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Customising Digital Couture: Constrvct by Continuum Fashion - Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion and Style. For quite a few seasons now we have been charmed by the power of digitally printed garments showcased by hip designers during glamorous fashion weeks. Yet, though eye-catching, some of these designs can be extremely expensive, they may not be available in all sizes and, in some cases, their vibrantly trendy colours and hyperreal images are destined to be fashionable for just a few months. But, if you like digital prints and want avoid these pitfalls, try Constrvct, a system deviced by Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel, the bright minds behind Continuum Fashion. Fans of the technology and fashion connection may remember the Continuum duo from previous projects including the N12 - the first 3D-printed wearable bikini, made in solid nylon and assembled without any sewing - and the D.dress app that allows users to draw a dress, turn it into a 3D model and export a cutting pattern to make a real garment.

How did you come up with the idea for Constrvct? What kind of feedback did you get so far? Digital Humans Sàrl: 3D Fashion. Styku virtual fitting room body scan (video) Document details. 20 Must Have Tools for Fashion Designers. Success as a fashion designer is more than just great ideas and fabulous clothes. It is also about the process of creating; the inspiration for the idea, the drafting of the design, and the creation of the garments.

Sometimes this process can have little hiccups that make the bigger picture seem a bit discouraging. Whether you are designing clothes for your own personal wardrobe, or for the rest of us, these tools can help you to smoothly execute each step of the way so that the bigger picture only gets better and brighter. Digital fashion ltd. The world of digital technology: Virtual Mirror and Digital Signage. Patent US20070040033 - Digital mirror system with advanced imaging features and hands-free control - Google Patenten. This application claims priority to provisional application Ser.

Patent US20070040033 - Digital mirror system with advanced imaging features and hands-free control - Google Patenten

No. 60/737,877, filed Nov. 18, 2005, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth. Patent US20120095589 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D SHAPE MEASUREMENTS AND FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOM ... - Google Patenten. This application claims priority to the provisional application U.S. 61/393,434 filed on Oct. 15, 2010.

Patent US20120095589 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D SHAPE MEASUREMENTS AND FOR VIRTUAL FITTING ROOM ... - Google Patenten

The invention relates to measuring a three-dimensional shape of any object including human body and virtual fitting of a digitized clothing on a digitized body shape. Internet shopping has attain critical mass and represents significant and growing portion of the overall retail sales. In the area of clothing, on-line shopping, suffers from inability of current software shopping platforms to let customer see on-line, how the particular garment piece fits them.

There are several approaches to creating virtual fitting room on the Internet. 4DDynamics: Developer of 3d algorithms for the aquisition of 3d data. HS Group - Fashion Products - Retail - Virtual Mirror - Make the best use of your product data ― seamlessly, all the way to the point of sale. Here product data is used seamlessly from development all the way to the point of sale, additional information is gained about the customer’s size & fit and preferences and the association with the market is strengthened.

HS Group - Fashion Products - Retail - Virtual Mirror - Make the best use of your product data ― seamlessly, all the way to the point of sale.

3D fitting & on-demand production. Digital textile printing. 'Digital textile printing is described as any ink jet based method of printing colorants onto fabric.

Digital textile printing

Most notably, digital textile printing is referred to when identifying either printing smaller designs onto garments (t-shirts, dresses, promotional wear; abbreviated as DTG, which stands for Direct to Garment) and printing larger designs onto large format rolls of textile. The latter is a growing trend in visual communication, where advertisement and corporate branding is printed onto polyester media. Examples are: flags, banners, signs, retail graphics. Digital textile printing can be divided into: Direct to garmentVisual communicationInterior decorationFashion (the "Como" industry) Digital textile printing started in the late 1980s as a possible replacement for analog screen printing.

Within the digital textile printing for visual communication a division has to be made in: low-volume dye-sub printers (e.g. Production requirements[edit] Economics[edit] Digital Printing « O ECOTEXTILES. The idea of digital printing on textiles has been around for some time.

Digital Printing « O ECOTEXTILES

Carpet inkjet printing machines have beenused since the early 1970s. Digital ink jet printing of continuous rolls of textile fabrics was shown at ITMA in 1995. Again at ITMA in 2003, several industrial inkjet printers were introduced to the marketplace which made digital printing on textiles the new industry standard. Digital textile printing - Areas of expertise. Pioneers in digital printing SPGPrints invented digital textile printing 25 years ago and has since then helped to bring the technology to where it is today.

Digital textile printing - Areas of expertise

In cooperation with main inkjet printer and printing belt manufacturers from all over the world, we offer the best possible solutions to print on textiles with digital technology. Virtual fitting rooms changing the clothes shopping experience. Sandra Garcia, left, the station manager at the Me-Ality sizing machine… (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times ) At the Westfield Culver City mall, jeans shopper Stephanie Heredia stepped into a booth resembling an airport body scanner. In less than 20 seconds, she walked away with a printout that recommended a dozen denim styles to fit her hourglass-shaped frame.

Paper in hand, she headed to JCPenney to try on a pair of size 12 boot cut Levi's. The fit was perfect. Tukatech. Retail Fixture Innovation: Avatars and Mirrors « What's New. New digitally tuned-in retail fixtures may help department stores regain some of the fashion authority they have given up to specialty stores and mass merchants.

Retail Fixture Innovation: Avatars and Mirrors « What's New

The Virtual Personal stylist, developed by nG Connect Program, takes away some of the frustration of fitting rooms and messy makeup counters by enabling customers to “try on” apparel and make-up without physically putting anything on. Fashion avatarsThe new technology requires the fashion customer to create an avatar based on her specific measurements in a quick and easy in-store 3D scanning process. Introducing… What Size Am I. For many women, there are few things more frustrating than trying on clothes.

Introducing… What Size Am I

To put it in terms that my (mostly male) coder friends will understand: debugging CSS doesn’t come close to the blood-boiling irritation of trying to work out whether you are a size 8, a size 10, or both. Because, yes, you can be one size for tops and another for skirts, all in the same shop. It may surprise men reading this to learn that there is no agreement on what makes a size 10. Shops differ. A lot. Document details.