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A New Perspective on the Textile and Apparel Industry in the Digital Transformation Era by Waleed Hassan Akhtar; Chihiro Watanabe; Yuji Tou; Pekka Neittaanmäki is a Materials Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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The textile and apparel (fashion) industry has been influenced by developments in societal socio-cultural and economic structures. Due to a change in people’s preferences from economic functionality to supra-functionality beyond economic value, the fashion industry is at the forefront of digitalization. The growing digitalization in the fashion industry corresponds to digital fashion, which can satisfy the rapid shift in consumers’ preferences. This paper explores the evolving con-cept of innovations in digital fashion in the textile and apparel industry. Specifically, it centers on the evaluation of Amazon’s digital fashion initiatives, which have made the platform the United States’ top fashion retailer. An analysis of the business model of Amazon’s digital fashion business showed that with the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) powered by advanced Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon has introduced novel digital solutions for the fashion industry, such as advanced digital fashions (ADFs), on-demand manufacturing, neo-luxury, and, ultimately, cloud-based digital fashion platforms, that is, a supra-omnichannel, where all stakeholders are integrated, and their activities are
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- Author
- Waleed Hassan Akhtar; Chihiro Watanabe; Yuji Tou; Pekka Neittaanmäki
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Materials Science (Physical Sciences)