Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Wear It AI
Home: Germany
During Maker Faire, we will walk around and take photos of cool wearable tech and maker-made outfits. They will be featured on Wear It's website and everyone will be able to wear them digitally. You get a photo of yourself wearing them, enabled by computer vision and generative AI. The makers' work gets amplified when you post your outfit photos on social media. Ask the maker for their handle and use hashtag #WearItMakerfaire and tag both on social media. Together we promote makers and their amazing wearable tech!
https://www.wearit-ai.com/
Makers
Wear It
We are corporate drop-outs united by a shared belief: fashion, powered by AI, should be democratic, instantaneously gratifying, and utterly waste-free. Our collective expertise spans the entire spectrum of fashion technology—from machine learning and computer vision to personalization strategies and e-commerce solutions. Dr. Kitty Yeung is a physicist, engineer and artist. She is the Co-Founder CEO of Wear It and the Senior Director of AI at Browzwear. To drive integration between science and art, she also founded a sustainable and STEAM fashion brand Art by Physicist.
https://www.wearit-ai.com/
What Inspired You to Make This?
I began my journey in fashion design as a maker, creating handmade projects from scratch. As I developed my fashion brand, Art by Physicist, I learned to convert unique pieces to repeatable, manufacturable products. This experience opened my eyes to the significant challenges within the fashion industry. The supply chain is heavily skewed towards mass production, often to the detriment of independent designers. This model not only stifles creativity but also generates substantial upfront costs, waste, and pollution. Driven by a desire to find a more sustainable and supportive approach, I became passionate about on-demand mass customization. This led me to explore digital fashion as a solution. With the advent of AI, we can now generate fashion design images and create individual pieces on demand. This technology allows consumers to visualize themselves in designs without the need for large inventories, reducing waste and making the fashion industry more accessible to independent creators. This opens up a wealth of opportunities, allowing makers to showcase and share their creations in an interactive and engaging way.
