Islamic Fashion and Anti-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 Dress Culture

Fashion Coordinates Recommender System Using Photographs from Fashion Magazines

Fashion magazines contain a number of photographs of fashion models, and their clothing coordinates serve as useful references. In this paper, we propose a recommender system for clothing coordinates using full-body photographs from fashion magazines. The task is that, given a photograph of a fashion item (e.g. tops) as a query, to recommend a photograph of other fashion items (e.g. bottoms) th...

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, Fiction, Function: Mediating Wearable Design through Fashion Film

Fashion technology is an expanding field, yet the question of how technology can be considered fashionable remains unexplored. According to fashion theories, mediation plays a fundamental role in transforming clothing items into fashionable garments. In this study, we explored how fashion films, as one of the most important fashion media in the industry today, could make wearable design concept...