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Leanne LuceArtificial Intelligence for Fashionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3931-5_8

8. Generative Models as Fashion Designers

Leanne Luce1 
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

—Oscar de la Renta

Amazon made headlines in 2017 for a controversial idea that it introduced to the public consciousness. Amazon claimed the ability to train a generative adversarial network (GAN) , a type of generative model, to design garments. For many fashion industry professionals, this announcement set off alarms. The threat that the role of the fashion designer would soon become obsolete hit close to home for everyone.

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