SXD

Solution

SXD created an AI-driven design approach that turns leftover textiles into zero-waste fashion outputs, and Accenture helped bring the work forward through the H&M Foundation's Changemaker ecosystem. The core technology, SXD AI, analyzes available leftover or waste material and generates designs that make use of those constraints instead of treating them as scrap. That means the system does not simply optimize a traditional pattern workflow; it starts from the available material and produces new wearable-art concepts intended to avoid offcuts and reduce resource waste. By using prior material inputs to shape the next design, SXD turns circularity into a design parameter embedded in the AI process itself. The result is a practical AI workflow for fashion and textile reuse that lowers material consumption, helps reduce emissions and water use, and gives discarded material a structured path back into production rather than landfill.

Data flow

Leftover or wasted textile material is used as the design input for SXD AI, which generates zero-waste wearable designs based on the available material constraints. The resulting outputs can then be used for production without creating the same level of scrap as conventional design approaches.