[cyberdrunk]

> If you can just get someone in the factory in China to snap a photograph of the latest batch of dresses and tops and skirts as they come off the sewing table,

Just a simple photo of the garment will not tell you how it behaves on the body (how "malleable" it is, how it bends, wrinkles etc.) and how it interacts with the light. Just ask any artist about the nuances of painting clothing materials - it's a big subject in its own right. I suspect that only shooting photos on a in-factory models, in various lighting conditions MIGHT be enough to train the AI.

[jameshart]

There’s plenty of training material available - the internet is full of pictures of people wearing clothes.

[cyberdrunk]

Yep, but how is that informative for a particular garment that you want to visualize? You can't infer, from a corpus of images of random clothes being worn, how that particular shape and fabric behaves.