Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Darryn King writes about arts and culture of all kinds. I fell in love with Proper Cloth at first sight. First sight of a corduroy ...

The global fashion industry ranks among the top environmental offenders, generating massive pollution and waste. Innovation is key to solving the problem — and one Danish fashion ...

A decade since its launch, Marvelous Designer, the widely used software for making, editing, and reusing 3d clothes, has reached a milestone: version 10 is now on release. Marvelous Designer 10 has ...

An Italian clothing startup unveiled a men’s and women’s line that can evade facial recognition technology by tricking the AI-powered algorithm into thinking those wearing the garments are animals.

Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students, a two-week intensive course in journalism. Students in the program report and photograph ...

When brands design and sample digitally, achieving a true-to-life look is the goal. However, for many garments, a realistic look comes down to what’s not visible: the interlinings. Interlinings, or ...

For too long, we have treated kente as ceremonial fabric instead of what it truly is, a sophisticated design language. A visual system. A coded textile architecture developed over centuries by master ...

For more than a decade, Alexa Stark has designed envelope-pushing clothing, pieced together from old garments and surplus fabric from textile mills, for shops and museums all over the world. Now, ...

Scandinavian retailer Carlings sold out of a digital clothing collection in a week. Digital tailors manipulated customer photos so it appeared that they were dressed in the apparel, which cost up to ...