Indian Couture × Avant-Garde Menswear | AI

Services
Generative Design
Art Direction
Client
Independent project
Location
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Year
2025
Credits
ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion (SDXL), Google Colab, Photoshop/GIMP; dataset sourced from open/free archives.
Info
This project investigates the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary avant-garde menswear through the lens of AI-generated fashion content. It explores how digital tools can reimagine heritage fabrics, intricate embroidery, and structured silhouettes in a photorealistic, editorial context. By building a curated synthetic dataset and training a LORA model, the project experiments with the possibilities of AI in translating tactile textures and cultural motifs into visual storytelling. It is both a technical exercise and a conceptual exploration of how emerging generative technologies can bridge fashion heritage with innovation, producing visuals that are simultaneously realistic, imaginative, and culturally resonant. This work demonstrates an approach to AI fashion design that emphasizes intentional dataset curation, thoughtful model training, and creative experimentation, showing how technology can augment the creative process in high-fashion storytelling.