As a project "a digital fashion collection" believes in the importance of preserving and documenting fashion as cultural heritage. The preservation of garments is highly dependent on the prevention of textile deterioration, which severely limits accessibility. However, documenting garments through videos, images, text and 3D scans can't represent the dimensionality and only partially the dynamic component of garments. A digital fashion approach could enable documentation efforts to visualise garment data and thus aspects of fashion in an animatable, multi-layered objects. Such objects need to represent a variety of different factors that are communicated in the sewing patterns and instructions of the original garments. By simulating garment construction through 3D modelling, the influences and ability to implement these factors in a virtual environment have to be assessed to better integrate digital fashion into cultural heritage documentation. The project "a digital fashion collection" therefore carried out a workflow from 2D sewing patterns to 3D dynamic models, transforming patterns published by Show Studio into digital fashion objects via Marvelous Designer. The animations and simulations of the materiality of the fabrics were further carried out using Marvelous Designer and Blender. This website and its imagery show part of the results of the project. The 3D files and original sewing patterns are not included due to legal restrictions. The corresponding written project exploration can be requested via email through the contact link.