Top 10 Fashion Tech Use Cases
Today, technologies such as digital technology, artificial intelligence, spatial display, cloud computing power, machine vision, low-altitude drone swarms, 3D digitization, and flexible smart manufacturing are advancing at a rapid pace, continuously reshaping the entire value chain—from fashion and creative design to runway presentations, manufacturing efficiency, end-user service experiences, and personalized consumer customization—truly realizing a symbiotic relationship where technology empowers fashion and fashion embodies technology.
Based on criteria such as technological advancement, cutting-edge fashion trends, practical applicability, and replicability and scalability, ten benchmark fashion-tech application scenarios were selected from the innovative achievements of local science and technology startups in Shenzhen.
The scope encompasses intelligent inspection and adjudication, aerial displays, smart wearables, custom 3D printing, rapid prototyping, cloud-based collaborative rendering, and flexible scheduling in smart factories. These diverse sectors link together the entire industry chain—from design and production to display, service, and consumption—to build a multi-tiered, broad-spectrum, practical, and globally scalable ecosystem for the integration of fashion and technology.
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"AI Flaw Detection and Smart Cutting"
Flexible Cutting System for Leather in the Footwear Industry
Lirong Footwear (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Defects in genuine leather are distributed randomly, and the traditional method of manually marking defects by eye is inefficient. We have now introduced intelligent recognition equipment. As the material is conveyed, high-precision cameras automatically detect flaws in the leather, using red, blue, and green colors to distinguish defect levels. This generates electronic leather data, with each piece taking only 20–30 seconds to process. The system handles 500 to 600 pieces per day, achieving 3 to 4 times the efficiency of manual inspection. Once the hide data is stored in the database, staff use digital tools in conjunction with shoe pattern templates to intelligently layout the hides, avoiding defective areas and improving raw material utilization. Once the layout is complete, the QR code on each piece of leather is scanned to retrieve the corresponding data, and the leather is digitally cut using a laser cutter. Compared to the traditional manual die-cutting and cutting method, this process significantly reduces the difficulty and physical strain on operators while increasing efficiency by nearly 20 times.
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"Yunxuan Creative Arts"
Cloud-Based Distributed Rendering Design Platform
Masfield Fashion Group
The platform leverages cloud computing resources provided by Huawei Cloud, enabling enterprises to enjoy one-stop cloud-based digital content rendering and production anytime, anywhere. It allows for one-click submission of design and rendering tasks for apparel stores, as well as batch rendering, fully self-service operations, and supports petabyte-level storage to meet the demands of thousands of concurrent rendering tasks. Through the platform’s 24/7, fully managed operations and maintenance by Huawei Cloud, projects that previously took 3 hours can now be completed in just 1 hour—a 300% increase in efficiency— and the overall design cycle is shortened by 50%. At the same time, enterprises do not need dedicated IT personnel, eliminating operational labor costs and reducing labor expenses by 30%, thereby freeing up corporate human resources.
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"Intellectual Property Priority Ranking"
Optimization and Simulation Platform for Smart Factory Production Systems
Shenzhen Yingling Zhishang Apparel Technology Co., Ltd.
Using big data algorithms and AI, the platform accurately identifies the technical skills employees possess for specific tasks and quickly assigns tasks as needed, directly improving individual employee productivity. It shifts from the traditional method of task assignment—which relied on the personal experience of team leaders—to algorithm-driven task assignment, ultimately achieving intelligent and streamlined task allocation on production lines and consistent production rules. Work efficiency has increased by 15–20% compared to traditional manual scheduling; the time required for task assignment has been reduced from 40 minutes to 5 minutes; the training period for new employees has been shortened from one year to one month; and per-employee output has risen by 4%, significantly boosting the company’s total production capacity.
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"Electronic Accessories"
Huawei's All-Scenario Product Experience
Huawei Consumer Business Co., Ltd.
Based on the HarmonyOS distributed soft bus and the Wear Engine, we have created an integrated fashion suite comprising a "smartwatch + AI glasses + smart device." It enables seamless connectivity, real-time data flow, AI-powered outfit recommendations, health monitoring, and scenario-based integration, creating a Shenmi Twin Cities fashion-tech experience where “outfits are smart and every appearance is tech-driven,” showcasing the Shenzhen HarmonyOS ecosystem’s leading implementation capabilities in the fashion wearables sector.
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"Airspace Embroidery Field"
Shenmi Twin Cities: A Fashionable Skyline Panorama
Shenzhen DaMo DaZhi Control Technology Co., Ltd.
Centered on commercial-grade technology for automated fast charging via drone nests, and paired with a drone swarm performance system, this solution enables low-altitude, wide-area fashion shows with a single setup and unlimited flight duration. Through high-precision swarm control and dynamic path planning technologies, hundreds or even thousands of drones form dynamically changing fashion motifs, brand logos, and garment silhouettes in the night sky, extending the visual experience from the ground to the entire night sky. This creates a fashion presentation space that transcends time and space, achieving a perfect fusion of art and technology.
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"Smart-Printed Trends"
SmartPai 3D Printing Pioneers a New Paradigm in Personalized Customization
Shenzhen SmartPai Technology Co., Ltd.
The ELEGOO 3D printer offers a one-stop, personalized smart manufacturing solution for the fashion industry. It can rapidly print jewelry, fashion accessories, footwear prototypes, bag accessories, cultural and creative products, and trendy collectibles, accurately reproducing complex curved surfaces and ultra-fine texture details. Supporting multiple materials, these printers balance structural strength, premium texture, and wearability. By streamlining the entire process—from design and modeling to printing and finished products—they help designers efficiently bring their creative visions to life, enabling rapid small-batch customization and the development of exclusive items. This significantly boosts customization efficiency in the fashion industry, expands the boundaries of creative design, and establishes a new paradigm for personalized fashion customization.
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"Smart Services for the Whole City"
Robots Are Reshaping the Fashion and Cultural Tourism Service Ecosystem
Shenzhen Zhidong Future Technology Co., Ltd.
The company’s in-house VLA model delivers outstanding performance; its MINT-4B large model ranked among the top three globally in evaluations of general-purpose robotic large models released by industry giants such as NVIDIA and internationally recognized experts, demonstrating the company’s world-class capabilities in developing cutting-edge underlying algorithms. The company specializes in the R&D and commercialization of cost-effective, multi-scenario intelligent humanoid robots, having established an integrated full-chain system encompassing design, R&D, production, sales, and service. The products integrate AI multimodal interaction, intelligent navigation, environmental perception, and autonomous obstacle avoidance technologies to create comprehensive intelligent service solutions for the cultural tourism, commercial districts, exhibitions, and retail sectors. They provide standardized services such as guest reception and guidance, brand interaction, and cultural tourism commentary, replacing traditional manual labor with robotic digital services to help physical spaces achieve intelligent upgrades.
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"Digital and Intelligent Body Shape"
3D Digital Human Model: A Customized Fashion Technology Scenario
Shenzhen Xianku Intelligent Co., Ltd.
Focusing on the precision and personalization upgrades in the broader fashion industry, we build a full-chain solution for human body data collection, analysis, and application—centered on precise 3D body measurement capture and AI analysis—and leveraging millimeter-level 3D scanning, AI posture diagnosis, and personalized customization technologies. Targeting sectors such as footwear and apparel, health-conscious fashion, and customized consumption, the solution enables precise body measurements, posture assessment, intelligent size recommendations, and personalized product customization. It helps the fashion industry transition from standardization to data-driven, precision-oriented operations and enhanced customer experiences, creating a benchmark scenario where technology empowers fashion consumption and healthy living.
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"Smart Innovation, Smart Manufacturing"
Design Large Models Empower Fast-Response Manufacturing in the Fashion Industry
Wanqu AI Industrial Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Linglu Future 2.0 is an AI-powered creative and production collaboration platform designed for the broader fashion industry. With an AI Agent at its core, it integrates the entire process from design to production to marketing. The platform supports AI-driven inspiration generation, style design, automated generation of production materials, marketing content creation, and supply chain collaboration, helping enterprises achieve one-stop intelligent collaboration from “inspiration → design → production → marketing.” Based on a Web SaaS model, enterprises can quickly begin using the platform without the need for deployment, making design more efficient, production smarter, and operations more collaborative, thereby accelerating their digital and AI-driven transformation. Commercially, driven by “data-driven style testing + intelligent order routing,” the platform enables a “test-before-produce” approach and a zero-inventory rapid response model, which has already been implemented in industries such as apparel and jewelry.
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"Weaving Light in Two Cities"
Redesigning the Shenmi Fashion Visual Runway
Shenzhen Yuguang New Materials Co., Ltd.
With a bionic, light-transmitting, ultra-thin display film as its core underlying technology, this innovation breaks through the physical limitations of traditional large screens to achieve a fully transparent, dynamic visual display that appears to float in mid-air. It has been certified by Guinness World Records as the largest LED mesh screen. This technology utilizes a nanoscale bionic structure to achieve an ultra-high light transmittance of 95% and an ultra-slim profile of just 2 mm. It can be suspended in mid-air without the need for heavy steel structures, creating a borderless, immersive aerial visual space for opening ceremonies and major brand fashion shows. It can simultaneously showcase the fashion symbols of Shenzhen and Mianyang as well as brands’ creative visuals, achieving a deep fusion of technological light and shadow with Eastern and Western fashion aesthetics, and completely redefining the boundaries of visual expression in fashion presentations.
