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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Fashion History"”.
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To Dye For: From Seed to Storage An Examination of Three Purple Garments
… offering understanding into Canadian social history. Taken together, these three garments provide insight into the fashion history and international and Canadian textile manufacture.
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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
… Stemming from multiple disciplines including fashion studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology and life-writing, these studies have revealed that wardrobes offer a vital resource for fashion history. This is something yet to be recognised in the UK’s national collection of fashion at the …
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Of Her Substance: Dress and Fecundity in Renaissance Painting
… costume books to examine how early modern fashion dictated the shape and scope of women’s bodies. It intertwines feminism and gender studies, fashion history and theory, art history, and book history.
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A minimal aesthetic: the relationships between fashion and art in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day
… a minimal aesthetic evident in a strand of fashion emerging in New York and Paris from 1964 onwards. It examines the way in which a minimal aesthetic has been applied to the practice of fashion design and retail architecture, specifically in a high-fashion context. The research establishes …
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An investigation into the cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery (London 1980-2008)
… pop memorabilia, mass market and avant-garde fashion. In addition, the thesis examines the narratives and meanings that jewellery is imbued with by individuals following bereavement or illness. It addresses questions of how, or whether, items of jewellery differ from other forms of material …
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The Bakhtinian Grotesque in fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century
… thesis constitutes a study of the grotesque in fashion design at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories, it investigates the reasons behind the proliferation of grotesque imagery within fashion of the period. In 'Rabelais and his World', Bakhtin traces a …
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Representations of soldiering: British army uniform and the male body during the First World War
… discrete disciplines, in particular, military history, social history and cultural studies. This exploration of the significance of military uniform, an object experienced by a wide range of social groups, contributes to current debates about British popular culture during the First World War.
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'The emotional wardrobe': a fashion perspective on the integration of technology and clothing
Since the Industrial Revolution, fashion and technology have been linked through the textile and manufacturing industries, a relationship that has propelled technical innovation and aesthetic and social change. Today a new alliance is emerging through the integration of electronic technology and …
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Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion design and communication: an analysis from the perspective of the conceptual fashion design practitioner
… design context that explore the intersection of fashion, fine art and performance methodology and practice. The project exposes and documents the emergence and development of conceptual and experimental fashion and interdisciplinary practice at the edges of the fashion discipline. The research …
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Towards a conceptual model for the apparel industry in Thailand focused on domestic fashion origination
… relating to the future prospects of the Thai fashion industry, which has undergone recent instability in the context of the global fashion system. They presuppose a reorientation and/or development of the domestic economy and culture of consumption of Thailand to favour innovation, originality …
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Cosmetic research study: Bridging material science with social inquiry
This PhD thesis advances an interdisciplinary framework for cosmetic research by bridging materials science methodologies for hair investigation with social scientific inquiry into lived experience, identity, and wellbeing. While human hair has been extensively investigated as a keratin-based …
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Navigating (un)sustainability: (non)consumption of second-hand fashion across countries and generations
… on sustainability, there is no evidence that the fashion sector is in a meaningful phase of sustainable transformation, underscoring the critical need to navigate the (un)sustainability paradox of the fashion system and advance knowledge that supports sustainability transitions. Within this …
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What matters in Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation in healthcare? Towards a practice framework for enhancing participation and collaboration.
Facilitation is an established profession that holds its origins in systemic and rapid organisation change and technological advancement occurring since the 1980s. It is a practice that accompanies strategic planning, performance management and public consultation initiatives and is used in …
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Respectable: Fashion Curatorial Methodologies Explored Through an Exhibition on Black American Women’s Respectability Discourse, 1865-1929
… for interpreting marginalised peoples’ historic fashion objects in ways that amplify their experiences and perspectives. Based on the author’s experience as a fashion curator and research background, Black American and diasporic fashion culture serves as a case study. The thesis consists of a …
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The Role of Dress in the Embodiment and Articulation of Chinese Diaspora Identity in the UK
… and research into the contemporary Chinese fashion industry has grown alongside China’s increased importance across global fashion markets. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of what Chinese-style dress means to, and how it is used by, people of Chinese heritage living in the …
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An Oral History Investigation into Fashion Practices in British Motorcycle Youth Culture in the Period 1945 to 1966
… events, existing in the latter alongside fashions and uniforms from the 1940s wartime period. The transformation of mid-20th century subcultural dress into benign luxury commodities in revival communities in the early 21st century is documented, as garments simultaneously lost both the …
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Pluriversal Fashions: Towards an Anti-Racist Fashion Design Pedagogy
… thesis explores ways of devising an anti-racist fashion design pedagogy. The research comprises a two-stage investigation: Part 1, a scoping study of undergraduate fashion design education in the UK and a case study analysing how racialised and gendered differences are currently represented in …
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Fashion in an Age of Transindividual Disruption: Feeling the fashion milieu through fashion media and mobile phone technology
… interrelationship between mobile technology, fashion media consumption, and user affect. The research originates from observations at the London College of Fashion in 2013, where students' profound digital immersion appeared to compromise their engagement with physical learning environments. …
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How to wear utopia: A dress manual for a convivial future
… The investigation draws upon the theory and history of utopian dress outlined above, focusing on three art and design movements: Russian Constructivism, Neoconcretism in Brazil and Radical Italian Design of the 1960s and 1970s. The study also examines workwear, historically regarded as the …
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Curatorial Interruption: Critical analysis of sources of decision-making bias in dress/fashion curators and examination of the impact of curatorial bias on wearer/object biography in worn clothing acquired by institutional collections in the United Kingdom
… identifies an under-explored area in dress and fashion curatorship: how curatorial bias impacts the interpretation of wearer and object biography. This thesis responds to the growing focus on object biography and underrepresented histories in the discipline through examination of the experts …
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