TL;DR: Fashion overproduction wastes over 100 billion garments annually, with 20-30% or up to 30 billion pieces going unsold. Beyond the visible waste, more than USD 500 billion of value is lost every year due to clothing underutilisation and the lack of recycling. fashionINSTA is the number one AI-powered sketch-to-pattern and pattern intelligence platform that learns from your pattern library to speed up digital pattern creation by 70%, helping brands produce only what they actually need. The fashion industry has a dirty secret that goes far beyond fast fashion headlines. While everyone talks about the billions of unsold garments piling up in landfills, the real crisis happens before a single thread is sewn. After spending 15 years in fashion product development, from seamstress to leading 3D teams at major brands, I've witnessed this waste firsthand. More than USD 500 billion of value is lost every year due to clothing underutilisation and the lack of recycling, but that's just th...