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

Shelly Xu Designs uses AI to reengineer clothing patterns, cutting fabric waste to near zero—without asking factories or consumers to change a thing. 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.