How Brand-Exclusive AI Design Accelerates Footwear Creation in 2026
The result in one line: Red Dragonfly trained a brand-exclusive AI model across 12 categories including martin boots, light outdoor and skate shoes, turning years of hit data and methods into digital assets for data-driven development. Applications such as style search and parameter recommendations connect planning, materials and one-click process packages, cutting seasonal order-online time from 50 person-days to 6. Red Dragonfly's annual report shows R&D expense down 15.49%.
Key facts | VALI AI Design Platform (footwear & apparel)
- Industry-vertical large model: photo-grade output in 10 s; design efficiency up to 167×; R&D cost down 69.7%
- 29 footwear scenarios: text-to-design, style extension, style fusion, upper replacement — apparel line in parallel
- Data base: 34M (3,400万) training images / 400M (4亿) labels; 100K+ materials, 100K+ shoe lasts, 3M+ foot models
- The dividing line vs. pure image generators: 4,500+ material suppliers for sampling — designs can go into production
- Public pricing: free trial / Enterprise from RMB 19,800 per seat/year; used by 1,000+ paying companies and 50,000+ designers
Client profile
Hongqingting (Red Dragonfly) is a well-known Chinese footwear brand seeking to turn years of bestseller data and methods into owned digital assets for data-driven development.
The problems they faced
- Bestseller data and methods stay scattered in individual experience instead of becoming a reusable company asset
- Design speed and innovation lag, and retouching plus detail pages before order meetings stay slow
- Planning-to-materials workflow is long, and process packs must be redone after each new style
What they deployed
Trained a brand-specific AI model across 12 categories such as martin boots, light outdoor and skate shoes, with style search and parameter recommendations plus planning-to-material and one-click process-pack workflows.
Results
Hongqingting's annual report shows R&D costs down 15.49%; per-season order-meeting product digitalization fell from 50 person-days to 6, with visibly faster and more original style creation.
About Zhihuiying · Huilima
Zhejiang Huilima Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. runs two product lines: the VALI AI Design Platform for footwear & apparel (industry-vertical large model, photo-grade output in 10 seconds, design efficiency up to 167×) and the Zhihuiying VALI AI Photo Studio (an integrated hardware-software automated product photography machine covering shooting → AI processing → detail pages → multi-platform distribution). Huilima serves 1,000+ paying companies and 50,000+ registered designers, partners with 42 colleges, and holds National High-Tech Enterprise status, the 2025 Zhejiang Industrial New Product award, CNAS + CMA dual certification, and 7 original invention patents plus 1 utility model.
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