An algorithm for creating an outfit.

Purchasing clothing, particularly a suit, is not an everyday issue for people, and therefor it becomes the role of the retailer to facilitate, inform and guide people through the process. The retailer must use their knowledge of styling (matching appropriate colours, details, textures, a garment's meaning), product performance, fit etc., to meet the customer's specific needs.

Colour Matching

Creating balanced, pleasing to the eye outfits are not just made by those with a gift for 'style'; there are colour matching rules, when applied to an outfit they complement, blend, or accentuate one another. These rules compliment the outfit creation and selling process, as each combination makes a certain statement about the owner e.g. 'casual', 'formal', 'powerful', 'subtle' etc.

John Waters on Style

John Waters - Writer, Director, Producer, the 'Pope of Trash' and big fan of Japanese deconstructed fashion, has this to say on being creative with fashion, from his book Role Models:

Slimane and Berlin #1

Hedi Slimane, Designer of Dior Homme from 2001 through 2007, was a huge fan and took much inspiration from youth culture in Berlin and London, while he was designing collections in Paris. Slimane's style was a kind of addiction for his Dior Homme customers, and a source of trend direction for designers of high and low, male and female fashion.

Der Stil #1 - Pleated Trousers

"A house is a machine for living in." - Le Corbusier. Along with other postmodern designers, Le Corbusier attempted to create harmony of form and function, and dismiss "frivolous ornament."