Project Manager: Christiane Luible

Contact : christiane.luible@hesge.ch

Team: Christiane Luible, Caecilia Charbonnier (Artanim), Sylvain Chagué (Artanim), Ulrike Froitzheim (Odlo), Gina Dunham (Odlo)

Duration : November 2015 – November 2016 (13 month)

Partners : Odlo / Ulrike Froitzheim, artanim Foundation / Caecilia Charbonnier

Funding : CTI, Odlo

Research outputs : The company Odlo will be able to work with their own fabrics with regards to virtual prototyping and be able to execute the fitting virtually on sports poses.

Valorization : Business: reduce real sample models, Scientific: scientific papers

Keywords: Fashion Design, 3D Simulation, Virtual Prototyping, Fabric Measurements, Sports Movements, Motion Tracking

The goal of this research project was to evaluate for the Swiss company Odlo the accuracy of a commercial 3D fabric simulation software. Only a millimeter precise clothing simulation allows a company to reduce and replace expensive real prototypes with virtual ones and thus, react faster with the market and save money. The scientific objective of this research project was to further develop previous research on the characterization of fabrics to obtain suitable input parameters for virtual garment simulations and in particular for the active sports sector.

The precise simulation of elastic fabrics used in active sportswear is still challenging. Their non-linear tensile behavior is mostly linear interpreted in commercial simulation systems and thus, imprecise. Moreover, suitable measurement devices to characterize fabrics are often missing. Companies are, however, today able to use virtual garment simulations as a tool for first visualizations of collections to judge first 2D patterns, styles, colors and logo placements. Virtual prototypes are also used for marketing purposes.