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Design, technology, and company are three terms that must be understood in the Fashion industry. None of them can be left behind or isolated from the others in a changing industry, which is in full revolution. A sector that has strongly joined the digital transformation to offer better services, procedures, and products to a consumer who has also changed and has evolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fashion industry<\/a><\/strong>, in constant evolution, is currently experiencing its fourth industrial revolution and the boom in digital marketing and e-commerce. Proof of this is the data provided by the latest Fashion report on the Internet, prepared by the DKB Sector Observatory. At the end of 2019, it is expected that the sales of the sector in the network will grow by 36.5% and exceed 2.4 billion dollars in turnover, compared to 1,920 in 2017. Thus, fashion eCommerce has advanced positions multiplying by four the turnover in just five years, figures that reflect that online fashion is walking giant steps in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New technologies have also come to the sector to stay. And revolutionize it. A new scenario where innovation in design processes has meant that in recent years the industry demands new professionals capable of handling new technologies applied in fashion. These technologies include new tools adapted to production such as virtual design and pattern design or artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a><\/strong> or augmented reality (AR)<\/strong>, all of them with great potential to transform the distribution chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the case of Japanese software and hardware Shima Seiki, whose technology has landed in ESNE classrooms to train new professionals in the textile industry. It is a program that allows virtual simulation of fabric, saving production before its sale, and then applying it to a pattern applied in three dimensions on an avatar, which allows obtaining a virtual prototype before making it. Multinationals such as INDITEX or the Cortefiel Group have already incorporated this revolutionary technology into their daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fashion sector has joined the digital transformation with the strength to offer better services and products to consumers. Big data, virtual design or eCommerce, are implemented in a traditional sector that seeks new horizons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incorporation of this type of technology reduces the time of both collections and samples, as well as its subsequent production since it is not necessary to make a physical prototype to verify the correct realization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A panorama that requires educational programs focused on the training of professionals capable of leading this new digital era. This is the case of the Official Master’s Degree in Fashion: New Technologies and Digital Businesses, a postgraduate degree that aims to train experts in both the application of technology in fashion design and fashion management, communication and marketing in the current internet paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this sense, ESNE, together with a large group of companies and the main associations of the sector, wants to lead the transformation of the Fashion business in North America as a result of the growing innovation in the sector and the unstoppable impact of e-commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fashion sector has joined the digital transformation with the strength to offer better services and products to its customers. Big Data, wearables or the Internet of Things<\/a> are implemented in a traditional sector that seeks new goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The technological transformation is gradually spreading in all business sectors, which take advantage of the benefits of current innovation to apply it to their processes, services, and products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we will analyze the evolution that the fashion sector is experiencing thanks to technology. Its implementation is an important step for the renovation of a very traditional sector that, already in recent years, had laid the foundations for the current change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As is happening in other sectors, fashion is very skillfully accepting the potential offered by technology when organizing its stock and sending products from its stores. Traditional logistics centers, with a very high volume of garments to be able to meet the demand of customers, have become intelligent logistics centers with a much smaller amount of stock, with much more efficient facilities and with much lower energy expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This decrease of material in reserve has been possible thanks to the great knowledge on the part of companies and brands of their clients through the channelling of the information that they have of them. In this way, it is already possible to predict how much demand there will be each month or season, which garments will be the most requested and, consequently, adjust the stock of garments to the expected demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also in the logistics centers, human resources<\/a> have been modified and have incorporated engineers and data technicians or specialists in logistics technology and software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If in global logistic terms the most popular case is that of Amazon centres, in the case of the fashion sector one of the best known is that of the North American Inditex, specifically its main brand, Zara, whose logistics platforms can identify the garments one by one throughout the process (from storage to sale). The responsible technology is RFID tagging, which allows you to locate any garment much faster, streamlines inventories and make shipments much faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTechnological Trends in The Fashion Sector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
SMART TECHNOLOGY FOR STORAGE & SHIPPING<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
BIG DATA: INFORMATION AT THE SERVICE OF PERSONALIZATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n