Future of Fashion

You will be surprised by the amount of technology going into the fashion industry these days.

This trend will continue and you will hear a lot about (FashionTech) Fashion Technology

Future of fashion has Holographic Fashion Shows and (VR) Virtual Reality based entities, fabric, hair and other innovative material too

Let us see what is changing our Fashion Industry

3D Printing

3D Printing has been used for rapid prototyping, and now can be used for printing jewelry, eye wears and other garments.

In fashion and luxury -embroidery, laces and other soft material can be developed using innovative designs

3D Printing could revolutionize the fashion industry. 3D Printed clothes can respond to the environment, Clothes that can change their shape and design are possible to print.

But, before you scan it, print it and wear it -make sure you are not violating any copyright or trade mark

Innovations & New Materials

Other than 3D printing cloths there are various other new innovative material that fashion industry is working on. There are polymer threads five times thinner than human hair.

Textile industry in the U.S. is the 5th largest contributor to CO2 emissions in the country.

While 3D Printing reduces wastage and make fashion industry a bit more sustainable, there are materials such as Pinatex, the leather made of pineapple fiber. Fashionable fabric can be made out of milk, tea, and coffee beans

Researchers have also developed a coating for textiles that can heal itself, and neutralize harmful chemicals. Such coatings are thin, less than a micron, so they wouldn’t be noticed in everyday wear and increase the lifecycle of garments

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Big Data can be used to provide premium shopping experience. Companies are tracking trends on Pinterest and Instagram -looking at what is hot and what is not.

Personalized Shopping Experience with Virtual Fitting Room than allow customers to select specific garments and see how they would look wearing them

Push notifications can be sent directly to customers mobile phone when they are around the store. Any attractive time-sensitive offer will be able to pull the customer in the store

Future Fashion Technology will allow you to change the color and design of your garments via touch on your smart phone -for your ultimate personal fashion statement

Technology drive fabric will be able to color in response to light, water or temperature . Nanotechnology and nanomaterials will further create autonomous garment that can do many things in order to adapt to the world outside

Spray-clothing for creating fabric layer directly on your skin. Great looking fashion statement for the future.

Digital Technologies have transformed the front-end of fashion, but the industry’s less glossy back-end systems have remained relatively untouched since a long time — but now it’s changing

Wearable Fashion Technology

Digital clothes with built-in sensors broadcasting data to the cloud, later to be analyzed for medical or style purpose.

Talking shoes that connects to Google Maps and pairs to any smartphone. Get vibrations right onto your foot for the next turn. Different vibration for different turns

Fashion industry is taking a serious interest in the wearables market, rings that connects and alerts you for calls and messages, fancy bracelets that track health parameters and report variations

Luxury Hijabs

By 2050, there will be around 2.76 billion Muslims around the world, compared with 2.92 billion Christians. High-end fashion is already booming in the Middle East.

“Tommy Hilfiger, Oscar de la Renta, DKNY, H&M, Net-a-Porter and Monique Lhuillier have all put out hijab lines for Muslim women in the last few years,” Tech Insider reported

FashionTech Startups

There are many tech startups that are transforming the fashion industry

Big data can be used to improve size estimation and recommended size tools while shopping online. This can significantly reduce returned items.

Machine Learning can be used for product recommendations by adding style tags to various categories

Fashion: More Than Just Fashion

Fashion is more than just appearance, with so much of technology and fabric innovation -fashion can become more valuable in the coming future

Drug dispensing bras, bacteria-stained scarves and second-skin amoeba running shoes, and that will be awesome.