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Founder Charaf Tajer compared AI to electronic music or sampling: It may be done on a computer, but it still takes talent, creativity and effort to produce good results.
With the industry starting to use the technology for everything from campaign imagery to shopping assistants, it risks replicating biases based on race, body type, age and disability that it has spent years loudly claiming it wants to move past.
Norma Kamali is teaching an AI system to replicate her design style — “downloading my brain,” she calls it — so when the day comes that she steps back from her company, her creative legacy will carry on.
Marc Bain is Technology Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. He is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of technology and innovation, from start-ups to Big Tech.
Getting recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI chatbots is fast emerging as a competitive advantage for fashion brands. As AI reshapes discovery, which brands are being favoured by AI and why?
A new analysis suggests most big fashion and retail players are using AI, though many are still reluctant to speak about it publicly.
Synthetic consumer research, where AI is used to simulate shoppers, is emerging as a cutting-edge way for brands and retailers to better understand their customers and test everything from products to marketing campaigns before they launch.
The more conversational commerce becomes, the more important generative engine optimisation will be, writes Andrea Felsted.
Saks is moving towards exiting bankruptcy and tapped an additional $300 million of its Chapter 11 financing package.
War in the Middle East, the luxury industry’s fastest-growing market, threatens to delay a long-expected rebound in demand.
Beauty brands must rethink upselling with smarter value plays, from curated bundles to jumbo sizes and subscriptions, to keep their customers from switching to the competition.
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