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Digital Pattern Making: a Personal Story

Digital, Human, Vol. 2, Issue 1

For more than twenty years, different types of software for designing sewing patterns have appeared on the market, mainly 2D CAD adapted to specific tailoring requirements. They are not sold alone, but are part of complex platforms that include other…

Portrait: Simona La Torre, Variazioni

Human, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Simona, can you describe your business model? I call it demi-couture, halfway between ready-wear and houte couture: for each model I produce three or four specimens, they are ready-made garments but can be replicated with some variation and/or difference in…

Fandom Markets

Human, Vol. 1, Issue 1

Fandom of TV, film, or games offers huge potential for themed clothing, but narrow windows of opportunity impose digital production. According to Fashionista, ‘pink it and shrink it’ is still the most-used tactic for designing clothes for women sports fans….

Fashion Trends

Human, Vol. 1, Issue 1

Forecasting is absolutely essential since the entire fashion industry progresses based on trends. In this globalized fashion environment where everything changes very quickly, a common denominator is the trend. In the fashion life cycle, inspiration and design based on forecasting…

Cultural Heritage

Human, Vol. 1, Issue 1

Fashion constantly recycles the past. Textures, colours, decorative motifs, all reappear: but not in exactly the same form, as materials and technology evolve and – above all – because context changes. Design the future through the past It is no…

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