• A Very Stylish Algorithm: How Math Will Sneak Into The Fashion World

    Do you imagine walking down the streets, taking pics of people around you and then being able to reproduce that outfit you fell in love with? It may sound crazy, but it is just a matter of math, and it seems we are getting pretty close to achieving some actual results. As Quartz has just revealed, the south korean SK Planet’s Lab will launch on the market a search engine focused on the fashion world by the end of 2016. The Artificial Intelligence that they have designed is able to understand the concept of style and to match clothes according to the latest trends through scanning the huge amount of…

  • Decades of Fashion: the 60s

    “Hey mama hey mama – Look around -Everybody’s groovin’ to a brand new sound” Welcome to the 60s, Hairspray At the beginning of the Sixties, the world felt that something was changing. A rush of optimism was spreading around cities and, with the election of the new president of US, John F. Kennedy, in 1961, people believed that a new golden age had to start. The key actors of those years where those who were born after the World War II, also called the baby boomers. Having reached the teen age, the joyful, lighthearted youth embraced the pleasures of life without the knowledge of the dreads of  past wars. They…