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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"fashion studies"”.
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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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Entrepreneurship education in fashion study programs: The instructor's perspective
… and their intention to include EE into their fashion studies course(s). A survey was distributed to a purposive sample of instructors to assess the status of EE in fashion studies programs. Then, interviews were conducted to further expand on the survey results. This exploratory study found …
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Challenges Of Economic And Social Upgrading In The Semi-Peripheral Economies Of The Global Value Chains: The Case Of The Hungarian Garment Manufacturing Industry
… the work incorporates elements from cultural and fashion studies for an extensive understanding of the industry’s governing dynamics and the best cross-fertilization of disciplines possible. While sourcing and trade practices of fashion brands are often discussed within the management and …
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Sexuality, Identity and the Clothed Male Body
… a contribution to knowledge in the fields of fashion studies and cultural studies, in which the works are situated. The body of work consists of two monographs - Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men’s Dress in the Twentieth Century (Berg, 2000), and The Story of Men’s Underwear (Parkstone …
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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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How can material culture analysis of fashionable menswear augment biographical and museological interpretations? A critical analysis of three wardrobes of menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath
… menswear at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Fashion Museum, Bath. The thesis objectives propose and demonstrate a research framework combining methods from material culture, fashion studies, museology and life-writing fields. I focus on masculine clothing (including rarely preserved items …
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This thesis builds upon earlier feminist critiques of the infantilisation of women by considering the meaning of childlike femininities in the period spanning 1990 to 2015. In particular, it questions whether …
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Westernized 'easthetics': understanding surface, depth and individuality in contemporary modest wear: an ethnography on hijab wearers and designers in Britain
… of scholarship, from anthropology, history and fashion studies to psychology and design theory, the project looks into the creative individuations and taste (in)formation mechanisms of contemporary modest wear, with a particular stress on the Islamic headscarf. In concrete terms, the focus falls …
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Post-war Britain’s First Youth Subculture: The Bebop Scene in Soho, 1945–1950
… the boundaries of the following fields: music studies, race and ethnic studies, fashion studies, media studies, and subculture studies. In documenting and analysing the avant-garde aesthetic styles that constituted the scene – the music and sartorial style, as well as the cultural rituals of …
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The Women of Little Paris: Women's Fashion in Interwar Bucharest 1919-1939
… space, geographically and culturally. Women’s fashion and beauty in interwar middle-class Bucharest, offers a wide array of unexplored research questions which are addressed in the thesis. The timeframe begins with Greater Romania’s crystallization in 1919 and ends in 1939 with World War Two. …
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Contemporary indie and the construction of identity: discursive representations of indie, gendered subjectivities and the interconnections between indie music and popular fashion in the UK
… become increasingly interconnected into popular fashion – a development that has transformed indie from being a space solely for the construction of masculine identities, as it was in the 1980s, into a space for the construction of both masculine and feminine identities. These transformations …
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The rise of the stylist – London 1980-1985: etymology, social history and status
The fashion stylist, an occupation primarily based on that of the magazine fashion editor, achieved recognition as a distinct freelance role in Britain in the 1980s. The acknowledgment of styling coincided with the ascendancy of ‘style press’ publications and with a heightened awareness of the …
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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
… there has been 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 …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… thesis contributes to the fields of fashion curatorship and fashion studies through the development of a proposal for a siteresponsive exhibition entitled Fashion & Folly. Fashion & Folly revives the eighteenthcentury bibliographic practice of extra-illustration as a metaphor, method …
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Women and fashion in Australia's nineteenth century
… been crude and rough, devoid of any sartorial fashion element. Yet the naval officers would have been well dressed, albeit somewhat dusty, and the First, Second and Third Fleets carried numerous people who had worked in Britain in the appearance industries. But what of the women? A large number …
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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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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… to demonstrate my contribution to the field of fashion in cinema, and use the particular interdisciplinary scope of my work as a lens through which to reframe this field. As many have argued already, problems of fashion and costume in cinema have traditionally been overlooked and marginalised …
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(Re)Defining Modest Sportswear through the Hijabi Habitus: Intersections of Faith, Fashion, and Function in Muslim Women’s Sportswear Design
… a methodological and epistemic gap in modest fashion scholarship—particularly the absence of autoethnographic and designer-centered research on modest sportswear—I foreground lived experience and design practice to theorize how hijabi women negotiate modesty in motion and how inclusive …
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A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s–Present
A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s to the Present examines Ghanaians’ enduring attentiveness to fashion and proposes a critical rethinking of fashion photography by considering the genre through African aesthetics within a global context. …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… Americans who ‘know their history’—and Chicane Studies continue to be troubled by questions of assimilation, colonialism, anti-blackness, homophobia, and Indigenous appropriation. If we cannot even settle the question of identifiers (is it Chicane, Chicanx, Chicano, Chicana, Chican@, or …