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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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Luce, L. (2019). Generative Models as Fashion Designers. In: Artificial Intelligence for Fashion. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3931-5_8
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