Weaving the Future: Generative AI and the Reimagining of Fashion Design

TL;DR

This paper examines how generative AI transforms fashion design by enhancing creativity and efficiency, while also addressing ethical, aesthetic, and environmental challenges in the industry.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's role in fashion, emphasizing co-creative workflows and exploring the implications for aesthetics, ethics, and sustainability.

Findings

AI enables new aesthetic innovations in fashion design.

Co-creative human-AI workflows enhance creative processes.

Ethical and environmental challenges are significant in AI-driven fashion.

Abstract

This paper explores the integration of generative AI into the fashion design process. Drawing on insights from the January 2025 seminar ``Tisser le futur,'' it investigates how AI reshapes creative workflows, from ideation to prototyping, while interrogating the ethical, aesthetic, and labor implications. The paper highlights co-creative dynamics between humans and machines, the potential for aesthetic innovation, and the environmental and cultural challenges of algorithmic design.