Japan's fashion industry is on the cusp of an AI-driven revolution, but not quite yet.

A good many of people working in design studios today are aware they may not have long to live, what with all the chatter about how AI will soon replace them. The truth is that the fashion industry as a whole is driven by the accumulation of trends, whereby a sprinkle of ideas from the highest points of the industry trickles down through the various levels of the market to culminate in a fast fashion deluge. While this process of riffing on a ....