Mailroom #1

The first edition of our sporadic Mailroom series, where we put listeners' fashion technology questions to industry friends and experts, as well as answering a couple ourselves.In this first show, we tackle audience questions about the forces impacting mass market brands, the dangers of AI visualisation substituting for fabric simulation, what it looks like to start a new brand in 2026, how gaussian splatting works for fabrics and finished products, where AI adoption in fashion is highest, and why we don't talk about open-weights AI as much as we should.Featuring:Hannah Crump, Director of BoF Insights at The Business Of FashionYazan Malkosh, Founder & CEO at SwatchbookAdriana Pereira, Co-Founder and CMO at The FabricantVlad Mulhelm, who's the CEO at Voxelo