CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 January 2009
Product News
OptiTex and C-DESIGN Offer Fashion Customers a Broader Scope of Software Solutions
OptiTex creates yet another powerful relationship with C-DESIGN®, a Paris-based software company delivering solutions for fashion design and technical packs. The strategic cooperation between OptiTex and C-DESIGN® allows distributors worldwide to offer both lines of software for the fashion and textile industry.
"Our new alliances with companies such as C-DESIGN®, further validates the unique advantages of our software," states Ran Machtinger, President and CEO of OptiTex, Ltd. “The new cooperation with C-DESIGN® is a great step into the European market for OptiTex. Both companies are well established in the fashion world and we are certain that by combining marketing efforts' both designers and manufacturers will benefit."
OptiTex’s CAD/CAM software is used in countries from Argentina to Vietnam. Its creativity-enhancing package provides a fully customizable onscreen environment to facilitate the creative process by using either 2D or 3D models that can be adjusted for a wide variety of body types. Designers are able to see how different fabrics will move before the first piece of fabric is cut.
C-DESIGN® delivers software solutions that cover all the process of creation from Design, Technical Packages to Visual Merchandising and Collection Plan.
Built specifically for the fashion industry, C-DESIGN Fashion® allows designers and graphic designers to create their collections thanks the best design tools. With C-DESIGN Fashion®, pattern makers and product managers create the specification sheets for each product of the collection and merchandisers have also access to tools to create window displays ad merchandise presentations. C-DESIGN Fashion® offers more than 18,000 existing designs for women, men and children including lingerie and swimwear. C-DESIGN Fashion® is a solution that enables customers to bring their collections to market faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.
“C-DESIGN® has enabled designers such as ZARA, PIMKIE and OKAIDI to create high-fashion, ready-to-wear collections in record time. Cooperating with OptiTex is a promising move to insure our clients achieve top solutions for their needs and also to offer the most innovative and complete solution to the textile industry, states Patrick Abbou, CEO of C-DESIGN®. "OptiTex delivers a time and cost effective solution for designers such as Hugo Boss, Zorana Kozomara, and Orient Craft, - so it is the natural step for us to combine the expertise of both companies on behalf of our customers.”
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