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Algorithm Design for Production

Optimization in the Fashion


Industry: Reducing Waste and
Increasing Output

Introduction:

Around the world, the fashion industry


generates tens of millions of tons of textile
waste every year. Subsequently leading to the
great global pollution among the leading
contributors. Thus, a growing number of
fashion professionals are rethinking their
workflows for this particular reason. This led
to the usage of technology to reduce fabric
wastage as much as possible. Today, less
fashion waste and more efficiency are the
emerging trends in fashion design.
Algorithmic Couture aims to reduce fashion
industry waste with digital customisation:

Synflux is a speculative fashion laboratory


that develops algorithmic couture, a design
system that utilizes machine learning
algorithms to automate the creation of zero-
waste fashion patterns and digitize traditional
haute couture techniques to create customized
ethical fashion garments. The company was
founded in 2019 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Synflux has developed a system of digitised
couture that reduces the amount of fabric
needed to make clothes by creating garments
that exactly fit the wearer's body. Synflux's
system also allows the user to customise the
shape, fabric and colour of the final garment to
reflect their personal style.

Called Algorithimic Couture, the project was


presented at Design Indaba last month and
involves 3D-scanning a body to determine its
exact proportions, which are used to create
customised clothing. Algorithimic Couture
uses machine learning to create clothing that
uses as little fabric as possible
Synflux runs machine-learning algorithms
over the data collected to find the optimum
garment pattern that reduces fabric waste to
zero. The programme then generates
optimised fashion pattern modules comprised
of 2D rectangles and straight lines.

These 2D modules that make up the overall


garment are then modelled using computer-
aided design (CAD) software to produce a
fashion pattern for an item of clothing that is
both comfortable and sustainable. By utilising
3D-scanning technology alongside computer-
aided design (CAD) software, we are able to
optimise garments to the unique body types of
the user, independent from the prêt-a-porter
system.

The garments are optimised to user's unique


body shapes
Algorithmic Couture is a collaboration
between project lead and fashion designer
Kazuya Kawasaki, Shimizu, designer Kotaro
Sano and machine learning engineer Yusuke
Fujihira, who together make up Synflux.

The team found that current methods of


designing clothes result in a 15 per cent
wastage of fabric, and looked for a solution in
the digital world. The standard system of
sizing in the fashion industry, not only
produces unnecessary waste but also results in
an inferior fit for the customer. Algorithmic
Couture aims to democratise haute couture
customisation culture prevalent in the 19th-
century, by revitalising how we fashion our
own style through personalisation in the
digital design process.

We can also use augmented reality tool (an


augmented reality is a technology that
overspread interactive digital elements such as
3D models and animations into real world
environment ) method to achieve our goal of
reducing waste and increase the product.
Using this method, the buyer can try distinct
variety of dresses in 3D form and then decide
what to buy. This method is very efficient
since the buyer will know what to buy and
hence only the required number of dresses will
be manufactured. Now a days this kind of
method is very famous because it gives the
buyer an option of trying various designs and
product and then they can decide what they
want without even trying them out in the
showroom.

Textile Waste in the Fashion Industry:


Fast fashion is a major contributor to waste
in the fashion industry. Fast fashion is
extremely popular with consumers, but it faces
a lot of criticism for its historical lack of
sustainability. This subfield of fashion design
involves the mass production of trendy
clothing with a low price point. Researchers
estimate that the fashion industry adds more to
climate change than both aviation and
shipping combined. In part, this is due to the
kinds of materials used for some clothing,
such as plastic, polyester and nylon. This led
to the fashion industry professionals to find a
way to reduce fashion waste in a possible way.
As a result, embracing the idea of exploring
the new technology that makes mare efficient
clothing production in a possible manner. We
can achieve this goal by monitoring fabric
utilization. By using technology to monitor
fabric utilization, one can reduce fabric waste
and save costs. More importantly we can
reduce the amount of fabric that gets thrown
away. There are many apps which helps us to
find Solution for Better Fashion Waste
Management and one of its example is to use
smart mark marker making software. SMART
mark enables you to manage your fabric
utilization.
We can
also Reducing Waste and Increasing Output
by using many other technological ways:
We can use the method of RFID to reduce
waste and loss. When we use radio frequency
identification (RFID) for your warehouse or
retail establishment, you can more easily know
your stock levels. That stops you from wasting
so much product. RFID is an excellent method
of using technological advancements to
coordinate product movement. That not only
allows products to get between the warehouse
and the retailers faster, but it reduces the waste
produced from sending products to the wrong
place or sending too many products for a
retailer to sell effectively. By combining AI
and AFID creating the right garments in the
right volume and then making sure they are
shipped to the right place helps us in a biggest
way to reduce waste and increase outputs.

RESELLING QUALITY GARMENTS:

Another way to reduce waste and increase


outputs in fast fashion is to create options for
reselling. This can be done through the
development of an online platform, where you
can take a picture of a garment, then send it to
a store so they can provide a resell price. They
can then post it in the physical store if you’re
close to them, or their online store. Thus
reducing waste materials.

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