What insights can machine learning give us about fashion? Google Arts & Culture collaborated with The Business of Fashion (BoF) to create an interactive visualization of fashion show archives from 2015-2019. We came together with The Business of Fashion to view their collection of 140,000 photos of runway looks from almost 4,000 fashion shows around the world. If you could attend one fashion show per day, it would take you more than 10 years to see them all. This experiment makes this library easy and fun to explore in one single visualization.

The first, Runway Palette, organizes the work of almost 1,000 different fashion designers by color. Google says it worked with a publication called Business of Fashion to create the app. With the help of BoF's photo collection, which includes more than 140,000 photos from some 4,000 fashion shows, Google used a machine-learning algorithm to organize all the photographed outfits by color. You can explore the archive in one of two ways. You can either tap through the very cool interactive visualization tool Google created, or you can photograph a piece of clothing and the app will show you similar looks.