In recent years, there have been remarkable changes in clothing and fashion industry on a global scale. Currently, digital and social media dictate the most dominant fashion trends, undermining the role of fashion houses. Consequently, the fashion designers and the manufacturing experts of this field are obligated to incorporate new technological methods and techniques in order to cope with current demands and increase at the same time the productivity and the quality of customized and specialized clothing products. Artificial intelligence has been dramatically shifting the way business is done. From the use of predictive analytics in business to computer vision in identifying product attributes, there are a myriad ways AI has been benefiting the field of fashion.

Some of the biggest names in the fashion industry – from H&M to Tommy Hilfiger – are now investing in algorithms that help suggest styles to their customers. A plethora of AI-based start-ups are also helping one end to the other – from retailers to consumers – take the guessing out of the game.

Motivation

Even though AI has been around for several years now, the technologies that are currently being applied to fashion are still in their early days. The goal of this workshop is to gather people from academia, industry, and startups working at the intersection of fashion and data mining and knowledge discovery, to further the technology and its adoption. This 1st installment of the workshop can become, in the future, the premier venue for presenting works that are solving problems related to fashion using artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining.