It's meant to make you hard to recognise by machines. People are fine.

At the very least, this could justify weird fashions in cyberpunk and other dystopian settings.

Looking through the pictures I was thinking, there's parts of the world where people just dress that way.

I feel like if the facial recognition systems are that good, it means if I can recognize a face, then so can it

I don't think that's true. I'm no expert on facial recognition, but I believe those systems look at more specific details, like the corners of your eyes and mouth, and where they are relative to your jawline. They're less interested in things like "could this be part of a cheek? does that hair cover a head? does the picture as a whole make sense?". They're very precise (more than we are) at measuring the exact locations of specific features, but less good at checking if the picture as a whole could be hiding a person.

So they're better than us at some things, but can still fail dramatically at things that seem trivial to us.

It's certainly not a way to stay stealthy, yeah. And frankly it's probably worse at defeating face recognition than wearing a bulky hoody and staring at your shoes while you walk. I don't think this will be identity-concealing except maybe at some cybergoth raves...

It's an awfully cool project, though; both artistic and a transformation-resilient adversarial input.

The intersection of high fashion, cutting-edge technology, political commentary, and the eternal war for human rights is an incredible thing.

Does anyone know of any other such projects in the same vein?

As Randall Monroe illustrates here: https://xkcd.com/1105/

I guess the solution could eventually be digital paint which rapidly and randomly alters itself, something akin to the scramble suits from A Scanner Darkly. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqrvzb