The Future of Fashion Illustration in the Era of AI

Fashion illustration has never simply been about recording clothing. Before photography, it was the main way fashion designers communicated ideas and how the public encountered new styles of dress, through early printed journals in 17th-century France and England.

But photography did not erase illustration. In many ways, it freed it. Once it was no longer bound to accuracy, in the 20th century, illustration moved toward stylization, abstraction, and interpretation, giving rise…