The Future Of Fashion: Top Technology Trends Reshaping The Fashion Industry

The art of designing and applying aesthetics, natural beauty to cloths and accessories and clothing instructions is known as Fashion designing. Fashion designing is influenced by different trends that varied over time and culture. " A fashion designer designs for their customers, and creates clothing's, including suits, pants, dresses and skirts. They also creates accessories like handbags, shoes and jewelry. Designers can specialized in jewelry, clothing or accessory design, or they may or may not work in more than one of these fashion fields.

Fashion sector is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world. Fashion industry is always at the fore front of innovations. Fashion — from the invention of sewing machine to the e-commerce, fashion is like technology cyclic and forward looking. According to an estimate net worth of fashion industry at the end of decade is more than $3T.

In todays world, fashion industry with the help of technology is growing faster than ever. Robots are used to cut and sew fabric, Artificial intelligence algorithms predicts, trend styles VR mirrors in designing rooms, and array of many innovations that show technology, how it is personalizing, automating and also speeding up the fashion space.

Here, we dive into major trends reshaping how our accessories and cloths are designed, manufactured, distributed and then marketed.

5: Artificial Intelligence and Fashion

One of the technology is getting advanced day by day is the mobile technology. From smart wallets to the Instagram shopping, the ultimate technology tool is the mobile commerce. Mobile commerce has not only impacted our daily lives, but, is becoming the one of the fastest eCommerce growing sector around the globe. According to an estimate mobile commerce reached $285 billion by 2021, or the 45% of the United States e-Commerce market.
This is because of using smartphones, by the use of smartphones the online shopping is becoming easier. Many digital options are constantly innovating new technologies, digital wallets like Android Pay and Apple are now using facial recognition and the fingerprint sensors for the payment of retail purchases.
Social media are on the top of e-commerce growth, many featured brands on Instagram present their customers fully integrated commerce offering channels, that provides greater visibility and more sale opportunities.

Many fashion apps like Depop and Vinted, the one of the sustainable apps in the market. These apps are growing day by day and replacing many traditional shopping apps like Gumtree and eBay for selling 2nd hand fashion items. These sites revolutionized the online industry and demonstrating how mobile commerce is improving the fashion industry.

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4: 3D Printing

Many brands, both small and big, have been looking into the possibilities of 3D printing that it holds one demand production. 3D printer will create new avenues for the sustainability, creativity and for the customization of the product. From full glam to basic and accessories, many fashion brands are embracing their 3D collections.

3D printers take many hours to create its results, and it is less waste. Also, 3D printers provide less labor than other manufacturing types. In fact many on demand printing garments reduce about 35% fabric waste. By the use of 3D printing trend, the minimal waste provides valuable insight how one can reshape factories current state to the more eco friendly and sustainable social state.

3: Novel fabrics

Another sustainable option for designers is Novel fabrics. Novel fabrics are possibly the future of the fashion industry. The main idea behind the innovation of Novel fabric, is the fact that the eco leather is not a sustainable option. Many brands are combating this fact by the manufacturing of the lab grown leather, his leather is manufactured without harming animals. Many companies are innovating super strong spider silk.

The novel fabric is literally reshaping the fashion industry, the garments we wear. Also, the novel fabric popping up across the globe in boutiques. And there is no slowing down in the novel fabric, technological trends.

2: Mobile commerce

One of the technology getting advanced day by day is Mobile technology. From smart wallets to the Instagram shopping, the ultimate technology tool is the mobile commerce. Mobile commerce has not only impacted our  daily lives, but, is is becoming the one of the fastest eCommerce growing sector around the globe. According to an estimate mobile commerce reached $285 billion by 2021, or the 45% of the united states e-Commerce market.

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This is because of using smartphones, by the use of smartphones online shopping is becoming easier. Many digital options are constantly innovating new technologies, digital wallets like Android Pay and Apple are now using facial recognition and fingerprint sensors for the payment of retail purchases.  

Social media is on the top of e-commerce growth, many featured brands on Instagram present their customers fully integrated commerce offering channels, that provides greater visibility and more sale opportunities.

Many fashion apps like Depop and Vinted, the one of the sustainable apps in the market. these apps are growing day by day and replacing many traditional shopping apps like Gumtree and eBay for selling 2nd hand fashion items. These sites revolutionized online industry and demonstrating how mobile commerce is improving the fashion industry.

1: Sustainability

The traditional seasonal fashion format is always followed in the past. Fashion designers released fall winter and summer/spring collections, and many pre springs and pre fall/winter collections. We have seen many designers designing timeless pieces rather than seasonal collections. Seasonal collections are used by customers for a season while customers use these timeless sustainable pieces for years.
But, there is a question, Does this mean the end of seasonal clothing in fashion? In fast fashion industry, many designs moves to store shelves quickly from runaways. Fast fashion brands release at least 52 micro collection each year. To meet the customers demand many traditional brands had to release and keep up to fashion collections each year.
As excessive textile waste occurs due to the rapid production and lots of waste ends in landfills that is harmful for the environment and factory workers. Approximately 12.9M tons of clothing wastes is sent to landfill each year. The textile fashion industry is responsible for more than 10% of global CO2 emission, 25% of insecticides, 21% of industrial water waste around the world and 10% of pesticides used each year.
Many consumers and fashion brands, due to this environmental impact, turns towards the slow fashion and away from the costly and long manufacturing fashion. Today many fashion brands are opting sustainable production and more customers are choosing sustainable brands rather than fast fashion.
According to a research there is increase of 48% in shoppers looking for sustainable and ethical products.

Another sustainable option getting popular now is buying 2nd hand cloths from thrift and consignment stores. ThredUp, one f the largest online thrift store, predicts that 2nd hand clothing market will hit $52B by 2023. Many clothing sites have developed, like Re-Fashion, these sites develop the perfect cyclic structure.
A lot of new brands are lining up with the changing customers behavior. Use of sustainable cloths are one of the major trend in the success of fashion industry.

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