AlvaBlock : Harmonize Garment Fit from Style to Style.

15 years ago, when the late Dr. Kenneth Wang developed his ideas on how to improve fit in the product development cycle, he knew that the key was always in the hands of the pattern maker. When manufacturing was done in the US and Europe, teams of pattern makers, who understood their consumer market, worked directly with manufacturing to create clothes that would sell. Now, with the manufacturing being done almost exclusively offshore, pattern making is slowly becoming a dying art.

Brands these days rely on their manufacturing counterparts to consistently produce quality patterns. The sourcing strategy to move to low-cost and low-skill based manufacturing countries has elongated the product development cycle, and wasted millions of dollars in extra sample making, logistics, and time.

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