Coherent and Controllable Outfit Generation

When thinking about dressing oneself, people often have a theme in mind whether they're going to a tropical getaway or wish to appear attractive at a cocktail party. A useful outfit generation system should come up with clothing items that are compatible while matching a theme specified by the user. Existing methods use item-wise compatibility between products but lack an effective way to enforce a global constraint (e.g., style, occasion). We introduce a method that generates outfits whose items match a theme described by a text query. Our method uses text and image embeddings to represent fashion items. We learn a multimodal embedding where the image representation for an item is close to its text representation, and use this embedding to measure item-query coherence. We then use a discriminator to compute compatibility between fashion items. This strategy yields a compatibility prediction method that meets or exceeds the state of the art. Our method combines item-item compatibility and item-query coherence to construct an outfit whose items are (a) close to the query and (b) compatible with one another. Quantitative evaluation shows that the items in our outfits are tightly clustered compared to standard outfits. Furthermore, outfits produced by similar queries are close to one another, and outfits produced by very different queries are far apart. Qualitative evaluation shows that our method responds well to queries. A user study suggests that people understand the match between the queries and the outfits produced by our method.