About Adornu

A product page should let a shopper picture the piece on themselves.

Adornu is a virtual try-on step for fashion and jewelry stores. It exists because a photograph of a piece on somebody else answers a different question from the one a shopper is asking.

The problem

Context is the part a catalogue cannot supply

Jewelry and clothing are bought on how they will look worn. A necklace on velvet, a dress on a hanger, a jacket on a mannequin: each is a faithful record of the object and a poor answer to “what would this look like on me?”. Shoppers fill the gap with guesswork, and stores fill it with returns.

Photographs of a model help, but the model is not the shopper. The proportions, colouring and style that make a piece work are personal, and the closer a preview gets to the person doing the looking, the more of the decision it can carry.

A studio photograph of a woman in a warm ivory setting wearing a fine gold chain with an oval citrine pendant.
Illustrative campaign image. A catalogue can show the piece; only the shopper's own context shows how it wears.

What we’re building

The experience, for shoppers and for merchants

For a shopper: the piece they are already looking at, placed in a photograph of themselves, compared against the original with one control, without leaving the product page. Today the demo on this site does exactly that: ten example products with ready-made results on our sample model, and live AI try-ons on your own photo or product.

For a merchant: a panel that sits with the product, uses the store’s own photography, and asks nothing of the shopper beyond a photo. How it joins a particular store is a conversation, not a download — and platforms and timelines are not published until they are real.

Prepared full-length photograph of the sample model wearing the plum midi dress.
A prepared example from the demo: the plum midi dress on the full-body sample model. Illustrative only.

Principles

Three things the design holds to

  • Clear interaction

    Three steps a shopper can name: choose a product, choose a photo, see the result. One action, one comparison control, and states that say what is happening in plain words.

  • Visual presentation

    The photograph is the point. Controls sit beneath it, nothing is laid over a face, and prepared examples are always labelled as examples.

  • Continuity with your store

    Your photography, your product names, your page. The panel is part of the product page, in your colours and your order, not a destination of its own.

See it for yourself.

The demo takes a minute; a conversation about your store takes a little longer.