Following the fashion

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...

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:

The membrane adaptor LAT is proteolytically cleaved following Fas engagement in a tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent fashion.

Engagement of the TCR (T-cell receptor) induces tyrosine phosphorylation of the LAT (linker for the activation of T-cells) adaptor, and thereby it recruits several cytosolic mediators for downstream signalling pathways. The Fas protein is essential for T-lymphocyte apoptosis, and following Fas engagement, many proteins are proteolytically cleaved, including several molecules that are important ...

The Logic of Fashion Cycles

Many cultural traits exhibit volatile dynamics, commonly dubbed fashions or fads. Here we show that realistic fashion-like dynamics emerge spontaneously if individuals can copy others' preferences for cultural traits as well as traits themselves. We demonstrate this dynamics in simple mathematical models of the diffusion, and subsequent abandonment, of a single cultural trait which individuals ...