The Fashion Artificial Intelligence Research, Enterprise and Education (FAIREE) Hub at University of the Arts, London is a cross-disciplinary initiative that brings together researchers, educators, and industry partners to examine how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the fashion system. FAIREE connects expertise across fashion business, design, and technology to advance rigorous, responsible, and forward-looking scholarship that responds to the evolving needs of the global fashion industry.  

At its Third International Symposium, to be held at the London College of Fashion campus, the Hub welcomes papers, projects, and critical discussions that explore how AI can shape innovation, sustainability, creativity, and governance in fashion. The symposium aims to provide a collaborative platform for scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas, build partnerships, and contribute to an inclusive and impactful research agenda for AI-enabled fashion futures. The invited submissions will focus on creativity, labour, sustainability, and cultural expression, and how ethical principles such as fairness, accountability, inclusivity, and transparency can mitigate the techno-sustainability paradox that challenges today’s fashion industry. 

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are invited as extended abstracts of approximately 1,000 words with up to six keywords, in Arial 12-point font as a pdf document using justified format for the paragraphs and APA style for referencing with names and affiliation(s) of author(s). Submissions should clearly articulate relevant research purpose and objectives, novelty and significance, methodology and theoretical grounding, key findings or anticipated contributions and, ethical implications and impact.

We encourage submissions in the format explained in the next section, from academics, practitioners, policymakers, and doctoral researchers engaging with Fashion AI through ethical, creative, or critical lenses. Accepted papers will receive further information about guidelines for presenting their work.  

We invite academics to serve as Track Chairs to curate and lead a thematic track, oversee submissions, provide academic mentorship and facilitate meaningful scholarly discussions.  To apply, please submit a brief proposal of max 500 words including track title and theme, rationale and academic relevance with a short CV (1–2 pages) to fairee@fashion.arts.ac.uk

We also welcome submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral journey, whose research engages with AI in fashion and related fields. Interdisciplinary research drawing from management, design, computer science, cultural studies, marketing, sustainability, and social sciences.  At the Doctoral Colloquium students will get opportunity to present their research to a panel of distinguished faculty and receive structured feedback from academic discussants. They will be able to participate in scholarly discussions at the Symposium and engage in networking sessions with others attending the symposium. 

List of Topics

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integral to Fashion, the ethical dimensions of its design, deployment, and impact mandate urgent attention. The Third International FAIREE Symposium 2026 focuses on Ethics for Fashion AI, critically examining how ethical frameworks can guide responsible innovation within the global fashion ecosystem.   

Context and Rationale

The rapid proliferation of Fashion AI (FAI) offers both opportunities and dilemmas. While predictive analytics, generative design tools, and virtual sampling promise efficiency and sustainability, their ethical blind spots threaten to amplify existing inequities, creative homogenization, and environmental exploitation (Giovanola et al. 2023; Du & Chunyan, 2021).  Algorithmic fashion design risks narrowing aesthetic diversity by replacing human experimentation with data-driven uniformity (Särmäkari & Vänskä, 2022; Huang et al. 2024; Rockett et al. 2025). Moreover, sustainability gains from AI-driven supply chain management and 3D prototyping are often accessible only to digitally advanced enterprises (Murugesan et al. 2024), while fast algorithmic design cycles paradoxically accelerate production and waste (Sharma & Sharma, 2024). Even technological “solutions” like blockchain may obscure rather than reveal ethical complexities, offering an illusion of accountability that can conceal labour exploitation or cultural appropriation (Sangal et al. 2025). Unchecked ethics washing undermines trust and damages the credibility of fashion brands operating across global, interconnected supply chains.  

Beyond production, AI-driven automation raises profound ethical concerns around the displacement of designers and artisans, as well as the erosion of creative authorship. Generative algorithms capable of producing derivative designs from copyrighted works challenge the moral and legal definition of artistic ownership. Simultaneously, biased data inputs perpetuate discriminatory standards of beauty, body type, and identity (Daniels & Gupta, 2025), while opaque data practices threaten consumer privacy and autonomy (Gonçalves et al. 2024). Addressing these challenges requires a shared commitment to Ethics for Fashion AI, an interdisciplinary effort uniting technologists, designers, policymakers, and philosophers to envision AI systems that respect human values, creativity, and ecological balance.  

Themes and Topics of Interest 

FAIREE welcomes multidisciplinary conceptual papers, empirical research, case-based analysis, industry reports or any other completed or work-in-progress submissions that advance ethical discourse and practice in AI-driven fashion. Topics include (but are not limited to): 

• Ethical frameworks for responsible Fashion AI 
• Algorithmic fairness, transparency, and accountability in design and production 
• Cultural representation, inclusivity, and bias in fashion datasets 
• The ethics of automation, creativity, and artistic ownership 
• Privacy, surveillance, and data ethics in fashion personalization 
• Ethical governance and regulation of Fashion AI systems 
• Human-AI collaboration and augmented creativity 
• Ethics of digital labour, intellectual property, and AI-authored works 
• Techno-sustainability paradox: AI, waste, and overproduction 
• Brand integrity, reputation, and ethics washing in AI-driven fashion 
• Global justice, decolonial perspectives, and the digital divide in Fashion AI 
• Educational frameworks for ethical fashion technology 

Committees

Organizing committee

• Suraksha Gupta, Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion
• Satya Banerjee, Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion
• Arnab Banerjee, Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion
• Mikha Mekler, School of Design and Technology, London College of Fashion
• Andy Lee, School, School of Media and Communications, London College of Fashion

Publication

FAIREE2026 proceedings will be published by FAIREE (Fashion Artificial Intelligence Research Enterprise and Education Hub)

Venue

The inperson Symposium on 12 June will be held at the EastBank Campus of London College of Fashion

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fairee@fashion.arts.ac.uk