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“Photoshop is an interesting example. If you look at fashion design in the past, the process involved people making sketches. Patterns were then made from those sketches,” he explains. Designers created prototypes, edited them repeatedly, and eventually narrowed these iterations down to a final collection. The process was time-intensive and often required multiple physical rehearsals before a final look was approved, he continues.

Digital tools gradually changed this workflow. “Then we moved to a scenario where people started using Photoshop instead of sketches to create looks. This allowed for a much more accurate representation of what the final pattern would look like,” Smith continues. By allowing designers to more accurately visualize garments before producing physical prototypes, the software reduced waste, accelerated development cycles and allowed creative teams to experiment more freely. From this perspective, AI could simply represent the next stage in a longer process…