FITS: Towards an AI-Driven Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26017v2
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:35:07 GMT
• Title: FITS: Towards an AI-Driven Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability
• Authors: Daphne Theodorakopoulos, Elisabeth Eberling, Miriam Bodenheimer, Sabine Loos, Frederic Stahl,
• Abstract summary: This work explores how Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be applied to classify sustainability data for fashion brands.<n>We present a prototype Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability (FITS), a transformer-based system that extracts and classifies sustainability information.<n>FITS allows users to search for relevant data, analyze their own data, and explore the information via an interactive interface.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Access to credible sustainability information in the fashion industry remains limited and challenging to interpret, despite growing public and regulatory demands for transparency. General-purpose language models often lack domain-specific knowledge and tend to "hallucinate", which is particularly harmful for fields where factual correctness is crucial. This work explores how Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be applied to classify sustainability data for fashion brands, thereby addressing the scarcity of credible and accessible information in this domain. We present a prototype Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability (FITS), a transformer-based system that extracts and classifies sustainability information from credible, unstructured text sources: NGO reports and scientific publications. Several BERT-based language models, including models pretrained on scientific and climate-specific data, are fine-tuned on our curated corpus using a domain-specific classification schema, with hyperparameters optimized via Bayesian optimization. FITS allows users to search for relevant data, analyze their own data, and explore the information via an interactive interface. We evaluated FITS in two focus groups of potential users concerning usability, visual design, content clarity, possible use cases, and desired features. Our results highlight the value of domain-adapted NLP in promoting informed decision-making and emphasize the broader potential of AI applications in addressing climate-related challenges. Finally, this work provides a valuable dataset, the SustainableTextileCorpus, along with a methodology for future updates. Code available at [github(.)com/daphne12345/FITS](https://github.com/daphne12345/FITS).

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