Fashion

Ralph Lauren’s new Ask Ralph turns a luxury stylist into an AI-powered, shoppable assistant—instant outfit suggestions, checkout buttons, and brand-grounded recommendations. Beyond convenience, it signals an industry shift: inventory-grounded agents, platform partnerships, and hidden operational costs that could reshape who captures value in fashion’s AI-driven commerce future and investor priorities.

Zalando has turned online fashion into a live GenAI lab—using avatars, distilled image models, and a newly acquired 3D pipeline to slash returns, speed outfit generation, and protect brands. Read how their production-first playbook—latency-focused models, automated QA, and legal-safe gates—rewrites industry benchmarks and forces rivals to follow at scale today.