Hong Kong’s AI Fashion X show featured over 80 garments by 14 designers, all of which were designed with the help of AiDA, which stands for ‘AI-Based Interactive Design Assistant’, a piece of artificial intelligence software. Hong Kong’s AiDLab, comprising of PhD students and faculty, created this software.
According to AiDLab CEO Calvin Wong, this software has been created to be a supporting tool for designers.
AiDA is an assistant to fashion designers just to help them, you know, to work together,” said Wong, adding, “Designers and AI can work together to come up with the final collection.”
As Wong explained, the AiDA system relies on various artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including image recognition, detection and generation. A digital mood board allows designers to store preliminary sketches, materials and colour schemes before the software’s algorithms produce blueprints that designers can tweak and add their modifications to.
Wong claimed that the system can generate 12 templates within 10 seconds significantly cutting down on design time.
Mountain Yam, a fashion designer based in Hong Kong, has been using AiDA for the past six months. He finds that it not only helps him save time but also gives him new ideas.
Designer Yulia Tlili expressed disappointment that the AI designs weren’t more prominent and they should have been at the forefront of the collection. As per Yulia, the collections weren’t as radical as the early futuristic collections she had worked on.
“I think AI is full of possibility, and it’s really an amazing opportunity for the students and the professors to really collaborate with this really interesting field,” Tlili said.
Designers in Europe and the Asia-Pacific can now make use of AiDA, which debuted at the Fashion X AI show.
