NYFW 25’ Recap: FIT Speaking Panel
I had the pleasure of speaking at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) during NYFW 2025 as part of a panel hosted by Clare Tattersall of Digital Fashion Week—great conversation and great company.
I spoke alongside Jana Delamarter of Meta, Brendon Rondon of J.Crew, Philip Malamatos of CLO, and our moderator, Nova Lorraine of House of Nova. We dug into the ways AI, AR, and VR are shaking up the fashion and digital industry and what that means for creatives like us—how it’s already impacting the industry and where we think it’s all headed.
I shared my take on something I’ve thought about a lot: to make it rather blunt, emerging tech is going to evolve whether we like it or not. It’s moving fast—almost too fast—and I get why that makes a lot of creatives nervous. The idea that AI could replace designers, art directors, and creatives in general is a more than reasonable fear to have. But honestly, I don’t see it that way.
I see it as a tool, not a takeover—a way to create efficiency in our process, so we can actually focus on the thing we love most: creating. The more I think about it, the more I see AI as something that helps eliminate the tedious parts, so we can put more time and energy into the storytelling, the artistry, the actual vision behind the work. Allowing it to help us accelerate while still innovating.
Because at the end of the day, art is about perspective. It’s about how we, as humans, interpret the world and translate that into something that resonates. A computer might be able to generate an image, but it can’t feel something and decide to create because of it. That’s where we come in. Because as artists, and specifically as human beings, when we create, it’s truly a reflection of how we see the world. That inaate ability is something that I believe cant just be programmed, it has to be felt.
This is a conversation I know isn’t going anywhere, and honestly, I definitely plan to keep talking about it. Going into the detail in the future about how I personally use these tools myself in my very own process. As creatives, we can’t sit back and let this technology pass us by—we have to understand it, adapt to it as best we can, and make it work for us not against us.