Retooling: Why The Future Of Footwear Is Digital
The footwear industry has been at the forefront of 3D, but it still faces a difficult question: whether to design and engineer in 3D and visualise after, or to take the opposite approach.
The Imperative of Additive Manufacturing in Footwear and Apparel Post-Covid
How will the industry react to disrupted supply chains and accelerated consumer demands for sustainability and customization? Opportunity for change, or back to business as usual?
Video Interview: Is Digital Dyeing Ready For Prime-Time?
Replacing traditional dyeing methods with new digital solutions has the potential to transform an overlooked area of production.
But how far can digital dyeing go, and what does a future ecosystem built around it look like?
Redesigning Fashion with AI-Powered Supply Chains
The pandemic has intensified underlying problems with fashion supply chains. To cope with volatility and manage the unexpected, retailers and manufacturers now have the unavoidable task of evolving their manufacturing models through a hybrid of AI and IoT.
Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials
As fashion moves further into digital product creation, digital materials are increasingly in the spotlight. But creating them has been a more complex, time-consuming process than most designers can afford. Machine learning could be about to change all that.
3D: Bridging The Brand-Supplier Divide
With the initial rush to 3D over, is digital product creation running the risk of overlooking the people who actually create products? Or does a true, end-to-end, 3D ecosystem have the potential to bridge the longstanding brand-supplier divide?
Digitalising The Supply Chain – How Technology Is Becoming An Enabler For Change
True material transparency has two prerequisites: visibility at the fibre level, and the right technology to carry that visibility from one end of the value chain to the other, with integrity. The pieces are falling into place for both.
How Virtual Fabric Sourcing Is Opening Doors For Emerging Designers and Micro-Brands
The digitisation of material sourcing is a matter of efficiency and business continuity for large enterprises. For micro-brands and emerging designers, it’s a door to a whole new world.
Webinar Replay: 3D And DPC Survey Discussion
Late last year, Kalypso, The Interline, and a panel of industry insiders and experts convened to discuss the findings of the landmark 3D and digital product creation maturity survey. That live event was quickly booked up, but is now being made available as a full replay, to benchmark digital product creation for 2021.
Benchmarking Digital Product Creation for 2021
The assumption is that COVID has kick-started a surge in uptake of 3D and digital product creation technologies. How far does reality reflect that assumption? And how much further does fashion intend to take 3D in the near future?
Going Rogue: Is Fashion’s Next Generation Of Talent Skipping 2D In Favour Of 3D?
As adoption of 3D design, development, simulation and visualisation tools increases, what role does 2D patternmaking still have to play? Can it be sidestepped entirely? And what might that mean for the future of digital design?
Interline Identities: Amir Lehr, CEO, Optitex
With 3D firmly established as one of the keys to fashion’s digital transformation, a lot is riding on the shoulders of technology vendors. We talked to Optitex CEO Amir Lehr about what it means to be up to the challenge, and how much farther he believes digital product creation can go.
Why Is The Well Of Digital Product Creation Talent Running Dry?
The gap between the digital skills the fashion industry wants to hire and what’s actually being taught to students is widening. But where does the responsibility of hiring, training, and educating the next generation fall?
What’s Driving Digital Design & Development?
It’s clear the pandemic has pulled digitisation forward for everyone. But are the primary forces driving digital design coming from inside or out?
Interline Identities: Ian Ravenshaw Bland, CEO, SO REAL
We talk to SO REAL about how cross-industry innovation promises to help automate the creation of digital twins for fashion – at scale, and at speed.
ideation 2020 – The Interline report
Near the end of last year, The Interline spoke at and attended Gerber Technology’s marquee event, ideation, which had been reimagined digitally. With the year behind us, we reflect on what ideation 2020 had to say, and what it meant for online industry events in general.
The Full Fashion-Tech Spectrum
Throughout 2020 and into 2021, we will be covering the following hot fashion technology topics:
