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Week 3 Lecture: Stephy Fung 26.01.24



Digital fashion is currently a prominent trend in the fashion industry. It involves the creation of visual representations of clothing using computer technologies and 3D software. This allows designers to develop virtual garments with highly realistic fabric textures and visually appealing details. Additionally, digital fashion often incorporates the use of avatars and computer-generated models that showcase the clothing in a virtual environment. This emerging field presents exciting opportunities for creativity, sustainability, and exploring innovative design concepts.


Digital fashion has become popular and provides new opportunities, but it will never fully replace fashion designers or pattern cutters. Digital fashion is a supporting tool that helps improve design and production procedures.


Fashion designers provide creativity and professionalism. They envision designs, perceive trends, and transform their ideas into actual apparel. Digital fashion technology benefits designers because they can see their designs and experiment with them in a virtual space before making physical prototypes. It can also help with collaboration and coordination between the designers, manufacturers and clients.


Pattern cutters have the important functionality of transforming a designer's vision into patterns that are sort of guides or blueprints for creating clothes. Their strength is their knowledge of garment construction, proportions and fit. Digital tools can help with pattern drafting and grading, but human expertise is necessary to ensure the patterns are accurate and fit well.

All in all, digital fashion technology is a useful tool that can improve the design and production process. It enables designers and pattern cutters with new capabilities and efficiencies. Nonetheless, the creative vision of fashion designers and pattern cutters and their technical skill and craftsmanship remain crucial in the business.

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