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Fuse arrived in the Shopify Theme Store on 25 September 2026 with five ready-made storefronts, a signature frosted-glass interface no other theme ships, and the kind of immersive product pages fashion brands have been building from scratch until now.
There is a particular kind of storefront that fashion brands have been building by hand for years: full-bleed photography, a menu that floats over the image instead of boxing it in, a lookbook you can shop straight from, product pages that feel closer to a magazine spread than a catalogue row. It has usually meant a custom build, or a theme plus five apps and a developer on retainer.
Fuse, released in the Shopify Theme Store on 25 September 2026, is built around that look as standard.
Most themes give you one design and a colour picker. Fuse ships five complete presets, each a finished storefront with its own layout, type and mood:
| Preset | Built for |
|---|---|
| Fuse | Clothing — the flagship look, bold type over full-width imagery |
| Node | Clothing — a cleaner, more editorial take on the same foundation |
| Fluid | Beauty and skincare — softer, built around ingredient and usage detail |
| Clio | Footwear — angles, detail shots and colourways |
| Bond | Bags and accessories — texture, materials and craft |
The practical value of that is time. A beauty brand does not start from a clothing layout and work backwards; it starts from Fluid, which already has the sections a skincare page needs — ingredients, usage information, before-and-after. A shoe brand starts from Clio. Nothing is locked: once a preset is applied, every section and colour stays editable.
Every theme has a look. Fuse’s is frosted glass.
The menu, the product badges, the sticky add-to-cart bar — they sit on a translucent panel that blurs whatever photography is behind it. The interface never fully covers the image; it floats over it, picking up the colour underneath. Scroll a Fuse storefront and the chrome shifts with the imagery rather than sitting on top of it as a solid block.
It is a small thing to describe and a very visible one in use. It is also, as far as the UTD catalogue goes, unique to Fuse — no other theme from this publisher ships it. The effect comes in a light and a dark variant, and both are set from the theme’s colour settings, which means retinting the entire store to match a seasonal campaign is one change rather than a tour through every section.
For a brand trying to be remembered, that matters more than it sounds. Shoppers rarely recall a font. They do recall a storefront that looked like nothing else they clicked that evening.
The feature list reads like a brief written by someone who sells visually:
Showing the product Lookbooks · image hotspots · before/after sliders · product video · image zoom · image rollover · high-resolution galleries · colour swatches · size charts · product tabs · combined listings
Getting to checkout Quick buy · slide-out cart · sticky cart · in-store pickup · gift wrapping · pre-orders · cart notes · Sign in with Shop
Keeping momentum Stock counters · countdown timers · back-in-stock alerts · promo banners, tiles and popups · recently viewed · recommended products · cross-selling · trust badges
Helping people find things Mega menu · enhanced search · swatch filters · filtering and sorting · infinite scroll · sticky header · breadcrumbs
Two of those deserve a second look. Image hotspots let you tag products directly onto a styled photograph — the shopper clicks the jacket in the shot rather than hunting for it in a grid. Lookbooks turn a seasonal shoot into a shoppable page. Between them they close the gap between the content a fashion brand already produces and the catalogue it sells from.
And every one of these ships inside the theme. That is worth saying plainly: each feature you do not add as an app is one less third-party script loading on your product page.
The listing carries a line worth noticing: AI Commerce Ready — designed for AI agents and Shopify Catalog.
More shopping journeys now start with an assistant rather than a search box, and what those assistants can recommend depends on how cleanly a storefront exposes its catalogue. Building for that now, rather than retrofitting later, is a reasonable thing to want from a theme bought in 2026.
Fuse also ships with 33 languages, EU translations in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and right-to-left support — the groundwork for selling across borders with one theme.
Theme Fuse, by UTD BV
Released 25 September 2026, version 1.0.0
Price $400 USD, one-time
Presets Fuse · Node · Fluid · Clio · Bond
Includes free theme updates, Shopify 24/7 theme support,
and a free trial before you buyEvery Shopify Theme Store listing can be tried on your own store before payment. With five presets, that is worth doing properly: load your real photography into two or three of them and see which one your products actually belong in. It costs nothing and it answers the only question that matters.
See Fuse in the Shopify Theme Store →
Method: every figure on this page — presets, categories, capabilities, languages, price and version — is read from the Fuse listing and its five preset demos in the Shopify Theme Store, checked across all five on 4 October 2026. Nothing here is estimated.
Storefront Daily is published by UTD BV, the developer of the Fuse theme. Prices, versions, presets and features above are taken from the public Shopify Theme Store listing and were checked on 4 October 2026.
Fuse is a premium Shopify theme published by UTD BV, released in the Shopify Theme Store on 25 September 2026 at version 1.0.0. It is positioned for modern apparel brands that sell through imagery, and it ships five presets covering clothing, beauty, footwear and bags. The price is $400 USD, a one-time payment that includes free updates and Shopify's own 24/7 theme support.
Fuse is built for brands whose product photography does the selling. The Fuse and Node presets are set up for clothing, Fluid for beauty and skincare, Clio for shoes and Bond for bags and accessories. If your catalogue is visual — seasonal drops, colourways, texture, styling — the theme's lookbooks, image hotspots and full-bleed media sections are designed around that. For a plain spec-driven catalogue, a simpler theme will serve you just as well.
Fuse layers its interface — the menu, product badges, the sticky add-to-cart bar — on a translucent frosted panel that blurs and picks up whatever photography sits behind it. It is the detail that gives a Fuse storefront its recognisable look: the chrome never fully covers the imagery, it floats over it. The effect comes in a light and a dark variant, and both are controlled from the theme's colour settings, so retinting the whole store is one change rather than a pass through every section.
Most of what a visual brand needs is already in the theme. Lookbooks, image hotspots, before/after sliders, product video, size charts, colour swatches, quick buy, slide-out cart, gift wrapping, pre-orders, stock counters, countdown timers, back-in-stock alerts and trust badges all ship with Fuse. That matters beyond convenience: every app you do not install is one less script slowing your product pages down.
Five: Fuse, Node, Fluid, Clio and Bond. Each is a complete storefront design with its own layout, typography and colour direction, and you can preview all five from the theme listing before buying. They are starting points rather than locks — once a preset is applied, every section, colour and typographic choice remains yours to change in the theme editor.