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French AI solution architect turned founder: designs neural-network systems for a living, built the try-on that dresses your photo, and renders every outfit in these guides before writing a word about it.
The short version
Maxence Aurel is a French AI solution architect, and the founder of Wear It On Me. Maxence designed and built the try-on behind this site: the system that takes one photo and a set of garments and returns a single picture of the whole outfit on you, one model pass per piece, with your face, your body and your background left exactly as they were. The guides on this blog are what happens when that system is pointed at the questions people actually ask before an event, and its architect looks at the result with a professional eye.
Where the eye comes from
Solution architecture across the whole of AI, before and alongside Wear It On Me: neural networks designed end to end, from the model choice to the pipeline that runs it in production, in computer vision, generative imagery, language and the less glamorous systems that sit behind them. Part of that work was for fashion and luxury houses, where the bar for an image is simple and brutal: it has to pass as a product photograph on the maison's own site. The exact drape of a bias-cut satin. Where light sits on velvet and where it dies. What a hem does a quarter inch from the floor. Nobody in that world accepts "close enough", and that is the standard applied to every render here. When a render fails it, the guide says so, in the text, next to the picture. The houses stay unnamed: their work is theirs.
An engineer's guide, on purpose
A stylist tells you what works. A render shows you, on a body, before you spend anything. These guides put the two together. The stylists and etiquette references quoted in every guide are the authority on what to wear, and they are cited by name with a link. What Maxence adds is the part they cannot: the outfit seen on two mannequin body types, the comparison, the one that looked right on the hanger and wrong on the figure. The opinions are Maxence's, they are labelled as opinions, and there is always at least one thing in each guide that Maxence would not wear.
How a guide is made
One question per guide, the one people type into a search engine. The answer in the first paragraph, then the renders, then the reasons. Every outfit is rendered before it is written about, on the same grey mannequins the look builder offers. Drafting is assisted by a language model; the brief, the choices, the opinions and the final text are Maxence's, and no guide is published without being read in full. Sources are listed at the end, and the numbers in the text come from them.
Independence
When a guide links to a retailer through an affiliate network such as Awin, Wear It On Me earns a commission if the reader buys; those links are marked, and it costs the reader nothing extra. A commission never decides what a guide recommends: the render decides, and every guide names at least one thing Maxence would not wear. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no brand has paid to appear. Wear It On Me is a paid product, and the guides exist so that a reader arrives at the try-on with a look worth trying.
Contact
Corrections, questions, or a render that misled you: write to the address on the legal notice. Guides are fixed and the change is dated. How we make these guides has the rest.