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How AI is upending the fashion industry... and how students are adapting 89%
6/3/2026, 5:03:13 PM
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From runway to rack, every piece tells a
story we often don't see. Fashion is a
$500 billion industry today, but FIT
President Jason Shoe Box says despite the revenue, the industry is facing challenges.
>> Some of those jobs in New York City are going down. Fashion, we've lost about 23% of the fashion designers in the city in the last 10 years. That's that's an alarm bell.
>> Uncertainty over AI is fueling the decline, and Shoe Box's goal is to teach the next generation to harness their creativity while working alongside the technology.
>> AI
AI massively disruptive, right? We are incorporating it across our classrooms.
We're doing all kinds of different partnerships with major industry corporations helping them experiment with their AI.
>> Fashion companies are using AI for trend forecasting, inventory planning, and digital design. While in stores and fitting rooms, it's assisting customers.
Tia Cost is an FIT junior studying the business side of fashion.
>> We need to learn how to adapt to AI and learn how to use it to better our jobs and our positions in the industry because it is here to stay.
>> AI is also finding ways to improve sustainability.
We saw how FIT is now experimenting with gardens, creating natural dyes from plants to color fabrics.
>> Extract colors from something like a Hopi black dye sunflower. We take the seeds out of that and it turns purple.
>> Regardless, Shoe Box says some things just never go out of style.
>> People will always wear clothes. You still need someone to make those clothes. You still need someone to design those clothes.
A robot does not have an imagination that will design the next hot thing that someone wants to wear.
>> By stitching, tech, and human touch together, he hopes to bring jobs back to the global fashion hub. Evan Moon, CBS News, New York.
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