The Future Of Fashion

Valerie Briceño Ortega

The right here right now of Fashion in 10 years

Whatever your visión of how the future will be; Economics, Climate changesand technology will affect and give shape to fashion.
Technological advances in the textile industry, like new materials, integrating communications equipmentinto clothing, 3d printed fashion, laser etched clothes,use of recycled materials, among others, will change fashion as we know it today.
On the other hand,the Internet has revolutionized the way business is done in the field of fashion today. Thanks to social networking, tweeting, blogging and social media todayfashion is about inmediacy and this will be stronger in the future to the point that one could even think that fashion magazines as we know them today coulddisappear or become collectors ítems, the e magazines could become the next great thing. Also the fashion shows are evolving. The images from catwalk shows are now sentout minutes after a show finishes via Twitter so the public no longer has to wait for magazines, comments swirl around the internet on blogs, forums and fashionwebsites about the collections well in advance of the clothes hitting the shelves.
All of this implies significant change for the fashion system as a whole; whenshows happen, when clothes are sold, and how they reach the consumer. We are only at the beginning of the internet revolution in fashion and the streaming ofsome shows online has brought a bigger audience and also let less known designers being recognized which opens doors to new players to the business of fashion.