With the development of digital technology in the fashion industry in recent years, the application of 3D virtual simulation technology in fashion design education has become an important research direction. As an important part of fashion design education, the application of 3D virtual simulation technology in garment construction has attracted extensive attention from researchers. Taking the research literature on "the application of 3D virtual simulation technology in garment construction education" as the research object, this paper uses the CiteSpace bibliometric visualization tool to review and analyze the research situations of domestic and foreign scholars published between 2010 and 2025. Based on the research theme, the keyword clustering, and the temporal evolution, the study explores the main research hotspots and development trends of the research. The results show that the research on the application of 3D virtual simulation technology in the education of fashion design has gradually changed from focusing on the tool level to reconstructing the teaching paradigm. For the Garment Construction, the current research hotspots mainly focus on the following four aspects: (1) the digital modeling and process reconstruction of garment structure; (2) the pedagogical application of virtual simulation in clothing structure teaching; (3) the innovation of curriculum system and talent cultivation mode; (4) cross-disciplinary integration and creative design. The research trend of the application of 3D virtual simulation technology in Garment Construction is expected to develop in the following directions: (1) Educational Mapping of Intelligent Manufacturing and Digital–Intelligent Industry Standards (2) Construction of Learning Paradigm of Digital Garment Holographic Structure Design (3) Dual-Competency Cultivation of Skills and Value Orientation. Overall, the results of this paper explore the development trend of garment construction towards the intelligent, cognitive, and value orientation, and provide a reference for the digital and intelligent development of fashion education.
Cao Yupei (Wed,) studied this question.