Stitch Fix, SHEIN, AI Search Volumes, Coperni Shuttering, And The Political Pendulum-Swing

This week on The Edit, Grace and Ben have picked a new slate of fashion technology stories to apply their quickfire analysis to. A case study of how Stitch Fix has parlayed a decade or more's data into a flywheel for its private label brands: https://www.modernretail.co/operations/how-stitch-fix-is-using-ai-and-customer-feedback-to-build-its-private-brands/ A story about SHEIN's plans to build local hubs in Europe: https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/11/shein-to-invest-e500m-in-european-hub-as-eu-parcel-charges-hit-profits/ New data from McKinsey and Big Technology about agentic commerce adoption and the growing share of search that comes through AI: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/who-wins-when-ai-does-the-shopping-new-evidence-on-agentic-commerce#/ and https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/openai-chatgpt-search-is-about-20 The news that the tech-provocateurs behind Coperni are having to close the brand, and our take on their legacy of robots and spray-on materials: https://www.designboom.com/design/coperni-closes-revisiting-fashion-label-strangest-experiments-technology/ The sea-change in US politics, and what it might mean for fashion's future ambitions for AI: https://www.404media.co/there-is-one-fight-american-voters-reject-tech-oligarchy/ and https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/big-tech-claims-voters-ai-backlash-is-anti-trump-not-anti-tech/