Fashion consumption practices of millennials women: between fast and slow fashion

Fashion Thinking: Fashion Practices and Sustainable Interaction Design

Broadly defined, “fashion” refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and belonging to a community. We don’t ordinarily think of fashion as a positive force for sustainable practices in the design of products and services. One imagines that fashion drives consumptio...

Fashion and passion: marketing sex to women

Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers. In the UK, the success of TV shows like Sex and the City and the ‘fashion ‘n’ passion’ of sex emporia like Ann Summers suggests that late twentieth century discourses which foregrounded female pleasure have crystallised in a...

Supply Chain Management in Fast Fashion

Consumer Behavior Characteristics in Fast Fashion

Fast Fashion Guided Clothing Image Retrieval: Delving Deeper into What Feature Makes Fashion

Clothing fashion represents human’s aesthetic appreciation towards their outfits and reflects the development status of society, humanitarian and economics. Modelling fashion via machine is extremely difficult due to the fact that fashion is too abstract to be efficiently described by machine. In this paper, we delve into two fashion related problems: what type of image feature best describes f...