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Kaledo Collection by Lectra revolutionizes design
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The Kaledo Collection application by Lectra, for the design and creation of garments, revolutionizes the process of designing and creating collections. In a context of the constant renovation of collections, Kaledo allows companies to accelerate the process of launching new collections or product lines according to the latest trends and with consumer expectations and reactions at the point of sale.
In a competitive scene for fashion industries, the solution of Kaledo Collection by Lectra responds to the needs of fashion design departments and enables designers to create models and test the color and fabric combinations rapidly. Communication throughout the planning network is simpler and faster, and the realistic simulations allow all those involved in the decision making process to evaluate the creative concepts more readily, facilitating decision making. Meanwhile, technical information about the fabrics is integrated correctly from the outset, providing reliable data transfer to the textile manufacturers.
As additional advantages, the Kaledo Collection application, by covering all the stages of the creation of clothing designs, allows:
- Developing different collections very fast, relating the models with the associated fabrics.
- Structuring collections and sharing information in real time with development teams.
- Improving the decision making process, allowing designers to illustrate their technical specifications for each of their models and devote themselves fully to creation.
- Reacting quickly to the smallest changes.
- Saving time and reducing the risk of mistakes.
- Guaranteeing clear communication with the teams responsible for developing the product specifications.
Meanwhile, communication between the Kaledo application and the Lectra Fashion PLM system, makes it possible to work directly with the designers, since having access to all the information relating to a product or line of products avoids reentering with the consequent loss of time and possibility of mistakes. The program also includes the applications Kaledo Print, Kaledo Knit and Kaledo Weave, for printing the designs and collections, and for the creation of fabric designs by stitch or plain.
More creative freedom thanks to Kaledo
PMC Lingerie is a French company founded in the eighties in Lille. Specializing in lingerie and also men’s and children’s underwear, it is distributed under its own brand Filco, as well as other customer brands like Auchan, Casino, Monoprix, Cora, Galeries Lafayette and Kiabi.
PMC’s success is the result of a strategic decision which was taken some years ago based on product design and development which, jointly with putting in place an internal strategic plan which would assure its customers of a greater added value and differentiated product For this plan, PMC relied on Lectra and in december 2006 acquired the Kaledo Collection application. Philippe Cornillot, President of PMC Lingerie said: “We have been associated with Lectra from the beginning of our development, due to their solutions belonging to the plan.
Today we regard Lectra as an indispensable companion because it offers us new, simple, practical solutions, of superior quality, and the collaboration between our two companies is optimum”.
About a dozen designers work at PMC Lingerie’s design studio, attentive to market trends and, in intimate collaboration with the company’s product, they design numerous models and product lines offering companies better options. Philippe Cornillot points out: “It is essential for us to conserve the advantages of such creativity. That is why we perceived the advantages of the Kaledo Collection by Lectra solution immediately. Not only does it represent all the tools which are necessary to develop a collection, but it also makes it possible to reduce repetitive tasks in the process. This frees the design studio to focus its dedication purely on creativity”.
Philippe Meurillon, director of administration and finance of PML points out other advantages: “Fashion isn’t only design, it’s also an industrial process which must follow the market’s movements. It must always produce what has been sold, and never produce to sell what we have produced. Our customers trust in our specialization and in our manufacture of exclusive products and now we are able to sell them directly on paper.”
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