2026 technology activity
2026 · AI & machine learning
Generative AI · Virtual try-on
Design
Embedded Fermat gen-AI across design workflows and launched AIUTA-powered virtual try-on for ~10,000 products.
TECHSTACK
United Kingdom · E-commerce
Design · Styling
2026 · AI & machine learning
Generative AI · Virtual try-on
Design
Embedded Fermat gen-AI across design workflows and launched AIUTA-powered virtual try-on for ~10,000 products.
2025 · AI & machine learning
Styling
Tested 'Styled for You', an AI styling system trained on a large curated outfit database (reported publicly).
official company · 2026
official company · 2025

Phia’s Digital Closet turns purchase history into a wardrobe. The interesting question is what happens after the catalog exists.
We used to laugh at smart fridges that warned you when you were running low on milk. Now AI wants to know how many black T-shirts I own.

Fashion retail promised a mirror that understood bodies, fabrics, and fit. What it often shipped was a screen with a few buttons.
Remember those scenes in Black Mirror where an ordinary surface suddenly becomes an interface? That was the promise of the smart mirror.

Mango Stylist is another chat window. The work starts when a vague occasion has to become products that match, are in stock, and still feel like Mango.
AI chatbot fatigue has already set in. Now Mango has joined the list with Mango Stylist. The chatbot is not the interesting part.

Ask Ralph is a familiar RAG pattern in a Polo sweater. The model is rented. Preparing the assortment is the real work.
Training your own multimodal model from scratch takes a lot of time and money. A lot of brands are taking a different route. Ralph Lauren launched Ask Ralph.