Skills needed: Prior skills: Familiarity with design software packages; Text to image AI applications. Upskilling required with Python Coding with understanding of HPC and access to GPU. Upskilling with Stable Diffusion XL
Benefits: Short Term: Significantly speeding up the design research process to create visuals and photorealistic images enabling early cost-effective design decisions to be made without costly resources. Long Term: Potential to contribute to addressing sustainability in fashion industry — Increased accuracy in trends prediction, reducing deadstock and overstock and ultimately landfill.
