The Popken Fashion Group is an internationally operating, family-run fashion company specialized in plus-size fashion. The fashion company distributes the collections of the four brands Ulla Popken, GINA LAURA, Studio Untold and JP1880 in stores worldwide as well as through its own online stores in Germany and abroad. In order to efficiently feed the numerous catalog productions, online stores and marketplaces with the product information of its four brands, the Popken Fashion Group relies on the holistic, integrated system Online Media Net (OMN) with the modules PIM, DAM, Workflow and Channel Management of apollon GmbH+Co. KG.
Since in the fashion industry the photography of garments and accessories is of special importance and the products have to be optimally staged, the fashion company operates its own, very innovative photo studio. The annual production volume amounts to ten thousand pictures. In order to optimize the processes sustainably, the Popken Fashion Group has decided that in the future a large part of its pictures will no longer be released manually, but by artificial intelligence (AI). The new AI-based service „AI-Mask“ from apollon, which was introduced at the fashion company in 2020, came into question.