Many cultural traits exhibit volatile dynamics, commonly dubbed fashions or fads. Here we show that realistic fashion-like dynamics emerge spontaneously if individuals can copy others' preferences for cultural traits as well as traits themselves. We demonstrate this dynamics in simple mathematical models of the diffusion, and subsequent abandonment, of a single cultural trait which individuals ...

We propose a method to try to model fashionable dresses in this paper. We first discover common visual patterns that appear in dress images using a human-in-the-loop, active clustering approach. A fashionable dress is expected to contain certain visual patterns which make it fashionable. An approach is proposed to jointly identify fashionable visual patterns and learn a discriminative fashion c...