Nicolas Laucella Abstract

Abstract

Background: The collaboration of the fashion industry and the digital industry is next stage in fashion technology and once it takes full effect it will forever change society. Some of those technologies are augmented/virtual reality shopping, smart clothing, etc.

Objective: The main goal of this study is to show how fashion technology and its services are going to deliver positive rises for the economy, job force, and future careers for college students.

Design and Method: The research method is based on the focus of current/future technology and blueprints of the fashion industry and how their collaboration is becoming a steppingstone in the new decade of 2020s. It is being broken down through brand new college courses based on fashion technology involving 3d printed clothing, digital changing rooms through your mobile shopping apps, major fashion companies like Vogue getting involved in trends and how it will benefit their goals, how COVID-19 anticipated the fashion industry and the rest of the world to do more, etc. All of the research is current and the oldest being only a couple of years old there is more research to come from this so the real question is: Will the collaboration of fashion and technology bring out what type of result? Will it bring the good, bad, or the ugly?

Results: The plans that the fashion industry has for their use of technology and what is going to change in these next few years is more beneficiary than anticipated. Through their goals on increasing jobs in the world as well as major points for the economy. There are even plans for making better for the environment and dropping down pollution rates.

Conclusions: Fashion technology is the future for the United States and the rest of the world for their focus on bettering the economy from the COVID-19 Pandemic. The fashion industry wants to change the game by leaving the "regular cotton" cloth and change to digital 3d printed fibers to create merchandise or even try out virtual reality outfits in the comfort of your own home. The list is endless for what is to come since we are in the very beginning of this new phase in the fashion industry.

Keywords: fashion, industry, COVID-19, technology, economy, virtual, reality.