Better Lives Blog1 – How emerging technology create a sustainable future to our lives?
How emerging technology create a sustainable future to our lives? Although, technology and fashion are often seen as completely different fields before. However, these two fields have always intersected to betterment of both industries. As technology presses forward, the better lives lecture, Emerging Technology, mentioned that each successive generation of computing becomes more personal, for example, AI has to be the most important step to improve our lives. The lectures have influenced my thinking is that I realized the future of fashion is technological, sustainable, automatized and connected in each part of the chain, from the designer who make the clothes to end customers.
This question reminds me of two software (app) and one AI system example that I knew from the past which can prove that emerging technology can really create a sustainable future for people.
Fashion Trend Forecasting
In Japan, the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku are the most important place for the Asian fashion trend. What people are wearing in these area is very valuable data for AI, so the Toyko-based company, Fashion Pocket uses AI to analyze and assess fashion images in Japanese and global media and identify fashion trends information, such as colours, shapes and patterns. Fashion Pocket also provides this AI system to other large companies.
This AI system generates analysis reports that conclude fashion trends picked up from millions of images and data every day from all over the world. I believe that this AI system can help improve retail turnover rates to reduce inventory and waste.
3D Fashion Design Software
Fig 1. 3D fashion project (2018)
It was a 3D model wearing a stylish outfit which I designed with a software, CLO two years ago. CLO is a software that allows designers to create 3D looks. The software has great potential as it allows users to adjust their design without actually having to make one. The most important part of this software is that people can explore any possibilities at zero cost with the ability to design graphic, colors and patterns. Designer doesn’t need to do the physical fitting and pay the shipping costs by seeing all changes on their computer which means designer can complete the designs earlier and cost lesser than before.
Clothing Style Recommendation
Another AI system (app), Clothing Style Recommendation is increasingly used by companies to show their targeted product suggestions to their clients. Online clothing platform D Fashion uses AI system by mobile company DoCoMo to turn user images into sales promotion. The AI can not only recommend clothing for users, it also automatically analyze stores items, such as hats, pants, skirts and tops. It is very convenient that people are unnecessary go to the store to try the products, they can do it anywhere!
As I mentioned before, AI has developed the ability to estimate fashion trends and helping people to choose what they are suitable for clothing. Teacher in the Emerging Technology lecture said that data is the most important thing for AI. AI acquires these data from store cameras, customer history purchase records, images and videos by clients upload to the social media or Youtube which reflect our preferences. Different kinds of emerging technology have process ahead, as a fashion student need to research emerging technology helping me guess what’s going to come next and how to use it into fashion field. To think about how to combine new technology to fashion to improve human’s life and create a sustainable future.
Reference:
Almond, N. (2020) ‘Emerging Technologies in Fashion’ [Lecture]. Better Lives, London College of Fashion, 11 February
Lay, J. (2020) ‘Cultural Sustainability’ [Lecture]. Better Lives, London College of Fashion, 18 February
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Figure 1. Chun Pi, H (2018) 3D project-garment and space practice [Image]
2nd May 2020 @ 12:01 pm
The blog I chose to review was the first blog from Chun-pi HSIEH. The first thing I need to say is that the topic and title of her blog are very attractive to me. When the audience does not know what the content is, often, the title is the most eye-catching place. “How emerging technology creates a sustainable future to our lives? . We all know that sustainable development has always been the ultimate goal of human beings on earth, and it is also a hot topic in the fashion industry. Her choice of a fashion hot topic as the theme is undoubtedly the most beautiful part.
In her Blog, I saw the general direction of future fashion, and she actively cited numerous examples to show that emerging technologies can create the future. Similarly, I am a fan of emerging technologies, and in my first Blog post I wrote on the same topic, and ventured to assume the future direction of the fashion industry and came to a similar conclusion that emerging technologies will be an integral part of the future fashion industry. In her first part of “fashion trend prediction”, I saw the power of AI system and the role that AI will play in guiding and predicting fashion in the future. Of course, when it comes to fashion, I think AI has more advantages than disadvantages. But this reminds me that the dominance of artificial intelligence in the future is too strong to cause humans to be too passive, which is equivalent to humans creating a god, but unable to control the god. Individual privacy will be exposed to artificial intelligence, which can freely read the data transmitted by humans over the network. Nothing is certain about the future, but I have always had one point, and that is that human beings must remain creative. Creativity is the only thing artificial intelligence can’t learn. It’s our innate talent. In the future era of big rampant data, the computing function of the computer is much more potent than the human brain; creation is our only strength, is the only weapon to break the artificial intelligence defense line.
In retrospect, I fully agree with her core point that emerging technologies can indeed create a sustainable future. Because in the current era, we urgently need the development of artificial intelligence to promote the progress and development of the industry. Because they can bring us more convenient services and accurate data. These figures are based on real data from millions of images taken around the world to make predictions that don’t waste resources.
In conclusion, In her blog, I saw her thinking about the sustainable future, which is very worthy of everyone, especially In the fashion industry. This is social responsibility because there is only one earth; we need to use our creativity to change the world and make it better.