# ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? > Source: > Published: 2026-07-17 09:00:05+00:00 # ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? By Amelia HillSource: [The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend. Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some [computer vision](/glossary/computer-vision) systems. [Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream) Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.