AI Fashion Course
AI Fashion Innovation Training – University of the Arts London x FIA
Featured on BBC Click:
How AI will soon design your wardrobe
“New Educational content, helping shape the foundation of future-facing curriculum”.
As part of a pioneering AI + Fashion education initiative led by Dr. Pinar Yanardag (MIT Media Lab), I orchestrated and contributed to the creation of new educational content for the Fashion Innovation Agency—helping shape the foundation of a future-facing curriculum.
I supported the development of the course structure, while also delivering two of my own specialist sessions focused on:
Style Transfer & GANs – introducing students to the creative power of generative adversarial networks and convolutional neural networks in visual design
Motion Capture & Neural Mapping – exploring how pose estimation tools like OpenPose allow us to reimagine the runway through AI, memory, and digital performance
Blending vision with practice, the course unpacked how fashion can evolve from static form into responsive, intelligent systems - where code, identity, and aesthetics converge.
Featured on BBC Click and recognized by UAL for its innovation, this project marked a significant milestone in AI storytelling, immersive education, and the early shaping of AI’s role in creative industry.
Examples of Student Work: Beauty in Transformation
Threshold Rendering
This project explores the poetic threshold between chaos and form - where machine learning models, still mid-training, produce images that are haunting, unstable, and profoundly alive. We used these in-progress GAN outputs not as flaws to fix, but as seeds of inspiration - inviting their raw beauty to guide our fashion sketches.
What emerged was a conversation between the known and the becoming: garments shaped by glitch, dream logic, and emotional abstraction. In this space, transformation isn’t polished - it’s radiant, vulnerable, and filled with potential.
By designing from unfinished signals, we embraced a new creative rhythm: one that honours flux, celebrates imperfection, and redefines beauty as a living, evolving force.
Between the Source and the Self: A study in layered selves through digital transformation
This project asked students to blend two or more images into a single, style-transferred visual—training them to see not just aesthetic contrast, but emergent identity.
Each composition became a living metaphor:
That we are not one thing, but many.
Not fixed, but layered.
Not perfect, but transformed by every interaction we’ve carried.
In this exercise, AI became a mirror—reflecting the way memory, context, and experience imprint upon form. As styles clashed, harmonized, or dissolved into one another, something new emerged: a self made visible through the complexity of connection.
This wasn’t just image generation. It was a study in how we all become through blending—of culture, time, signal, and self.
Closing Statement
This course marked a threshold moment in creative education—where code met craft, and future met form. Through collaborative exploration, students stepped into the unknown with AI as both compass and canvas. From glitch to gesture, from source to self, the classroom became a site of transformation - where digital tools revealed human depth. This was not just training, but translation: of beauty in motion, identity in layers, and fashion as a living language for what comes next.
Collaborations: Curious minds and creative collaborators are always welcome. Whether you’re into AI, animation, or storytelling through design—let’s connect and see what we can create together.
Contributors: London College of Fashion Students