The Era of the AI Fashion Designer Is Getting Closer

The AI image generator

is addictive. Type in a description of anything you can imagine — a bottle of ranch dressing testifying in court, Boris Johnson tangled in a net underwater, Eminem as an M&M — and it will conjure visuals to match.

And if you start feeding it the names of fashion designers, this ability to distil a text prompt into imagery is on full display. “Rick Owens” returns human forms draped in black garments…