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DMI Fashion Days: Reconciling appearance and reality in fashion

"Authenticity is the currency of the moment," said Carl Tillessen at the beginning of his zeitgeist analysis for the German Fashion Institute (DMI) for the autumn/winter 2027 season. The word authenticity may have long been dismissed as an empty phrase. It usually only surfaced in marketing contexts or in connection with influencers, but it is...

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The future of colour trend forecasting

Will it be possible in the future to determine colour trends not only by evaluating search engines and sales figures, but also on the basis of ‘Big Data’? This is exactly what an international team of programmers has been working on for a year. The goal is to recognise and map emerging trends through an algorithmic analysis of fashion. The first...