NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 31, 2026--
Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the leading AI and AR beauty and fashion technology provider, today announced that Vereme has integrated Perfect Corp.'s YouCam AI API suite, bringing visual intelligence to a stylist built to help people make smarter, more confident appearance decisions.
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One AI Stylist, 28 YouCam AI APIs, 18 Connected Areas
Vereme is an AI stylist designed to help users look and feel their best across 18 connected areas, including skincare, makeup, hair, fashion, fitness, fragrance, and sleep. By bringing these areas together in one experience, Vereme helps users reach their appearance goals with less waste and more enjoyment.
To power that experience, Vereme has integrated 28 of Perfect Corp.'s YouCam AI APIs — a visual intelligence layer covering AI Skin Analysis, skin and hair diagnostics, virtual try-on for makeup, hair, nails, accessories, jewelry, and eyewear, as well as AI-generated professional imagery.
Visual Intelligence Meets Emotion Intelligence
After Perfect Corp.'s visual intelligence generates a look or analysis, Vereme adds a 3D layer that helps users imagine the result. It then draws on its long-term memory of each user's style, wardrobe, skin and hair biology, budget, and upcoming events to recommend a practical way to achieve the desired look and guide them through each step. Vereme takes no brand money to shape its advice.
Perfect Corp.'s visual intelligence shows how a look appears, and Vereme's patent-pending emotion intelligence privately tracks how it makes someone feel — turning powerful visualization into guidance about what truly suits them.
From Ambitious Idea to Market-Ready AI Stylist Powered by YouCam APIs
“Appearance is the least efficient part of our lives, and the one with the highest stakes. Our mission is to make looking and feeling our best faster, easier, and cheaper, through truly personalized AI," said Emilie Sydney-Smith, Founder & CEO of Vereme . "Perfect Corp.'s YouCam AI APIs gave us world-class visual intelligence and skin analysis from day one, so our team could focus on the layers that make advice trustworthy: emotion intelligence, and a strict refusal to take brand money.”
“AI APIs are enabling a new generation of builders make products that would once have taken a large team and a long roadmap,” said Alice Chang, Founder and CEO of Perfect Corp. "We're excited to support Vereme as they create a truly personalized appearance platform that helps consumers make more informed decisions, discover what makes them feel their best, and ultimately live more confident, fulfilling lives. Our AI APIs enable startups to bring ambitious ideas to market faster while delivering intelligent experiences that create meaningful value for consumers."
A Flexible AI API Suite for Faster Development
Perfect Corp.'s comprehensive AI API suite enables developers, startups, and enterprise brands to seamlessly integrate advanced AI and AR capabilities into beauty, skincare, fashion, and retail experiences. Through its flexible API platform, organizations can rapidly build personalized consumer applications powered by industry-leading AI technologies, accelerating innovation while reducing development complexity.
For more information about Vereme, visit: https://vereme.com/
For more information about Perfect Corp.’s API suite, visit https://yce.perfectcorp.com/ai-api
About Perfect Corp.
Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF) is a global leader in AI and AR technology, redefining creativity across beauty, fashion, skincare, and digital content creation. Its YouCam suite of apps has been downloaded over 1.1 billion times globally, empowering users to create, edit, and express themselves through photo, video, and generative AI tools. The YouCam platform also includes a powerful web-based editor and a suite of developer APIs, providing creators, brands, and technology partners with seamless access to content creation capabilities across platforms.
For brands and professionals, Perfect Corp. offers an award-winning portfolio of enterprise technologies, including virtual try-on experiences for makeup, hair, jewelry, watches, and fashion accessories, as well as AI-powered skin and hair analysis.
With a brand portfolio that includes YouCam and Skincare Pro, and a network of over 800 global brand partners, Perfect Corp. is transforming the beauty experience through personalized, immersive, and intelligent innovation.
For more information, visit perfectcorp.com and follow @Perfect-Corp.
About Vereme
Vereme is an AI-powered appearance optimization platform designed to help consumers achieve their personal appearance goals across beauty, skincare, fashion, wellness, and confidence. By combining personalized AI guidance with advanced visualization technologies, Vereme helps users discover what makes them look and feel their best while reducing unnecessary purchases and creating a more intentional approach to personal style. Vereme was founded by Emilie Sydney-Smith, Founder & CEO, who previously built a startup to a $300 million valuation in two years and, as Chief Transformation Officer of a $10 billion company, helped some of the world's largest businesses modernize with AI.
Perfect Corp. Brings Visual Intelligence to Vereme’s New AI Stylist With 28 YouCam APIs Across Skin, Hair, Makeup, and Accessories
MILAN (AP) — Soldiers spread out in Milan and luxury boutiques were boarded up in the Italian fashion and finance capital as protesters launched fresh demonstrations on Saturday, one week after looting and clashes with police.
Premier Giorgia Meloni announced a raft of measures, including sending an additional 500 soldiers to Milan and tougher penalties for minors, who police said made up a large part of the violent protesters last week.
While protests in France have claimed most international attention, large demonstrations are also rocking many European cities Saturday from Milan to Madrid, Lisbon and Tirana.
The protests encompass a broad range of issues from pensions and housing to anti-war movements, education and corruption.
The 500 soldiers deployed to Milan come in addition to hundreds already stationed there, and will support about 5,000 police and other law enforcement personnel. Authorities are using drone surveillance, checks at railway stations, rapid-response units and online monitoring for potential calls to violence. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala has said he is concerned about a repeat of violence this weekend and expressed support for the deployment of more soldiers.
Many stores, particularly luxury boutiques within Milan's fashion district including Omega, Tiffany and Gucci, boarded up their front windows.
Rioters last weekend smashed their way into stores, targeting sneakers, athletic wear and sporting goods on streets that run off the city’s central Duomo square.
Officials said security measures on Saturday would extend beyond the city center amid concerns protesters could move into other neighborhoods.
Valter Mazzetti, secretary-general of the Fsp police union, told The Associated Press that soldiers could provide immediate reinforcements but not resolve police staffing shortages.
Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in a social media post that the soldiers were only recently allowed to use plastic restraint ties and only in areas around train stations, not throughout the city. They are not authorized to carry pepper spray or tasers, he said.
Milan police say last week's violence and looting involved about 2,000 very young protesters, a large number of whom were “naturalized, second-generation Italians,” alongside foreign nationals. Over two days, police arrested 45 people, including 34 minors.
Milan’s welfare councilor, Lamberto Bertolé, told the AP that more investigation is needed to understand the backgrounds and motives of the young people who joined the looting.
“Many young people increasingly lack a sense of belonging and prospects for the future. Part of our society feels excluded, amid social and economic inequalities,” said Bertolé, of the center-left Democratic Party.
Security was also heightened in Rome, where authorities locked down luxury shopping streets and stepped up controls around the Circus Maximus and Piazza del Popolo.
Several hundred students demonstrated peacefully to stress they were not rioters.
“I think the images from last week were truly something terrible, especially for the young people, for the students, for the vast majority of the younger generations who want to study, want to make proposals, and do not accept being represented by those who use issues and needs to devastate entire cities,” said Riccardo Ponzio, national president of an Italian far-right student association.
A separate anti-war march took off in central Rome, and there are concerns over possible infiltration by violent groups.
Organizers sought to distance themselves from potential unrest, urging participants to keep their faces uncovered and hands visible.
Aside from Rome and Milan, demonstrations have been called in at least seven other cities. The newly formed “Oct. 17 Movement” has been the main driver alongside student federations, grassroots trade unions, and anti-war coalitions.
In Albania's capital Tirana, riot police used water cannons on large groups of protesters, some of whom threw projectiles at police. Authorities said 2,500 police officers are patrolling the streets Saturday.
For over a week, protesters have hurled rocks, flares, firebombs and fireworks at police who have used batons and tear gas in clashes in the city center.
High school and university students are demanding lower tuition fees, greater state investment in education and protesting corruption in the education system. Some have joined a broader anti-government movement calling for the resignation of Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama.
A separate protest organized by the opposition outside the prime minister's office turned violent earlier, with some activists lighting fires on the street.
Rama said Saturday his government was preparing a response to the students' demands and called them to a dialogue. He warned that violent protesters will face penalties.
Thousands of retirees and others marched in Spain's capital Saturday to demand public pensions aren’t meddled with.
Large crowds marched peacefully down streets in central Madrid, waving colorful flags and banners reading “protect pensions” and “decent pensions for today and the future."
“They are threatening us with privatizing pensions. It’s just another thing they want to profit from," said Maria José Benito, 68.
The protests came ahead of next month’s snap election as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party criticized the conservative opposition Popular Party for making overtures about privatizing public pensions.
Spain has been roiled by protests this fall around the issue of housing, as rental and home costs have risen in recent years beyond what many Spaniards can afford.
In Spanish cities, a housing supply shortage has worsened thanks to population growth driven by immigration and a proliferation of short-term rentals. The September eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her rented apartment in Madrid triggered huge street protests.
A tent camp protest has remained in the capital’s Puerta del Sol square for almost a month.
Taking their cue from Spaniards, protesters in Lisbon who have been gathering to demand affordable housing are expected to march across the city on Saturday.
They have also targeted recent measures announced by the government of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro that include easing the cap on yearly rent increases and facilitating the eviction of tenants who fail to pay rent.
Montenegro defends the measures saying that it aims at reinforcing trust between tenants and landlords and boosting the rentals market. Protesters claim that the measures are not balanced and put tenants in a more vulnerable position.
Associated Press writers Sylvia Hui in London, Demetris Nellas in Athens, Suman Naishadham in Madrid, Giada Zampano in Rome; and videojournalists Niccolò Lupone in Milan, Veronica Sauchelli in Rome, Alicia León in Madrid and Helena Alves in Lisbon contributed to this report.
Italian army paratroopers patrol the area around Milan's Duomo Cathedral, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, ahead of expected protests against the rising cost of living and deteriorating public services during one of several protests in Italy organized by groups across the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Protesters gather outside the Prime Minister's office during an anti-government rally, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)
Shop windows are boarded up in Milan, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, ahead of a protest against the rising cost of living and deteriorating public services, one of several demonstrations organized across Italy by groups spanning the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Members of right-wing student groups march through the streets of Rome, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, during a demonstration called "Unlock Everything," organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests and one of several demonstrations held by groups across the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Members of right-wing student groups march through the streets of Rome during a demonstration called "Unlock Everything," organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests and one of several demonstrations held by groups across the political spectrum, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Members of right-wing student groups march through the streets of Rome during a demonstration called "Unlock Everything," organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests and one of several demonstrations held by groups across the political spectrum, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Members of right-wing student groups march through the streets of Rome, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, during a demonstration called "Unlock Everything," organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests and one of several demonstrations held by groups across the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Members of right-wing student groups march through the streets of Rome, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, during a demonstration called "Unlock Everything," organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests and one of several demonstrations held by groups across the political spectrum. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
