“AI+3D” powered digital capabilities are rapidly reshaping the apparel industry. From precise trend insights to design, sampling, fabric development, and even collaborative marketing support, Style3D supports SOHO FASHION to connect every stage of the value chain into a fully digital workflow. By leveraging Style3D’s modeling and collaboration tools, SOHO FASHION has significantly strengthened customer loyalty and accelerated operational efficiency. For this long-established industry leader, AI and 3D are not simply new technologies, they are the engines behind a leap in productivity and industrial upgrading.SOHO FASHION, with more than four decades in the apparel business, has grown into one of the leading publicly listed companies in China’s textile and garment sector. In recent years, the company has pushed large-scale digitalization and AI adoption across R&D and production. From data asset accumulation and AI-driven pattern design to 3D modeling and collaborative ordering, traditional workflows are being transformed into a new model defined by speed, accuracy, and synchronization.
AI + 3D: Making Design Faster and Smarter
At the design stage, AI now plays an active role in both pattern generation and style refinement.Digital designer Zhang Li describes a typical process: when a client proposes a pattern direction and requests specific weaving techniques, the team uses AI to generate multiple options aligned with the client’s preferences. These designs are then applied to silhouettes that match the brand’s aesthetic, offering several layout solutions to the client for comparison and selection. The goal of such automation is not to replace designers, but to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the “first draft” and “multiple options” processes. By completing these time-consuming tasks upfront, designers can focus on refinement using 3D tools, achieving both speed and accuracy.Yang Yi, the Assistant Manager of the R&D Innovation Division, also explains that AI delivers two core benefits to clients: “speed” and “accuracy.” Internally, its greatest value lies in creating deeper alignment between suppliers and brands: designers’ ideas can now be presented more precisely and straightforward, reducing communication costs and improving the efficiency of decision-making.Yang informs that with the support of 3D modeling, SOHO FASHION experienced a significant increase in order volumes last year. This year, that figure is expected to nearly double. Today, most designers have embedded 3D techniques directly into their daily workflow. As Yang confesses, “Without 3D, our efficiency would drop dramatically.”
Turning Digitalization into Customer Loyalty
Sheng Hejin, a sales representative, shares a case study of a Canadian client whose production was previously 90% concentrated in Bangladesh, and had limited reliance on SOHO FASHION. After experiencing the SOHO FASHION’s digital design and service capabilities, the client quickly recognized two advantages: the significant reduction of development costs, and the faster and more responsive collaboration. SOHO FASHION not onlydelivers patterns, silhouettes, and layout proposals altogether online, but also supports clients with visual merchandising and retail presentation advice, becoming an attentive participant across both productions and sales functions.SOHO FASHION has so far moved from a marginal supplier to a core partner for this client. Customer loyalty has increased substantially, and the digital competence of SOHO FASHION makes it far harder to replace. As Sheng estimates, “After introducing 3D technology, customer loyalty has largely improved.”The logic behind SOHO FASHION’s practice is clear: by accumulating large-scale digital assets and embedding AI+3D into design and approval processes, fragmented communication becomes standardized, visualized, and measurable delivery. Clients directly experience faster, more accurate, and better-aligned service — a competitive advantage that improves customer loyalty and unlocks spaces of new orders.
A Powerful Digital Asset Library + A Foundation of Design Efficiency
Since collaborating with Style3D, SOHO FASHION has built an extensive internal digital library: 12,918 pieces of fabric and 3,959 3D silhouettes. These resources have become valuable digital assets stored within the company’s proprietary cloud platform, enabling structured management and rapid circulation of fabrics, patterns, and samples. Samples are no longer static materials. Instead, they are searchable, reusable, and collaborative production resources, allowing full lifecycle digital management from development to delivery.Just as Sha Tingting, the Deputy Manager of the R&D Innovation Division, notes that these assets span patterns, fabrics, and silhouettes, forming the foundation for both AI and 3D applications, rendering the value realization of digitalization across every workflow. Sha expresses that SOHO FASHION aims to extend digitalization beyond design into sampling and production, connecting the entire chain through a unified “digital thread” to unlock even greater efficiency.Amid the wave of digitalization within the apparel industry, SOHO FASHION offers a practical blueprint: business as the core, technology as the enabler. The goal is not simply adopting technology, but the means to communicate ideas faster and more accurately, and to convert that alignment into tangible commercial value.SOHO FASHION is a user of technological innovation, as well as an active participant in it. Through its diverse applications and thorough understanding of the business, SOHO FASHION continues to refine and upgrade techniques and workflows, thriving to create a smarter digitalized future environment with its partners. Style3D looks forward to building stronger connections with SOHO FASHION, further advancing the “AI + 3D ‘design–sampling–production’ chain”, setting the stage for SOHO FASHION’s next curve of growth in both scale and efficiency.
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