This lecture examines the transformation of fashion design practice from traditional craft-based methods to contemporary digital workflows, including 3D garment simulation and AI-assisted design tools. Tracing key shifts in industry practice and design education, it investigates how emerging technologies redefine the role of the designer — and what endures from the hand-based traditions that preceded them. The lecture serves as a conceptual framework for the accompanying workshop, in which participants reverse this trajectory: beginning from the digital image and returning to the body.
Gili Azran is a fashion designer and lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where she teaches digital fashion, 3D garment simulation, gaming fashion design, and computational styling. Her practice bridges traditional craft and digital tools — from pattern making and costume design to Browzwear, CLO3D, and AI-assisted design. She holds a BA from Bezalel and studied fashion in Barcelona, where she also exhibited and sold her work internationally. Alongside her academic work, she runs her own studio specializing in costume and fashion design for cultural productions and festivals.
- Website: https://giliazran.wixstudio.com/gili
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gili-azran-691572224/
