TL;DR: Fashion's 18-month cycle: 6 months research + 3 months design + 3 months patterns + 3 months production + 3 months shipping = trends dead on arrival. In 2025's crisis (only 20% expect improvement), this is financial suicide. One brand did 22-day collection: sketches → fashionINSTA patterns → pre-orders → shipped. $50K sales before manufacturing anything. While everyone is talking about AI and sustainability, there's a much bigger problem hiding in plain sight. Most fashion brands are still operating on an 18-month development cycle that made perfect sense in 1990, but is absolutely devastating in 2025. Although hard to predict, even in the best of times, the fashion industry is in for a particularly tumultuous and uncertain 2025. A long-feared cyclical slowdown has arrived. Consumers, affected by the recent period of high inflation, are increasingly price sensitive. That's why fashionINSTA - an AI-powered sketch-to-pattern and pattern intelligence platform - compresses pattern...