textile design, especially in fashion industry, focuses on changing the public taste and creating continual and variable aesthetics to excite consumers in respond to the economic efficiency of industries. fashion, especially fast fashion, has many bad influences on social behavior, ecological environment and economy of consumer societies, work opportunities in developing countries and work cond...

This paper presents a mathematical programming model for dynamic cell formation to minimize changeover-related costs (i.e., machine relocation costs and machine setup cost) and inter-cell material handling cost to cope with the volatile production environments in apparel manufacturing industry. The model is formulated through findings of a comprehensive literature review. Developed model is val...

The apparel supply chain is a dynamic industry made distinctive by demand uncertainty and the handling of very many Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) during one season, which make it impossible to forecast demand accurately. Hence, apparel brands have to continuously maintain reactivity to the changing trends in consumer fashion tastes through quickly creating new designs that are suitable for all cus...

This study analyses the visual construction of girls and notions surrounding young femininities articulated by 15 contemporary advertisements Nordic fast fashion companies, available on their public Facebook pages in Finland. A discourse analysis identifies some blatantly stereotypical a few complex constructions as heterosexual, caring, innocent, sexy posers, active self-presenters self-survey...

Os elementos estruturantes da atualidade, que não apenas ordenam relações econômicas e de produção, mas também sociais culturais, moldam a vida forma transitória fugaz como líquido, era nominada por Bauman “modernidade líquida”. Esse modelo, seguido boa parte do mundo ocidental, ancora-se no discurso econômico neoliberal, propõe redução papel Estado na economia e, efeito colateral, produz o con...