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Digital materials are one of the fashion industry’s most in-demand resources. Let’s find out how machine learning and artificial intelligence can finally help companies to scale digitization, create 3D materials and build your sustainable supply network In this paper that we meticulously put together with the Interline, you will learn: 1. Why everyone talks about digital product creation, but implementation always falls short 2. How to plan y...

As the fashion industry moves more towards digital product creation strategies, digital materials have quickly become one of the most in-demand resources for brands and designers, especially 3D fabric. What used to be a sequence of analogue processes such as design visualization, prototyping, sampling, and fitting are now going digital throughout the fashion industry. This critical design and development work continues to shift in a way that speeds up processes in order to keep up with fast-...

Here’s an easy and cost-efficient way to boost your brand's performance. As the world faces an unprecedented health crisis and global economic shock, the apparel and fashion industry have been experiencing many challenges to meet the demands of consumers around the world. The answer to these challenges : digital sourcing and virtual design. Given this dilemma, brands have to act quickly to cater to their consumers' demands by shifting from traditional to digital sourcing of materials, and cre...

Textile development is often complex. The common tools used to source materials from suppliers are the company’s internal textile database and a communication platform. The use of specializes software should have made tasks easier to do, but instead the use of different systems throughout the supply chain makes things more complicated, resulting in inefficient workflow processes. The discord between different systems is just one of the problems that going digital has presented. More challenges...

Taiwan possesses the leading textile technology among the world. With the diversity and differentiation in the new product development, Taiwan plays an important role in the global functional textiles supply chains, reaching 70% of global market share. In the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 75% of the top 16 teams chose the functional textiles made in Taiwan. For the functional textiles, Taiwan has developed a certification system “TFT” with 23 verification standards, allowing the buyers and customers ...

The Taiwan Tex Sourcing platform, organized by Taiwan Textile Federation, is a strategic business tool that all retailers as well as brands around the world can be helped to source qualified Taiwanese textile mills who supply those functional fabrics with health-care, comfort, safety and sustainability. The detailed specification and image of the functional fabrics are well illustrated. Contacts of each mill are all presented at the platform of Taiwan Tex Sourcing. During the COVID-19 Pandemi...

The global fashion industry is currently valued at around $3 trillion, and this is expected to maintain its course as technological innovations within the fashion sector are incorporated into existing manufacturing procedures. According to reports, almost 44% of fashion retailers have a high failure risk if they continue to avoid investing in technologies that can help maintain their market relevance. With these developments in the textile business, it seems that AI in the fashion industry is a...

According to studies from Accenture, customers are now more conscious of their spending. They’re less likely to spend on personal grooming, home décor, travel, luxuries, and fashion, and buy more from brands that they’ve tried and tested. Fashion boutiques and shops are closing, garment manufacturers have limited operations, offices are seldom used, and more customers are preferring online shopping. The changes in the fashion industry will be inevitable and it’s up to y...

The fashion industry is currently using two types of supply chain management strategies, namely, push and pull. Large companies in the clothing industry are used to the push supply chain method, but they’re slowly veering away from solely using this strategy. More businesses are using a hybrid approach, especially the bigger enterprises that can handle the cost of providing the usual merchandise while opening doors for custom orders. Smaller businesses, on the other hand, a...

Due to the global health crisis, there have been massive cancellations on local and international bookings, as well as the postponement of upcoming fabric trade shows. While some businesses in other countries are starting to slowly open up, the majority is still waiting for the economy to resume its usual state. But since there’s no guarantee when this crisis will end, companies are starting to look for alternatives that can keep their employees and customers safe while ensuring the bu...

Traditionally, merchandise is stored in one giant warehouse -- where all orders are delivered from. This system makes monitoring goods easier because all items come and go from a single location. However, the erratic fluctuations in customer demands and preferences make traditional logistic networks inefficient and inflexible. In addition to this, the need for a same-day or next-day delivery service has made the competition between businesses tighter, rendering the single-warehouse logi...

Traditional textile manufacturing involves a long and expensive process of transforming raw fibers into useable rolls of fabric that can be freely utilized to create new clothes and other fashion merchandise. However, the rapid changes in consumer trends render this manufacturing process impractical, inflexible, and inaccessible to an increasing number of retailers, especially smaller companies and individuals who heavily rely on online selling. The introduction of on-demand textile man...