fashion Brands Are Stalling on Autonomy
New data reveals a massive gap between fashion's autonomous AI ambitions and actual operational readiness. We break down the trust hurdles and rising costs stalling the industry.
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Frasers Group Buys Harvey Nichols: Tech Implications for Luxury Retail
Frasers Group has confirmed its acquisition of Harvey Nichols, warning of a 'significant restructuring' that will likely overhaul the luxury retailer's legacy tech stack.
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Shein Loses UK Copyright Case Against Temu: What It Means for Brands
A recent London court decision has shifted the legal ground for ultra-fast fashion IP. Here is why your brand needs better design documentation now.
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Free resources
All resources →Funding announcement reader — facts, framing and what is not disclosed
A skill that reads a funding announcement the way an editor does before repeating a figure: ten checks (primary source, new round or extension, raised or valued, currency and date, lead or participant, equity or debt or grant, what they sell, stage versus age, who else reported it, what would need correcting), every claim sorted into fact, framing or not disclosed with the beneficiary of each framing claim named, then a five-line reader's note, three questions for the company and, on request, a wire line or a comparison with the previous round. Nothing from memory: what the text does not say is not disclosed. Runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Code.
Get the kit →Funding round tracker — log, check and roll up fashion-tech rounds
A 19-column tracker and the skill that fills it: paste a funding announcement and get one row with amount and currency as reported, round and round type (equity, extension, debt, grant), lead versus participants, what the company sells and the primary source — with every inferred value marked and every missing value written as TBC. It deduplicates against your sheet, checks it for the classic errors, rolls up a month with counts you can recompute and drafts one-line wire items. Runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code and, through an Apps Script menu, Google Sheets.
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