The fashion and textile industry is undergoing a seismic shift. In 2025 companies are navigating increasing external pressures: volatile demand, stricter regulations, tariff disruptions, rising expectations for transparency, and the critical urgency to reduce environmental impact. At the heart of this transformation lies one undeniable truth—digital transformation is no longer optional.

Enter Lectra: the industrial intelligence pioneer empowering fashion with Industry 4.0. Through its strategic solutions framework enhancing and connecting fashion processes in fashion core domains of expertise - Create, Manufacture and Market - Lectra offers an integrated response to today’s complex challenges. This is a strategic framework for value creation in the fashion industry, built on cloud collaboration, real-time data, traceability, and smart automation. Leveraging cloud computing, IoT, data and artificial intelligence, Lectra’s global value proposition, purpose-built for the textile ecosystem, enhances real-time collaboration, agility, and end-to-end traceability. From design to retail, it ensures smooth information flows across stakeholders and production stages.

Valia Fashion brings this vision to life. As an all-in-one, intelligent cloud-based solution, it connects the entire value chain—from order to manufacturing. In addition to providing real-time visibility into production performance, the solution also enables advanced simulations, accurate fabric consumption estimations, automated production allocations based on predefined parameters and integrates easily with ERP and PLM systems. By connecting equipment, teams, and systems across geographies, it supports agile, scalable, and sustainable operations.

Manufacturers benefit immediately: agility in mass customization, reduced waste and costs, total material traceability, faster time-to-market, and superior data insights.

As the fashion industry embraces its digital future, Lectra is leading the way. With its comprehensive offer for fashion and Valia Fashion for manufacturing, companies gain the resilience, visibility, and efficiency needed to thrive—sustainably and competitively.

The future of fashion is agile, traceable, and intelligent.