Ross O'Brien

At Milan’s Fashion Week this past February, Hong Kong-Japanese fashion label Anteprima showcased knitted garments and a handbag composed of glowing, color-changing fiber-optic-based textiles. The designs had embedded sensors that detected gestures and motions, changing the textile’s colors and patterns accordingly using recognition technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. While gimmicky, the blinking designs do point to some more fundamental, and possibly transformative uses of AI to boost productivity for fashion …

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