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A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE, which creates a variety of “ABLE’s” by engaging with different professions and industries, is starting sales of the “TYPE-IX Synflux Project,” a collaboration with the design laboratory Synflux.

Synflux is a design laboratory which innovates fashion design using cutting edge digital technologies. Synflux designed and operates Algorithmic Couture*, a new design system that utilizes geometry and algorithms to reduce textile waste, which has become a widely known issue in the clothing manufacturing process. By using this system, Synflux can realize rational and sustainable clothing design with minimal fabric waste and without diminishing the functionality, quality or design of the clothing.

The TYPE-IX Synflux project is a future-oriented collaboration that explores how clothing design could evolve in the AI era, by combining Synflux’s algorithms and A-POC’s existing technologies.

Using a jacket made from the original shape-memory material TYPE-U developed by A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE, the design team repeated a process of trial and error, based on a vast volume of simulations using Algorithmic Couture, to create a beautiful optimized pattern with no waste on a piece of cloth. The result is two models; STRATA and MONOLITH.

*Algorithmic Couture is a next generation design system developed by Synflux that makes sustainable fashion a reality. Algorithms are used to enable manufacturing that minimizes fabric waste, and design garments that fit the individual wearer. Keeping in mind the goal to move away from an industrial system fixed on mass production to a smarter coherent one, Synflux aspires to become a research platform that comes up with answers for environmental and social issues involving fashion.

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