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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"fashion designers"”.
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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 training of fashion designers in Singapore : with special reference to the School of Fashion Studies, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
… thesis traces the development of the training of fashion designers in Singaporefrom early days to the present.While the training of fashion designers in the modern sense of the word did not beginin Singapore until the late nineteen-eighties, its origins must be traced back to theimportance …
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Digital Technology for Saudi Arabian Fashion Shows
Saudi fashion designers have encountered numerous challenges promoting their designs to the public in Saudi Arabia, especially women’s wear, due to religious and cultural regulations. The primary regulatory barrier is that women are not permitted to expose their bodies in the presence of men. …
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ZeroWD: Supporting Zero-Waste Garment Design with Linked Edits
… layout of the garment panels on fabric. Recently fashion designers have begun to explore different ways to design and layout garment panels in more efficient ways. An extreme example of this efficient fashion design process is zero waste fashion design, which aims to use all available fabric in …
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An analysis of cultural appropriation in fashion and popular media.
Fashion is an outlet for creative expression and a reflection of personal and cultural identity. Fashion designers increasingly use cultural artifacts as inspiration for clothing. Previous media studies looked at cultural appropriation and found its place in fashion through traditional media …
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Africa Fashion Week London 2011-2020: Exploring African Cultural Identities and the Transnational Practices of Nigerian Fashion
… 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 media stereotypes and …
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Designing a dynamic sustainable system: 7 strategies to empower fashion SMEs and start-ups
… believe design to be a revolutionary tool, designers work in many different contexts; I decided to focus this research on fashion designers. As fashion industry is known to be notoriously wasteful while promoting consumerism and being the second highest consumer of non-renewable resources in …
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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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Embedded systems for computational garment design
… an insufficient means of expression. Clothing designers want to create systems of clothing that react, collect information, and enrich our interactions with spaces and people; however, technical barriers inhibit designers interested in building computational garments. Designers need a tool that …
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Exploring Prototyping Tools for Interactive Fashion Design
… our bodies and with other people. In electronic fashion (eFashion) design, interactive garments on high fashion runways envision how people might use interactive technologies to enhance our clothing with new sensing and output capabilities. Researchers and fashion designers have since explored …
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Human-centered fashion
Nowadays, large fashion corporations slowly adopt human centered design (HCD) process to connect with end users. For example, Levi used this design process to find out what kind of feelings that a new line of jacket should elicit in humans. And at retail sales point, the handbag iconic brand Kate …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… of Oscar Wilde as well as in the output of high fashion designers and the critics and consumers who engaged with them, in order to ask how gay identities and affiliations are formed and expressed through things. Bringing recent critical interest in the subtleties of nineteenth-century "thing …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… of social and political content by the fashion industry in recent years. Such content raises questions about the relationship between notions of political resistance and market capitalism. Marxist theorists such as Frederic Jameson and David Harvey would perhaps view this phenomenon as a …
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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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LOST IN TRANSLATION: FINDING THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE IN SUSTAINABLE FASHION TO COPE WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSTACLES IN DESIGNER’S AND CONSUMERS’ ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING
… factors that influence ethical awareness among fashion designers and consumers, with a particular focus on the selection of sustainable textiles. By addressing challenges such as confusion, paralysis and distrust, the research seeks to identify strategies that promote ethical decision-making in …
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Institution-Based Resource: Concept and Cases
… of Couturier and Creator as IBR in the Luxury Fashion Industry, 2) Art Museums’ Consecration of Fashion Designers as Artists, and 3) The Royal Warrant as an IBR. The findings from our research support and highlight the importance of our IBR concept to firms’ strategy and competitive advantage …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… masculinity for the postwar era. The images in fashion magazines are material evidence of the active shaping of new national masculine norms of the 1950s and ’60s. These images exemplify the complicated racial, political, gendered, and cultural dimensions of German masculinity while also playing …
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Interior Decoration as Fine Art: Rachel Feinstein and <i>The Sorbet Room</i>, 2001.
… connection to Currin and her collaboration with fashion designers taints her reputation as a serious artist. Such an approach diminishes her identity as a female artist and silences her creative voice. She challenges the notion of contemporary feminine sculpture by creating personal yet relatable …
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A study of 3D CAD and implications for training and skills in the fashion industry
… CAD systems mightimpact on the designer and the fashion design process. Current descriptions of theindustry indicated that new strategies were necessary to survive globalisation,technological change and the unprecedented demand for fashion products; andemphasised the significance of fashion …
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Dervish Sound Dress; An Investigation of Wearable Technology Using Computer Music and Haptic Mechanisms for Live Performance
… thesis combines the areas of computer music, fashion design, digital art, smart clothing, biometrics, cultural traditions and performance. Dervish Sound Dress is a wearable piece of technology; a garment that is inspired by the sacred ‘turning’ experience of the Whirling Dervishes or the …
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