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R&D for efficient apparel design
A conventional overcoat cut layout: 81% fabric efficiency.
Overcoat bounding boxes, a foundational feature of marker making algorithms.
Bounding boxes can highlight zones of inefficiency, prompting designers to consider their aesthetic and functional worth.
Phoebe English pre-consumer bridal silk 'waste' featured in SSAW25. Design development with Vega Hertel.
Phoebe English SSAW25 Look 8. Design development with Vega Hertel.
Phoebe English SSAW25 Look 20. Design development with Vega Hertel.
3D woven redesign layout maintaining pattern integrity, reducing waste by 42% and increasing fibre efficiency to 98.5% through multilayer weaving. United Nations 2025 exhibition submission.
A piece cluster that is identified for further shape optimization.
Zero waste drawstring trousers designed in 2021 and redesigned for production in 2025.
Phoebe English X Toast capsule collection 2024. Design development with Ewa Burak. The collection was displayed as a pop-up at London’s Barbican as part of the Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art exhibition.
Phoebe English X Toast capsule collection 2024. Design development with Ewa Burak.
Phoebe English X Toast capsule collection 2024. Design development with Ewa Burak.
Sleeve layout for zero waste hexagon coat 2023, using repeating lengths and angles to maximize piece combinations.
Zero waste hexagon coat designed in 2023 at Cambridge School of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Drafting of zero waste buttondown shirt, 2023.
Projector pattern eliminates paper pattern waste, 2023.
Zero waste shirt layout made with sublimation waste fabric, 2022.
Layout of zero waste coat prototype for senior collection of Apparel Technology degree, MCTC 2020.
Number crunching from zero waste collection, 2020. The need for automation is clear, as well as the joy of discovery.
Zero waste coat, 2020, Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
Ragwort and madder naturally dyed silk, Phoebe English collection development SSAW24.
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