Des ainer: Exploring the use of "bad" generative adversarial networks in the ideation process of fashion design

Abstract

desAIner is a creativity support tool able to assist a fashion designer in the ideation process of creating clothing through the use of a "bad"Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). After training the GAN on a relatively small number of diverse high fashion images from popular designers' clothing collections, the tool generates a latent space of surreal visual representations and combinations of these fashion images for designers to explore and generate fresh ideas. Using this tool, we conducted interviews with two fashion designers who used the tool and discussed how these "bad"GANs can help them turn the creative task of designing novel clothing into a more effortless and efficient task by presenting surreal visual stimuli to incite inspiration.