so if you know this type of algorithm, you canjust mine all over your database. these images were dreamt up by an algorithm fed by tens of thousands of photos. so this is a computer that is designing these dresses? yeah, so this is a generative adversarial network that has been fed many thousands of images so it begins to learn what a dress looks like. it s incredible. and then design its own. so every single one of these is computer generated. slightly terrifying. and similarly, this is taking thousands of catwalk images from men s fashion week and beginning to understand what catwalk looks like, what a model looks like, what the clothes they are wearing looks like, and generating its own catwalk images. are these real models? these are computer generated. oh, wow. so this person doesn t exist? no. it begins to question what we even think a catwalk show could be.
that wrap dress is a phenomenon. diane von furstenberg became a symbol of women s liberation, women s empowerment, and that dress embodied all of it. 45 years later, it s still around. i made the dress, but really, the dress made me. there s a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from portable radios and cassette tape players. it s part nuisance, part culture, and part sociology. so disco gets its start from funk and soul music of the 1960s and 70s. disco was a wild, mad, drug-saturated party scene. you danced the night away with all your gyrations. you were covered with sweat. and people were absolutely captivated by the whole experience.
and it existed before, but nobody did it in jersey. cybill shepard wore it for taxi driver. there was such a moment at that time. it has an elegance and a sophistication. at the same time, it s so easy. put it on like a shirt and wrap it around. nothing could be easier. it was relatively affordable. it came in a million different prints. and it sold like hotcakes. it s extremely flattering. it is both proper and sexy. you get the guys, and their mothers don t mind. the little wrap dress was worn not only by secretaries who could afford it, but it was worn by socialites. and it was the first dress that liberated american women and said, this is the go-to dress for every woman. office to boardroom to society. how many iconic items of fashion can we cite that were created fairly recently that have had staying power?
created fairly recently that have had staying power? that wrap dress is a phenomenon. diane von furstenberg became a symbol of women s liberation, women s empowerment, and that dress embodied all of it. 45 years later it s still around. i made the dress, but really the dress made me. there s a new form of assault on city streets these days, an audio assault. the sound of disco music pouring from portable radios and cassette tape players. it s part nuisance, part culture, and part sociology. so disco gets its start from funk and soul music of the 1960s and 70s. disco was a wild, mad, drug-saturated party scene. you danced the night away with all your gyrations. you were covered with sweat and
it s a dress with no zipper, no button. and it existed before, but nobody did it in jersey. cybill shepard wore it for taxi driver. there was such a moment at that time. it has an elegance and a sophistication. at the same time, it s so easy. put it on like a shirt and wrap it around. nothing could be easier. it was relatively affordable. it came in a million different prints and it sold like hot cakes. it s extremely flattering. it is both proper and sexy. you get the guys and their mothers don t mind. the little wrap dress was worn not only by secretaries who could afford it, but it was worn by socialites and it was the first dress that liberated american women and said this is the go-to dress for every woman. office to boardroom to society. how many iconic items of fashion can we cite that were