The fashion industry is asking AI to predict new trends

Predicting what matters in fashion was once an elite sport, the province of those who attend those big runway shows in New York, Milan, London, and – right now – Paris, like the editors of influential magazines. (A line from 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada, about Miranda Priestly, a tyrannical fashion editor, conveys the idea succinctly: “You still don’t get it do you? Her opinion is the only one that matters.”)