It is giving inspiration: A survey paper on generative AI in fashion

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been experiencing a surge of interest in the past few years, and much has been said of its applications in creative areas. Fashion design is no stranger to innovation, and recent advances in GenAI have brought several new tools and platforms that pave new ways of working and creating for both students and designers. This survey paper collects a selection of representative works that explore the presence of GenAI in Fashion design. A total of nineteen papers from 2016 to 2024 were reviewed. From the identification of garments and their attributes to sketch creation and image-to-image translation, this compilation of works offers multiple views on the applications of technologies such as convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks and diffusion models. This analytical overview provides a valuable understanding of the field, opening new possibilities for Fashion designers to work with artificial intelligence.