Who are the Devils Wearing Prada in New York City?

摘要

Fashion is a perpetual topic in human social life, and the mass has thepenchant to emulate what large city residents and celebrities wear. Undeniably,New York City is such a bellwether large city with all kinds of fashionleadership. Consequently, to study what the fashion trends are during thisyear, it is very helpful to learn the fashion trends of New York City.Discovering fashion trends in New York City could boost many applications suchas clothing recommendation and advertising. Does the fashion trend in the NewYork Fashion Show actually influence the clothing styles on the public? Toanswer this question, we design a novel system that consists of three majorcomponents: (1) constructing a large dataset from the New York Fashion Showsand New York street chic in order to understand the likely clothing fashiontrends in New York, (2) utilizing a learning-based approach to discover fashionattributes as the representative characteristics of fashion trends, and (3)comparing the analysis results from the New York Fashion Shows and street-chicimages to verify whether the fashion shows have actual influence on the peoplein New York City. Through the preliminary experiments over a large clothingdataset, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed system, and obtainuseful insights on fashion trends and fashion influence.