No single platform, technology or organisation will create a new fashion system.

True change will require many things: new models, new behaviours, new relationships, new forms of infrastructure and new tools - developed by many different people and organisations.

At xyz.exchange, one of the things we are exploring is how the information and infrastructure surrounding a design could work differently. That experiment is tecpacx. tecpacx is being developed as a connected system for fashion product development — exploring how the information around a garment can remain connected as a design moves through technical development, sizing and fit, pattern, materials, construction and production.

We believe infrastructure of this kind could contribute to a fashion system that is more connected, transparent and accessible — and ultimately better able to support more democratic and sustainable ways of designing, making and producing.

But we don't want to develop that proposition in isolation. We want designers to help us test it.