Back to the Future: IBM Watson Reimagines Bollywood Fashion

IBM Watson had been fully programmed to decode fashion images and the key aspects associated with them. It was intelligent enough to detect the face in the image, the pose of the model as well as body, colour, cut and silhouette of an outfit. It could also tell if two outfits were similar and also determine the dominant colours in an image. It then processed this unimaginably huge amount of raw data to come up with useful insights, which were then shared with the designer duo. Unbelievable as it may seem, Watson had managed to condense years and years of Bollywood fashion into carefully analysed and accurate information. From popular colours through Bollywood's timeline to prints and silhouettes that dominated a particular season, Falguni and Shane Peacock now had everything they needed to kickstart their ideation process.