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The metaverse is well and truly upon us. You can't turn a corner without hearing about NFTs, AR and VR technology, avatars, and countless other buzzwords. But why should the fashion industry care about the metaverse, what are the implications of not embracing it, and what impact is this new digital era having on the notoriously sluggish fashion supply chain? Metaverse Origins You might think the metaverse is a new-fangled term since Mr. Zuckerberg announced the Facebook to Meta name ...

In the final installment of our two-part article, we would like to share some of Frontier’s highlights from days two and four of the 2021 World Digital Textile Forum. You can view part one here. Day two’s agenda focused on jump-starting 3D design innovation. Frontier’s CSO, Wayne Fan, joined in on the panel discussion. Victor Chao, CEO of Frontier, offered a great summary of the four-day event on the final day. Click here to download the full recordings from the 2021 World Digi...

The first-ever World Digital Textile Forum came to a close last week. This four-day event — held online — brought together global business leaders and experts from the fashion world to share opinions, insights, predictions, and set the new standards for the digital textile industry. The keynote speakers and panelists of the 2021 World Digital Textile Forum As we know, the global textile industry is undergoing significant changes as it embraces and leverages new digital te...

Frontier had the pleasure of speaking about how to accelerate 3D material digitization for digital product creation at this year's 3D TECH Festival - hosted by Motif and Alvanon. We received so many unique and interesting questions at the event, we decided that it would be a great idea to share some of them with you. While reading this article, you may come up with some questions of your own; please feel free to contact us; we're always happy to help. So, without...

The Frontier 3D Fabric Creator's AI engine has just had a massive upgrade, which means designers and brands can now access huge amounts of 3D materials more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Selecting fabrics and planning collections can now happen instantaneously - with all team members involved. This revolutionary AI development opens the door to more 3D material of impeccable quality — so good you can almost feel it. What's more, Frontier facilitates the digitization and ge...

Digital materials are one of the fashion industry’s most in-demand resources. But because of bottlenecks in traditional material digitization, digital product creation is hard to scale and accessible into routine process. By applying a new AI solution, material digitization could become more streamlined in supplier partnership which could support brand business achieve technology and sustainability goals. In this talk, we will explore: 1.Why everyone talks about digit...

Fashion on-demand production has always been a difficulty yet highly sought-after model with less inventory, less process time, and more efficiency. Design and production in fashion are typically a long and cumbersome process, sometimes requiring nearly a year to plan and move products to market. However, with the help of digital design software, automation and AR/VR technology, and data analytic engines, there is a massive potential for fashion companies to reach out the on-demand production ...

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 ...