An Innovative Platform for Designing and Rapid Virtual Prototyping of Garments: The Case of i-Mannequin

Virtual prototyping technology although already established in large fashion corporations and clothing manufacturers, is not yet widely adopted in SMEs with the lack of trust in evaluation of virtual fit being one of the main reasons. Artificial Intelligence and computer vision state-of-the-art algorithms have been leveraged to produce new tools in assisting the sample room of fashion clothing and its creative teams. Fashion creatives do not always have technical and manufacturing skills or garment construction knowledge. They are not the ones to evaluate fit or choose the right 2D pattern from an enormous digital database of a clothing manufacturer. Through the analysis of all these parameters, emerged the need for the creation of a new tool like the case of i-mannequin. This study presents not only the main core of this project which is to develop the first “Digital Pattern” with parametric structure model and geometric and semantic elements, but also the innovative platform’s system architecture offering solutions to various technological problems and in various scientific fields.