Artificial Intelligence in Fashion Design and Manufacturing

This chapter reviews the state-of-the-art developments of artificial intelligence (AI) for fashion design and manufacturing applications. Starting with the brief historical background and identification of AI tools and techniques, it enters into the AI applications in fashion design and development, such as landmark detection, fashion parsing, item retrieval and design synthesis both software development and application viewpoints. Next it explores the AI applications in clothing manufacturing covering the areas of production planning, scheduling and management; digital pattern making; marker making and planning; optimising fabric spreading and cut order planning; and automatic sewing and fabric manipulation. This simplified overview together with its explanatory approach will open the doors for inquisitive reader to dive deep into the world of AI in connection to fashion.