Pedagogical issues in fashion theory Fashion or dress? Pedagogical issues in fashion theory

Fashion and Dress Culture

Global conference; Fashion – Exploring Critical Issues

This paper sets out to explore the changing face of fashion communication and its role in creating fashion ideas and promoting trends. The focus is on the generation that do not know life without the internet, looking particularly at the online material that they engage with and the influence this has on their style ideas. It draws on the theory put forward by Roland Barthes ‘The Fashion System...

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 Cycles in Economics

Keywords, JEL Codes THE RAISON D'ÊTRE FOR SCIENCE, AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN particular, is to understand and explain observable phenomena. Yet, in an article in the American Economic Review, Wolfgang Pesendorfer (1995) develops a model of the design cycle of fashion goods that shows little regard for data, observational experience, history, intuition, or semantic integrity. These cornerstones o...

Minicells, Back in Fashion.

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as a leading technique for three-dimensional visualization of large macromolecular complexes and their conformational changes in their native cellular environment. However, the resolution and potential applications of cryo-ET are fundamentally limited by specimen thickness, preventing high-resolution in situ visualization of macromolecular structur...