by Abby Keul In 2023, a Serbian-Hungarian research confirmed publicly what we knew: design parameters are flexible. This key insight — that a garment's width and length can move within a tolerance range without changing how it looks — has been sitting underused in the pattern room for decades. The paper, Flexible Design of Garment Styles to Support the Minimal Waste Concept in the Fashion Industry  (Vilumsone-Nemes, Pešić & Csanák, 2023), tested four garment styles in real pr

Zero waste fashion design (ZWD) is often compared to the video game Tetris, where falling pieces are rotated and slotted by the player to...

by Abby Keul ElShishtawy, N., Sinha, P. and Bennell, J.A. (2021). A comparative review of zero-waste fashion design thinking and operational research on cutting and packing optimisation. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education , pp.1–13. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2021.1990416. According to the authors, and from what still appears to be the case now, this article is the first of its kind to survey the scene of academic literature and locat