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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Clothing/Fashion Design"”.
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… a proliferation of wardrobe studies exploring clothing accrued and worn by an individual over a lifetime. Stemming from multiple disciplines including fashion studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology and life-writing, these studies have revealed that wardrobes offer a vital resource for …
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Smart Bras: Developing an Experience-Centred Bra Wearables Design Process with and for Mature Women
… practice study developed an experience-centred design and development process for bras with “smart” capabilities, termed Bra Wearables (BW) — a subsection of smart bras with electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties. With the 2005 commercialisation and subsequent decline of Sports Bra …
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Fashion Innovation System Policy: Probing regional innovation systems to optimise digital manufacturing for fashion designers
… In mature industries, particularly the fashion sector, innovation resistance poses a significant challenge among industrial actors. This study investigates the adoption of apparel digital manufacturing (ADM), specifically utilising 3D design software, as a strategic response to the …
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The Practice of Mending Caring-through-use: A Strategy for Clothing Longevity
… Recognition that increasing the longevity of clothing could have the largest environmental impact in a garment’s life cycle (WRAP, 2012), has stimulated a recent surge in mending research by academics within fashion and the social sciences (Gwilt, 2014; Middleton, 2014; Harvey, 2015; McLaren …
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The Ever-Evolving Object: The Role of ‘Incentive Aesthetics’ In Fashion Design Education
… Incentive Aesthetics (IA) within the context of fashion design education, with a focus on sustainability and speculative design. Originally conceived to integrate technological and visual affordances into the design of luxury fashion artefacts, IA is repositioned latterly to inspire educational …
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Material INTO Practice, Practice ONTO Body and OUT TO Space; Exploration of sequins as a spatial concept through a new embellishment technique
… the history, materiality, and development of fashion embellishment, with a particular emphasis on sequins for the first time. It is an interdisciplinary PhD study using cultural studies, art histories, fashion practice and theory, and it expands the subject of embellishment to include …
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Transient Fashion: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Developing Casein-Based Materials Within A Regenerative Textile Economy
… production. This issue is acutely evident in fashion and textiles, where the phenomenon of ‘fast fashion’ has driven demand to unprecedented levels. Sustainable practices within the Fashion and Textile Industry (FTI) often focus on implementing a circular economy model to minimise waste by …
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From Hand Craft to Digital Technology: a practice-based material culture analysis of the historical and contemporary ancillary trades of the London élite fashion industry
The ancillary trades of the London based élite fashion industry are the focus of this practice-based research, which is founded in material culture studies. Hitherto these trades have not been the subject of any in depth scholarly work, and therefore this thesis seeks to make a contribution to …
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Contextualised Fashion Design Curriculum and Pedagogy in Ghana; Contributions to Decolonisation
… investigates the theoretical underpinnings of Fashion Design curricula and examines its application within the specific cultural contexts of Ghana, West Africa. Engaging with post-colonial educational frameworks, the study aims to develop a contextualised curriculum that reconciles local …
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Repositioning Queer Modernism: Men’s Fashion Photography and the Production of New Gay Subjectivities
The production of men’s fashion photography is given a conceptual and practical framework in this thesis, establishing it as a vehicle for queer political ideas. In order to do this, it establishes connections between the historical and cultural contexts, themes and techniques of modernist gay …
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Africa Fashion Week London 2011-2020: Exploring African Cultural Identities and the Transnational Practices of Nigerian Fashion
… cultural identities through the dress and design practices of Nigerian fashion designers at African Fashion Week London (AFWL) 2011-2020. AFWL was established in 2011 by Olori Aderonke Ademiluyi Ogunwusi, a Yoruba, Nigerian-British entrepreneur. AFWL’s emergence counteracts the mainstream …
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The Modern Woman's Business Suit - An Investigation into Incorporating Freedom of Movement in the Block-pattern Construction for Soft-tailored Mass-produced Womenswear
… industrial production process. When the Italian designer Giorgio Armani developed jackets in 1975 based on the traditional menswear silhouette but without the stiff plastron (interlining) of menswear tailoring he softened the design of formal attire for both men and women. This silhouette and …
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Fashion Design and Laundry Practices: Practice-Orientated Approaches to Design for Sustainability
… develops practice-orientated approaches to design for sustainability. It focuses on the relationship between garment design, laundry practices and sustainability, and responds to research that evidences domestic laundering as one of the most environmentally damaging stages in a garment’s …
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Transitionary Textiles: a craft-based journey of textile design practice towards new values and roles for a sustainable fashion industry
The current fashion textiles industry is based on an outdated, exploitative system that encourages fast consumption, generates huge amounts of textile waste, creates toxic impacts to ecosystems and causes significant social impacts to production workers. The move towards a more sustainable industry …
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Innovative visual effects in printed and dyed textiles for fashion: the combination of various printing techniques for coloration and relief effects
This creative study focuses on the design and production of innovative visual effects in fashion fabrics, in particular on textile printing and the use of certain printing techniques to impart a relief surface to the cloth. Close attention has been paid to fashion trends and forecasts in order to …
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Indigenous Arctic Fish Skin Heritage: Sustainability, Craft and Material Innovation
… depending on aquatic resources for food and clothing. Arctic Indigenous(3) Peoples(4) need formidable resourcefulness to thrive in inhospitable ecosystems; fish skins provide them physical and spiritual protection(5). During the last century, they resisted not only colonisation and repression …
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Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance
Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance entitles a PhD thesis, undertaken at the London College of Fashion, consisting of practice-based research in design and performance. The project interrogates the choreographic space of real-time interactive dance performance through …
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Costuming fictional working-class lives: Jimmy McGovern’s The Street (2006-2009, Granada Productions)
… costume practitioners, or the relationship of ‘fashion’ to screen clothing. Additionally, work on television drama's effects on audiences does not pinpoint screen clothing as a driver of wider social, cultural, or political implications. This research therefore adds to this emerging area of …
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Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed Textiles and Fashion
… research investigates body-oriented parametric design. It proposes the adaptation of ‘parametric thinking’ (parametric thinking 2.0) to offer new understandings of 3D printing (3DP) for fashion and textile innovations. The adjective parametric is a term used in this research to: 1) digitally …
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Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body
Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body is a critical appraisal submitted as part of my PhD by published work. This thesis brings together five pieces of research published between 2015 and 2022 investigating how innovative men’s fashion has …
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