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Author : Sandy Black
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Costume design
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Investigating the variety of ways in which textiles are used by fashion designers, this book explores the experimental and the beautiful in textile and fashion design.
Author : Sharon Sadako Takeda
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 9783791350622
Author : Marianne Aav
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300101836
This book - the first comprehensive study of Marimekko designs - presents more than one hundred examples of exuberant Marimekko fashions and home furnishings that gave the company a definitive presence on the world design stage.
Author : Susan Brown
Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Felt
ISBN : 9780910503891
Text by Susan Brown, Matilda McQuaid, Andrew Dent, Christine Martens.
Author : Miguel Angel Gardetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351277588
There is no doubt that the textile industry – the production of clothing, fabrics, thread, fibre and related products – plays a significant part in the global economy. It also frequently operates with disregard to its environmental and social impacts. The textile industry uses large quantities of water and outputs large quantities of waste. As for social aspects, many unskilled jobs have disappeared in regions that rely heavily on these industries. Another serious and still unresolved problem is the flexibility textile industry companies claim to need. Faced with fierce international competition, they are increasingly unable to offer job security. This is without even considering the informal-sector work proliferating both in developing and developed countries. Child labour persists within this sector despite growing pressure to halt it.Fashion demands continuous consumption. In seeking to own the latest trends consumers quickly come to regard their existing garments as inferior, if not useless. "Old" items become unwanted as quickly as new ones come into demand. This tendency towards disposability results in the increased use of resources and thus the accelerated accumulation of waste. It is obvious to many that current fashion industry practices are in direct competition with sustainability objectives; yet this is frequently overlooked as a pressing concern.It is, however, becoming apparent that there are social and ecological consequences to the current operation of the fashion industry: sustainability in the sector has been gaining attention in recent years from those who believe that it should be held accountable for the pressure it places on the individual, as well as its contribution to increases in consumption and waste disposal.This book takes a wide-screen approach to the topic, covering, among other issues: sustainability and business management in textile and fashion companies; value chain management; use of materials; sustainable production processes; fashion, needs and consumption; disposal; and innovation and design.The book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the global fashion business.
Author : DEBORAH E. YOUNG
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 150137317X
Author : Silvia Vacirca
Publisher : Mimesis International
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 886977421X
The behind-the-scene history of the fashion magazine Bellezza, the Italian Vogue founded in 1941, has never been submitted to scholarly attention. Its utopian function in defining a new culture of fashion and code of glamour contributed to the totalitarian project of building a 'new Italian woman'. The current volume fills this gap, using the case
Author : Kerstin Pinther
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 1350179531
With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. It contributes to the ongoing debates around the globalization of fashion and fashion theory by exploring fashion as a genuine urban phenomenon on the continent and among its diasporas. To date, “fashion” and “city” have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. This perspective is all the more distorted, given Africa's rich sartorial past. With a huge number of tailors ready to adapt and renew clothing, reshaping garments into contemporary styles, and many cities in Africa becoming hot-spots for a steadily growing and well-connected scene of fashion designers in the past 20 years, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and reconsideration of the fashionscapes of Africa. Leading scholars offer an updated empirical and theoretical foundation on which to base new and exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights.
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253111043
Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of anthropologists, historians, and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, these essays explore the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day. Readers interested in fashion history, material and expressive cultures, understandings of nation-state styles, and expressions of a distinctive African modernity will be engaged by this interdisciplinary and broadly appealing volume. Contributors are Heather Marie Akou, Jean Allman, A. Boatema Boateng, Judith Byfield, Laura Fair, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Margaret Jean Hay, Andrew M. Ivaska, Phyllis M. Martin, Marissa Moorman, Elisha P. Renne, and Victoria L. Rovine.
Author : Sandy Black
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781851775590
A hipster pastime, a high-fashion showpiece, a social activity, a simple hat to keep you warm, or a trendy bag to show off to friend ;knitting is an incredibly versatile craft, conjuring up memories of grandmothers gathering 'round the fire even as it has undergone a major revival in the world of high fashion.