Market Intelligence

Insights for the people who actually build the clothes.

Two report series, free to read. The Adstronaut Index covers the business of fashion. The Adstronaut Edit reads the season — what's selling now and what to build next.

The Business of Fashion

The Adstronaut Index — quarterly intelligence on trade, AI, margins and the numbers operators manage to.

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The Adstronaut Index · Quarterly · Q2 2026

The State of AI in Fashion

Fashion has voted AI its single biggest opportunity — and is still failing to ship it. The gap between conviction and deployment is now the defining c…

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The Adstronaut Index · Quarterly · Q1 2026

The Trade Reset

In four days of February, fashion's trade math was struck down, rewritten and re-billed. The quarter that followed sorted the industry into companies …

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Trends & What to Build

The Adstronaut Edit — seasonal trend reports with receipts: the colours, shapes and materials selling now, and what to build next.

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The Adstronaut Edit · Seasonal · SS26

The Return of Colour

After two years of beige discipline, SS26 is selling on colour, wit and conviction — butter yellow and cobalt at the front, poetic romance behind, and…

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The Adstronaut Edit · Seasonal · AW26

The Debut Dividend

Five new creative directors showed their hands in February and March — and the market voted immediately. AW26 arrives fitted, lit in lighter browns an…

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