Black Swan Textiles

why is sourcing fabric so challenging? today, apparel designers have little exposure to the complexity of fabric manufacturing and most mills don’t understand what drives apparel product design. the way we design, source, and manufacture garments is disconnected and archaic. many companies will witness extinction and be rendered obsolete if they ignore the black swan event that is happening in the apparel industry. the digital standard is here…blackops the idea of a swan in a color other than white was considered absurd until a black swan was discovered in 1697. it demonstrated that new facts undermine certainty. a “black swan event” is defined as an occurrence in history that was unprecedented and unexpected at the time it occurred. however, after evaluating the surrounding context, domain experts can usually conclude, “it was bound to happen.” apparel digitalization is a black swan event that will be exploited by applying technology to change development processes across the entire