Unsupervised generation of fashion editorials using deep generative model

Abstract This research intended to establish a new fashion-related artificial intelligence research topic concerning fashion editorials which could induce streams of further studies. A new fashion editorial dataset, which is a prerequisite in training an AI model, has been established in this study to meet the research purpose. A total of over 150K fashion editorials were initially collected and processed to satisfy necessary dataset conditions. A novel dataset of fashion editorials consisting of approximately 60K editorials is proposed through the process. In order to prove the adequacy of the new dataset, data distribution was analyzed and a generative model was selected and trained to attest that new fashion editorials can be created with the proposed editorial dataset. The results generated by the trained model were qualitatively investigated. The model has shown to have learned various features that compose editorials with the dataset, successfully generating fashion editorials. Quantitative evaluation with FID scores was conducted to support the selection of the generative model used for the qualitative assessment.