The Bias We Inherit: How Fashion Teaches AI to Exclude

Have you ever stopped to think where Artificial Intelligence learns what beauty is?
The answer is simple — from us. From the millions of images, campaigns, and fashion shows we’ve been producing for decades.

And what exactly have we been showing?
One type of body. One type of skin. One version of perfection.

The fashion industry — knowingly or not — has been teaching us to see beauty through a narrow lens. Now, we are feeding the same lens into AI models, training algorithms to reproduce the same limited standards, at scale.

The risk? AI doesn’t challenge bias — it multiplies it.
If our datasets exclude scars, psoriasis, vitiligo, wrinkles, disabilities, and all the diverse beauty of the real world, AI will simply erase them from the digital future.

We are at a turning point.
We can choose to feed the machine the same old story — or we can teach it a new one.

A story where beauty is not perfection, but truth.
Where every body is seen.
Where fashion becomes the driver of inclusion, not exclusion.