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The New Black is an AI fashion studio: it generates designs, on-model and try-on images, fashion videos and, through its AI tech pack tool, editable tech pack drafts with a size chart, grading, bill of materials and construction notes. Plans start at US$15 a month. For brand teams it is a good fit when visuals are the main need. If the hard part is getting specs right for the factory, compare it with a spec-first tool such as The F* Word.
The New Black covers much more than image generation. Here is what its site lists today.
| Area | What The New Black offers (vendor site, 8 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|
| Design | AI fashion design, sketch to design, fabric change, image to flat sketch |
| E-commerce visuals | Product to model, virtual try-on, model swap, ghost mannequin |
| Video | UGC videos, lookbook videos, product 360, fashion ads |
| Tech packs | AI tech pack: description, size chart and grading, bill of materials, construction notes; PDF export |
| Teams and integrations | Team projects, bulk generation; Shopify, social platforms, MCP for Claude and ChatGPT |
It also offers an AI agent, Mila, that can work in the studio, publish content and run a Shopify store on a schedule. Seats come with every plan, and the vendor says they are unlimited from the Business plan up.
Yes. The AI tech pack tool reads the garment from your design photos and writes a first draft: a description, a measurement table across your sizes with grading, a bill of materials with suppliers, quantities and prices, and construction and finishing notes. Every field is editable. Flat sketches can be drawn by the AI at 1 credit each and exported as SVG for Illustrator, and the full pack exports as a PDF.
The vendor is clear about what the draft is: "ready to be reviewed, not ready to be sent unread". That is the right expectation for any AI tech pack, ours included. The question for a brand team is how much checking it takes before a factory can quote.
| Plan | Price per month |
|---|---|
| Starter | US$15 |
| Pro | US$35 |
| Business | US$65 |
| Enterprise | US$195 |
Yearly plans come with two months free. AI steps use credits: 1 for a first tech pack draft, 1 per flat sketch, 2 for an AI review and 2 to import an existing PDF pack. New accounts get free credits to try a first draft. The New Black's FAQ says everything you generate is yours to sell, print, publish and register, on any plan. Sources: The New Black pricing, The New Black AI tech pack, checked 8 November 2026.
It fits well when a team needs a steady stream of visuals: concept designs, on-model images for product pages, try-on and short videos, all in one subscription, with tech pack drafts available for the styles that move forward.
It fits less well when the bottleneck is the spec itself: sample rounds lost to wrong measurements, missing trims or unclear construction. Then what matters is how the spec is checked before it reaches the factory, and who on the team owns that check.
| The New Black | The F* Word | |
|---|---|---|
| Main strength | Visual content: designs, AI models, try-on, video | The production spec: factory-ready tech pack |
| Tech pack | AI draft from design images, editable; PDF export | Tech pack with BOM, points of measure and construction notes, first draft in 8 to 10 minutes |
| Checks before handoff | Optional AI review (2 credits); vendor says review the draft before sending | Validation checks on specs, tolerances and BOM before handoff |
| Price to start | Starter US$15/mo | Free workspace; Pro US$299/mo |
| Best for | Brands that need lots of visuals plus quick tech pack drafts | Teams whose bottleneck is getting specs right for the factory |
The F* Word is not an image studio, and it is not a PLM. It takes a sketch, photo or brief, produces a factory-ready tech pack with BOM, points of measure and construction notes, and runs validation checks on specs, tolerances and the bill of materials before handoff. Many teams use an image tool for visuals and a spec tool for production. For more on how that split works, see AI fashion workflow software and AI fashion model generators.
Yes. The New Black has an AI tech pack tool that drafts a description, a measurement table across your sizes with grading, a bill of materials and construction notes from your design images, and exports the pack as a PDF. The vendor describes the draft as ready to be reviewed, not ready to be sent unread.
On its pricing page (checked 8 November 2026): Starter US$15, Pro US$35, Business US$65 and Enterprise US$195 a month, with two months free on yearly plans. AI steps use credits; a first tech pack draft costs 1 credit.
The New Black's FAQ says everything you generate is yours to sell, print, publish and register, on any plan.
If your work is mostly visuals for e-commerce and social, The New Black covers a lot in one subscription. If the priority is the spec that goes to the factory, The F* Word is built around that step: it produces a factory-ready tech pack in 8 to 10 minutes and runs validation checks on specs, tolerances and the bill of materials before handoff.
No. The F* Word is neither a PLM nor a 3D simulator. It turns a sketch, photo or brief into a factory-ready tech pack and checks it before it goes to the factory.
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