Design and the AI Route

Conspicuous Technology and Augmented Aesthetic Are the latest trends

- Rupal Dalal

Technology has had a monumental impact on the world and is changing the fashion industry by leaps and bounds.

Touted as one of the major ideas in the field of fashion for the current year, Artificial intelligence or AI is playing a complementary role in the fashion design department.

When Karolina Kurkova walked the runway for ‘Manus X Machina: Fashion in an age of Technology at the Met Gala 2016’, little did people know that the Marchesa dress she is wearing for the Tech White Tie code has actually been designed and put together by Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence. Marchesa collaborated with IBM to come up with the first cognitive dress which was not only researched upon by Watson, but was also designed based on the inspiration and colour provided by Watson after researching and analysing previous data.

DIGITAL ERA

Though AI emerged in the fifties and according to many observers the current AI boom began about seven years ago. It followed a series of ups and downs which are often referred to as AI summers and winters. The magnitude of current wave of AI can be measured with the fact that 50 percent of the patents related to AI have been filed in the last seven years.