Deep Learning Our Way Through Fashion Week – Inside EDITED

Fashion retail is no different; at EDITED we're interested in what these technologies can teach us about our industry and the unique data it produces. While we've got retail data pretty covered, there's a huge amount of imagery in fashion to play with. So we created a specific kind of neural network -- called a convolutional variational autoencoder -- to investigate a dataset of runway photos from London Fashion Week (LFW). The network synthesises information from the photos and then represents them as a set of numbers that can be manipulated. That allowed us to analyse the collection in super interesting ways.