The Fashion Condition: Rethinking Fashion from Its Everyday Practices

Conceptualizing Fashion in Everyday Lives

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...

suGATALOG: Fashion Coordination System That Supports Users to Choose Everyday Fashion with Clothed Pictures

When deciding what to wear, we normally have to consider several things, such as color and combination of clothes, as well as situations that might change every day, including the weather, what to do, where to go, and whom to meet with. Trying on many possible combinations can be very tedious; thus, computer support would be helpful. Therefore, we propose suGATALOG, a fashion coordination syste...

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...

Rethinking Conventional Collaborative Filtering for Recommending Daily Fashion Outfits

A conventional collaborative €ltering approach using a standard utility matrix fails to capture the aspect of matching clothing items when recommending daily fashion out€ts. Moreover, it is challenged by the new user cold-start problem. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for guiding users in selecting daily fashion out€ts, by providing out€t recommendations from a system consisting of ...