Computers In The Fashion Industry

Computers in the Fashion Industry By Lora Lee... The Fashion DreamFashion aspiring persons mostly talk of the dream or selling that dream Talk of how that dream will be produced is neve

Computers in

the Fashion

Industry

By Lora Lee

The Fashion Dream

Fashion aspiring persons mostly talk of the dream or selling that dream

Talk of how that dream will be produced is never mentioned.

The cut and the construction is not a famous topic when discussing the fashion dream

Production in the Fashion Industry BEFORE computers

• Usually by a team of workers

• Each with their own specific job

• Usually extremely time consuming

• Repetitive work involved

Computer debut into the fashion world

• Computers were introduced to the fashion industry before the 1980’s.

• They were extremely

rare

• After the debut,

people found computers to be vastly convenient for designers.

Computer Integrated Industry

• Computers are taking over the repetitive jobs

• Used in production to save time

• Storage, presentations, and sales supplies

• Used to study variations on a certain

design

• Ordering fabrics or materials

• Used for it’s precision

• Used to e-mail samples to different

departments

Fashion Software's in

Fashion

• Certain

software’s

may include

stencils, color

options,

textures, and

create images

on the screen.

• One of the most popular software’s is CAD,

computer aided design

Computer aided design

• Apparatus allows factory tailoring on

a body

• Body dimensions are measured and

inspected by a camera

• Camera converts the measurements

to a wire frame representation of the

body (exact dimensions)

• Measurement came be used to form

mannequins in that size

• Pattern sizing and color coordination

• With a simple clicks of a button, you

can change the pattern of the shirt,

color of the shorts, even accessories

on different skin tones

• Sketching is still frequently done by hand

• However, computers can help enhance the

sketch

• Transferring the sketch to a computer can help you place the design upon an actual body

• Consider variations that can make the design better

• Sketching can also be done with a computer’s interface with a sensor equipped pen and tablet.

Computer aided Production

• Development of textiles.

• In textile production, plants are monitored by computers

• As well as the weaving and dying departments.

• Linear programming is frequently used in the fashion industry

The Price for Computers in the

Fashion Industry

• The price can vary differently from

where it is purchased.

• Program machinery can be priced up

to 1 million francs equivalent to

$856,668.1 US dollars.

Books on Computers in the Fashion

Industry

 Computers in the

Fashion Industry by Patrick Taylor

 Producing fashion:

Commerce, Culture, and Consumers by Regina Lee Blaszczyk

 Computer-Aided Flat

Sketching for the Fashion Industry by Barbara Sultan

 Fashion Computing

Design techniques and CAD by Sandra Burke

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Manufacturing, 2008, Webmaster Radio FM a Mew