Sustaining Prototypes With 3-D Virtual Garments

It’s ironic that fashion, which has a perpetual fascination with transformation, finds itself grappling with its own reinvention. The need looks urgent: There’s a greater push for greener practices in the apparel industry, and some of those efforts go all the way down to the fundamentals. A wave of innovation has emerged in recent years that takes aim at revamping earlier stages of the design and manufacturing process. Modernized approaches take cues from advances in 3-D imaging, gaming, crowdsourcing — even aerospace technology — to make prototypes faster, more accurate and better targeted to current tastes. The newer crop of digital tools appears to have business benefits, too. They can mitigate errors and help brands manufacture only what they need. The result: Fewer overruns, returned merchandise and cost savings, and that may make the technologies some of the most intriguing, and therefore effective, weapons in the war on waste. Judging by projections from the United Nations, such tactics can’t come too soon. The U.N. believes that the world is heading toward a global temperature hike with disastrous consequences. If things don’t change, then the organization estimates that by 2040, the atmosphere will rise 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit beyond pre-Industrial levels. It doesn’t sound like much,

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