Designing Size Inclusive Fashion Assortments

Explore a seminar on designing size-inclusive fashion assortments in this 40-minute talk by Alireza Alavi from McGill University. Delve into the challenges faced by fashion retailers in balancing profitability with size inclusivity. Learn about a collaborative project with a major European online fashion retailer that aims to address the under-representation of plus-sized options. Discover a novel approach that integrates a measure of pairwise fairness among customer size groups into the assortment optimization problem. Examine the development of exact and approximate algorithms to find Nash equilibria in a zero-sum game model. Gain insights into how mixed strategy equilibria can be interpreted as displaying multiple assortments randomly and potentially concealing inventory. Analyze simulation results that demonstrate a significant reduction in unfairness with minimal revenue sacrifice, showcasing the practicality and efficiency of the proposed algorithm for fashion retailers seeking to enhance size inclusivity in their product offerings.