Fashion AI glossary

This glossary defines the fashion production and fashion-AI terms used across Styls.ai, from tech pack and bill of materials to flat lay, ghost mannequin, virtual try-on and Auto QC.

Definitions

• Tech Pack: A tech pack is the technical blueprint a brand sends to a manufacturer. It bundles technical sketches, measurements and grading, bill of materials, trims, stitching and construction notes, labelling and quality standards so a garment can be produced exactly as designed.
• Bill of Materials (BOM): The itemised list of every fabric, trim, thread, label and packaging component required to produce a garment, including supplier, placement, consumption and colour references.
• Flat Lay: A product photograph taken from directly above with the garment laid flat. Flat lays are the most common input for AI catalogue generation because they show the full garment shape, print and colour without a wearer.
• Ghost Mannequin: An invisible-mannequin product image where the garment keeps its three-dimensional shape but the mannequin is edited out, showing inner collars and hems.
• On-Model Photography: Product imagery where a garment is worn by a human or AI-generated model, used to show fit, drape and styling context on e-commerce listings.
• Virtual Try-On: AI-generated imagery that places a real garment onto a chosen model so a brand can preview or publish on-model shots without a physical photoshoot.
• AI Fashion Model: A synthetic, photorealistic model generated by AI, controllable for demographics, body type, pose and expression, used in place of a booked model for catalogue and campaign imagery.
• Seamless Print: A repeating surface pattern engineered so its edges tile perfectly in every direction, allowing continuous printing across yardage without visible joins.
• Colourway: One of several colour combinations of the same style. Brands develop multiple colourways from a single design to widen an assortment without new patternmaking.
• Sketch-to-Render: The AI conversion of a hand or CAD sketch into a photorealistic garment visual, complete with fabric texture, drape and lighting.
• Moodboard: A curated collage of references — colour, silhouette, fabric, styling — that fixes the creative direction of a collection before design work begins.
• Auto QC: Automated quality control for generated imagery. Styls.ai Auto QC evaluates each output against 138+ automated QC checkpoints covering garment fidelity, print placement, scale, colour accuracy, anatomy and artefacts before human review.
• Auto Fix: The automated correction pass that repairs issues flagged by Auto QC — such as distorted prints, wrong garment scale or background inconsistencies — without regenerating the image from scratch.
• Brand Preset: A saved profile of a brand's visual rules — models, backgrounds, camera angles, crops, colour handling and output specifications — that the AI applies automatically to every new generation.
• MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity): The smallest number of units a manufacturer will produce for a given style, a key constraint when brands test new designs at small scale.
• SKU (Stock Keeping Unit): A unique identifier for each sellable variant of a product, typically a specific style in a specific colourway and size. Catalogue workloads are usually measured in SKUs.
• Grading: The process of scaling a base-size pattern up and down into a full size range while preserving fit and proportion.
• Agentic Design Workflow: A workflow where an AI agent interprets a designer's intent in natural language and chains multiple tools — generation, editing, print application, try-on, upscaling — autonomously, instead of the designer operating each tool manually.