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Rebuilding Post-COVID With A Smart, Sustainable Sourcing Strategy

byThe Interline X Cotton Incorporated
April 29, 2021
6.1K views

There are a number of urgent reasons for brands and retailers to understand the scope and shape of their supply chains. Any smart sourcing strategy should start at the raw material level, which makes cotton the perfect case study.

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DDigital Product Creation

Retooling: Why The Future Of Footwear Is Digital

byRoss Authers
April 23, 2021
8.7K views

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.

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SSourcing And Supply Chain

The Imperative of Additive Manufacturing in Footwear and Apparel Post-Covid

byPercy Chinoy
April 15, 2021
8.1K views

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?

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DDigital Product Creation

Video Interview: Is Digital Dyeing Ready For Prime-Time?

byMark Harrop
April 14, 2021
6.1K views

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?

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SSourcing And Supply Chain

Redesigning Fashion with AI-Powered Supply Chains

byTiffany Lung
April 12, 2021
12.4K views

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.

8 minute read

MMaterial Innovation

Machine Learning: The Secret to Getting Started with Digital Materials

byThe Interline X Unity
April 7, 2021
6.1K views

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.

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SSourcing And Supply Chain

3D: Bridging The Brand-Supplier Divide

byThe Interline X Style3D
April 6, 2021
9.1K views

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?

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MMaterial Innovation

Digitalising The Supply Chain – How Technology Is Becoming An Enabler For Change

byShannon Mercer
March 25, 2021
6.1K views

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.

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MMaterial Innovation

How Virtual Fabric Sourcing Is Opening Doors For Emerging Designers and Micro-Brands

byAasia D'Vaz-Sterling
March 11, 2021
7.2K views

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.

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DDigital Product Creation

Webinar Replay: 3D And DPC Survey Discussion

byThe Interline X Kalypso
March 9, 2021
6.4K views

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.

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DDigital Product Creation

Benchmarking Digital Product Creation for 2021

byThe Interline X Kalypso
March 3, 2021
9.6K views

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?

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DDigital Product Creation

Going Rogue: Is Fashion’s Next Generation Of Talent Skipping 2D In Favour Of 3D?

byBrooke Roberts-Islam
February 25, 2021
9.7K views

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?

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DDigital Product Creation

Interline Identities: Amir Lehr, CEO, Optitex

byThe Interline
February 24, 2021
8.2K views

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.

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DDigital Product Creation

Why Is The Well Of Digital Product Creation Talent Running Dry?

byRahul Verma
February 22, 2021
4.8K views

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?