The Elements of Fashion Style

The Elements of Fashion Style
Kristen Vaccaro, Sunaya Shivakumar, Ziqiao Ding, Karrie Karahalios, Ranjitha Kumar

UIST 2016: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology

Abstract:
The outfits people wear contain latent fashion concepts capturing styles, seasons, events, and environments. Fashion theorists have proposed that these concepts are shaped by design elements such as color, material, and silhouette. A dress may be “bohemian” because of its pattern, material, trim, or some combination of them: it is not always clear how low-level elements translate to high-level styles. In this paper, we use polylingual topic modeling to learn latent fashion concepts jointly in two languages capturing these elements and styles. Using this latent topic formation we can translate between these two languages through topic space, exposing the elements of fashion style. We train the polylingual topic model (PLTM) on a set of more than half a million outfits collected from Polyvore, a popular fashion-based social net- work. We present novel, data-driven fashion applications that allow users to express their needs in natural language just as they would to a real stylist and produce tailored item recommendations for these style needs.

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