This designer is using AI to make clothing with zero fabric waste

Walk onto the cutting floor of almost any garment factory in the world and you’ll see rolls of fabric laid out in stacks. A technician arranges a pattern on the cloth to cut out the building blocks for the garment: sleeves, pockets, bodice. The problem is that the pieces never fit together perfectly. Around the curves of a sleeve, the notch of a collar, and the taper of a side seam, there are always gaps—slivers and crescents of fabric that must be cut around and swept away. That refuse is…