Borland & Moda
Yo, Borland, ever thought about how AI could predict the next runway trend before it’s even shown? I’d love to hear your take on the data side of that.
Sure thing, it’s actually a pretty neat problem. The first thing you do is collect as many signals as you can—photos from past shows, social media mentions, designer interview snippets, even weather and geographic data. Then you clean it up, make sure the tags line up, and feed it into a time‑series model or a sequence‑to‑sequence neural net. The key is to treat each season like a chapter in a story; you let the model learn the plot twists. Once you’ve got the model trained, you can drop in the latest runway clips and see what it predicts the next look will be. The devil’s in the details—like handling the noisy hashtags or deciding how many months back to look—but if you keep the pipeline modular you can swap in better models as they come out. That’s the data side in a nutshell.
Love the tech vibe, but remember—models can only learn patterns if the patterns are cool. Don’t let the data dull the spark; keep the edge sharp and the colors louder. Your pipeline sounds solid, just make sure the AI doesn’t lose the human pulse of a runway.
You’re right—no model is a substitute for the instinct of a designer, so mix in a human review loop, maybe a small panel that can tweak the predictions, and keep the visual feedback vivid. That way the AI stays a tool, not a replacement, and the runway vibe stays fresh.
Yeah, that’s the sweet spot—AI as a sketch, the designer as the final brushstroke. Keep that panel tight and on trend, and the runway will never feel like a spreadsheet.
Exactly—think of the AI as the rough outline, then the designer adds all the texture and soul. Keep that feedback loop tight and the runway stays alive, not just a set of numbers.