Sketch In The Fashion Industry

Designers need to communicate their ideas to others. But these ideas can be fluid, vague, provisional, and involve a mixture of degrees of detail and levels of abstraction(Eckert, McFadzean, & Martin, 2016).

Who is a fashion designer?

A fashion designer is seen as a creative individual who will acquire and utilize knowledge by using their intelligence to form concepts.

Fashion designers are used to the old ways thus sketching on paper.

Sketches are both a tool and a source of confusion for conveying provisionality and uncertainty. Freehand sketches are a fast and powerful medium for expressing design ideas; their inherent imprecision and ambiguity facilitates idea generation by allowing designers to see variations and re-interpret their own

Even though sketch brings the ideas of the designers the appearance of the sketch may have some roughness and might be misinterpreted. With this one could say sketch is ambiguous.

Fashion design software have become one of the sought after artefact in the fashion industry. Fashion industry has been in transition over the last 270 years.

The manufacturing has undersized artefact lifespan cycles, fabulous artefact variety, volatile and unpredictable demand, and long and fixed supply process (Sen, 2007).

According to the oxford dictionary the concept of design was used in 1588 for the first time. Design is a plan or scheme devised by a person for something that is to be realized.

The fashion design software came into existence in the 19th century. A software like CAD (computer –aided design or computer –aided drafting) came into existence in 1985. CAD is the use of computer system to aid in the creation, modification, analysis or optimization of a design(Narayan K & Duggal, n.d.).

There are many abbreviations associated with the CAD system such as

CADD – Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CAM – Computer Aided Manufacturing

CAD – Computer Aided

Apparel Innovator: For apparel manufacturing and retailing organizations who want to integrate product development process and other business processes.

Color Matters Pro is a windows- based fashion design software with a user defined design drawing area and pressure sensitive stylus pen

Even though the computer aided design is being use in the economy, it has some challenges.

According to the statistic of whole application to CAD by the Autodesk Company, at present, users who use 3D digital technology to design product have achieved 30% in the world, and 70% of user still use two-dimensional CAD to design product.

Though 3D digital technology has been applied in the world, in the domain garments there are still fall backs because the garment is different to the solid-state product in mechanical industry especially if the garment CAD wants to transform from two dimension to 3D(Lingrui, 2011).

As humans would like to grasp what is beneficial to them in terms of economic and