Publish at February 16 2026Updated February 18 2026
When fashion becomes a calculation: AI redefines our wardrobes
Increased use of AI assistants in fashion boutiques and at home
You don't know what to wear today. Does it seem complicated to choose the right pieces? What if artificial intelligence could do it for you? Indeed, more and more major brands and clothing rental or purchase services are offering services that use algorithms to help you select your next outfit. They take on the role of the "personal shoppers" of yesteryear. These fashion-savvy individuals accompanied customers to boutiques to help them choose clothes that matched their figure, skin tone, personality and so on.
Today, there's no need to pay for this service. All you have to do is ask an artificial intelligence, which will be able to decide on the basis of height, posture, season, weather, etc. It can calculate faster than anyone else. It can calculate all the elements faster than anyone else, so as to propose different sets. Artificial intelligence doesn't create; it draws on the information it possesses to see which colors are most in demand, which types of clothing are best suited to a particular figure, and so on.
As a result, it standardizes what people wear according to the data in its possession. What's more, these assistants are also designed to encourage people to buy new clothes all the time.
Highlighting potential challenges related to the diversity and quality of datasets used to train AIs, highlighting the need to balance human and automated contributions to preserve innovation and diversity of ideas.
Of all the university faculties, the ones that have benefited most quickly from new technologies are those of medicine. Simulators have quickly been perfected and have become tools to improve medical gestures. The human aspect also benefits from these simulations since future doctors can train to act properly with patients in situations they know nothing about.
Whereas yesterday everything was about money, today it's about happiness. Strange individual, social and entrepreneurial reversals. Our world is changing, and schools have a duty to keep pace with the great mutations of our century, just like every other area of your life.