Live review | The trend is not limited to AI to add new power! Explore a new way of fashion design!

The continuous development of artificial intelligence, especially in the collision with fashion, undoubtedly has infinite possibilities. From simple drawing board patterns in the past to today's digital design, artificial intelligence provides designers with more efficient and innovative tools.

How will artificial intelligence radiate dazzling creative sparks in the fashion design industry? In this issue of Unbounded Talk, we have invited China's cutting-edge fashion designer, Ms. He Jiani, to let her lead us to appreciate the application of AI painting in the field of art clothing!

### Jiani Ho

China Emerging Designer

Worked for Roberto Cavalli, a top Italian fashion brand, as a print and clothing designer

Own original designer brand SARY HE

Bachelor degree in dyeing and weaving design from China Academy of Art

Graduated from Milan MARANGONI (Istituto Marangoni) POLIMODA (Polimoda Fashion Institute) majoring in fashion design

Formerly an external lecturer in the Fashion Design Department of China Academy of Art

Has served as a design consultant for many national chain brands

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- SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS-

**Why will AI lead the clothing revolution? **

For a long time, the clothing industry has had a pain point: from clothing design and development to sample production to model shooting, it takes a lot of time and economic costs. **How to shorten the time is the key to the competition in the garment industry. **

As a well-known cutting-edge designer in China, He Jiani keenly discovered a new breakthrough when she first encountered generative AI: sales-oriented, precise ordering, and inventory control.

In fact, AI drawing can save the time, energy and economic cost of model shooting (many Taobao merchants are already doing this). But original design brands can do more.

AI can directly turn the designer's ideas into pictures, and users can directly place orders and measure drawings based on AI design drawings. For example, the design of many bags is only different in details. They may all be red in appearance, but the metal buckles are different. After using AI painting tools, a lot of costs are saved in the middle, such as hiring models, decorations, photographers and so on.

At the same time, everyone's aesthetics are different. For example, the designer designed a very exaggerated shape, which is very small, and it is difficult to have the opportunity to enter the market after the evaluation, so there is basically no chance to enter the subsequent shooting and other processes, and there is no way to enter the vision of consumers.

However, the cost of using AI drawing tools to make designs into ready-made pictures is very low, and consumers will have more opportunities to see these designs that have not yet entered the production process, and finally realize precise ordering.

Designers play the role of guiding AI in the process of using AI. For example, for the garment above, when He Jiani used AI tools to design this garment, the fabric entered as the keyword was "fur" and the background was "a street in New York".

If you want to shoot such a snow scene on the streets of China, it is difficult to feel; if you want to go abroad to shoot, it will be a very large cost.

Using AI can use different models and different faces, saving money and leaving more space for designers to imagine.

Because of the use of AI tools, the communication between designers and users is more efficient, and users' cognition of design will be more concrete.

"Our other business is hotel catering uniforms. AI is very suitable for this business." Many bosses such as hotel afterimage lack clothing thinking, and it is easy to fail to understand them just by showing them style pictures. Even if it was a very ordinary suit, he couldn't imagine how it would look like. It is very intuitive to use AI to directly draw renderings for the boss of the restaurant.

At the same time, He Jiani's test on Xiaohongshu shows that the fans are basically accurate customers, and the effect is very outstanding.

He Jiani was also in charge of print design while working as a fashion designer for Roberto Cavalli, a top Italian fashion brand. As a very important element in the field of clothing design, printing design also has many pain points.

"At that time, it was all designed by hand, and it took about 1-2 days for a complicated hand-painted printing pattern." The test of the designer's ability is also very big. However, after returning to China, she found that currently in-service printing designers in China are rarely able to complete within this time.

Using AI painting tools can greatly improve the work efficiency of not only domestic designers, but also traditional international printing designers.

Using AI to transform the dragon element in various ways, and adding other elements such as circus, lace dress, etc., it only takes about 30 minutes for He Jiani to produce a set (4) of AI pictures. In this process, AI can also provide designers with many different images and design ideas.

In just one day, the designer was able to select nearly a hundred black and white and color print design drawings of dragon elements that can meet the design requirements from the AI works.

**When every designer knows AI, what is the value of the product and the barriers of the company? **

The value of a product is determined by the designer's thinking.

AI liberates the hands of the designer, liberates the physical strength of the designer, and more importantly allows you to focus on your brain. At the same time, **AI is always just a tool, and the designer's brain is the core. **

People use powerful tools to make themselves stronger, and this process only eliminates the weak. Those designers who have no thought will eventually be banned or even diverted, because the industry does not need so many people.

Then if every designer in the company knows AI, and the company also has its own AI department, where are the barriers of the company? ** One of the core points is the competition in the supply chain. **

The supply chain of clothing companies is very long, and it is not a single product. A vest may only be sold for 10 days, and the season changes. Under such circumstances, clothing companies may show a big gap in the management of big data and the competitiveness of the supply chain.

What can be met at present is that AI can help companies provide customers with more choices, better services, and more possibilities. AI shortens the time between products and customers, allowing designers to test models and place orders more efficiently.

The change brought about is that everyone needs to reposition at the moment, looking for new breakthroughs, innovative application tools, and the release of production capacity will bring greater gains to artists.

- Q&A Review-

Ruiya: Learning to create with AIGC technology from scratch, what is the biggest difficulty and challenge for you?

He Jiani: The application of AI tools is relatively simple, but at present, the details of AI are still not easy to control, and you need to explore by yourself. Especially when using MJ or SD large models, because they are not specially designed for the clothing industry, many technical terms and other details have to be tuned by themselves.

Ruiya: When using AI painting tools for design and creation, are you more willing to express your creativity to AI and control the picture more accurately by adjusting the descriptors, or do you unconsciously rely on AI? What about the generated result?

He Jiani: I never rely on AI randomly generated results. If you rely on AI, you can use a function called blend, which can synthesize different pictures and bring you some unexpected results. But after understanding its laws, I basically want what I want, and AI basically comes out like this.

Ruiya: Do you have any plans or goals in the future that you hope to achieve in your future creations?

He Jiani: I am now studying the purpose of AI, and I also want to make an AI brand of clothing. This can reduce a lot of personnel expenses and time costs for the company.

Ruiya: As a professional fashion designer, what impact do you think AI will have on artistic creation?

He Jiani: It can greatly reduce the artist's creative time. Just because it takes a long time to design doesn't mean the design is perfect. On the contrary, after the work efficiency is improved through AI tools, the works produced may also be better than those hand-painted by yourself.

Ruiya: What do you think is the difference between AI painting and traditional painting or design? Will there be some connection between them?

He Jiani: Of course there will be, and it will be related if we switch from traditional design to AI. But there are also many differences. First of all, there is a difference in thinking, that is, AI design first seems to be more scientific, that is, more rational. This may make many designers feel less, so the advice I give to designers is to find inspiration, let go of these things and get insights in life.

Ruiya: Do you have any advice or guidance for beginners who want to get involved in the AIGC field? What skills or abilities do you think they need to improve and polish?

He Jiani: First of all, we must always have a point of view, AI is just a tool for us. Beginners must first explore the tool, and they can try and explore the rules of the tool as much as possible.

Back to the designer itself, we must have our own aesthetics. The pictures we feed are all carefully selected and in line with our own aesthetics. Only the pictures produced by AI can reflect the look in your mind .

The second point is that when we describe a scene or a thing, we must describe it in as much detail as possible, and we must have our own ideas. Your basic skills must be passed first, and then the AI may help you.

Ruiya: Everyone knows AI tools, how can I stand out as a top-notch person in it?

He Jiani: Everyone knows AI tools, and it must be a common phenomenon in the future. So we have to be mentally prepared now. Then how we stand out is actually our own brain. For example, how our clothes are designed, how its colors are matched, what the pictures we feed him look like, and how to choose this picture, all these are very important. For designers, the aesthetic concept is really important. Senior designers will still return to brain construction, overall control, and overall grasp.

Ruiya: What do you think of art and commerce?

He Jiani: Art is like a spiritual building, it is at the top. But business is that it is going to land after all. Artists need to know more about business in order to understand everyone's pain points and needs. And business needs to allow artists more space to develop, understand and understand art more, so as to bring business to a new height.

Ruiya: What is your opinion on the future development direction of AIGC art, or do you have any predictions for the future?

He Jiani: This application will become more and more widespread. The Miaoya camera, which became popular a few days ago, can already see the trend of knocking down the hippocampus. In addition, the application of AI to performance clothing, Hanfu, and new Chinese-style clothing should be of great help, because the design and production costs of these clothes are much higher than ordinary clothing.