Fashion Inspired by Architecture: The Interrelationship between Mashrabiya and Fashion World

Designing in the Context of Fashion – Designing the Fashion Context

Fashion is a collective cultural phenomenon generated by the individual but linked to actions of a very large number of garment designers aiming to create distinctive but similar clothes. This paper outlines the mental processes, behavioural strategies and working patterns through which fashion and knitwear designers actively construct the contexts – their visual environments as well as memorie...

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...

The Problem with Fashion

A continuing focus on subcellular processes could result in neglect of the framework through which these small processes are integrated. This focus could be particularly problematic in the cardiovascular system in which a patient’s clinical condition depends on the function of the whole system, specifically the pumping of blood and its distribution. These are currently less fashionable areas of...

The Perception of Fashion:

Fashion and Dress Culture