Chapter 6. Conclusion

Data science is changing the fashion industry by allowing humans and machines to work together to solve problems that are, essentially, both emotional and data-driven. The hard problems, such as visual search and creating shared taxonomies, present major opportunities for investment and innovation. Other problems—such as optimizing the way that humans and machines work together—leave lots of room for exploration.

While it remains to be seen exactly what the landscape of fashion and big data will look like in the years to come, we know one thing for sure: there are myriad methods and a large variety of companies devoted to figuring it out. It will be interesting to watch it evolve.