Integrating Informatics into Fashion Education: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

Abstract

The incorporation of informatics in fashion education is still changing the fashion world by combining newly developed technologies with conventional fashion design. The paper looks into the recent developments of informatics in the area of fashion education such as CAD and trend analysis and forecasting tools, fashion e-commerce, and virtual and augmented reality. They detail the issues that exist in the implementation of these technologies; the dynamism in technology, the roles of creativity and technical ability, and resources. It also outlines future prospects within the field of fashion education to pay more attention to closer cooperation with the industry, create new programs for education in fashion and focus on such issues as sustainability and the use of information technologies, including artificial intelligence. By discussing these aspects the paper offers some understanding on how fashion education can turn into and utilize the present technological change.