...Yixuan Nan; Yi Liu; Jianping Shen; Yueting Chai Purpose This paper aims to study the material conscious information network (MCIN) to present new models of clothing products and persons and propose new crowd-designing patterns to reconstruct an improved supply–demand relationship in clothing...

... lays the theoretical foundation for the future networked system of supply–demand relationship and the novel E-commerce platform. Originality/value The authors believe that the MCIN, first proposed in this paper, is a transformational innovation which facilitates the infrastructure of the future...