Digital Post-Fashion: Transformation of Design Paradigm and Metamorphoses of Identity Practices

In this digital age almost all cultural practices are experiencing changes; neither the fashion industry, nor the fashion itself as a form of social behaviour are exceptions. Fashion brands face the challenge of creating new discourses as fashion consumers are becoming more sophisticated and more individualistic at the same time, with their knowledge and imagination helping them to make conscious choices. This, in turn, affects fashion advertising and communication strategies: advertising campaigns use new discursive and narrative practices. A new emerging and developing design paradigm creates a ”post-fashion.” The phenomenon of post-fashion is associated with a deep focus on the consumers, and not so much on their needs, but on their fantasies and desires. Fashion becomes a social laboratory, helping us to decipher the mechanisms of identity building and more to understand more clearly current and future social changes. Remaining a creative industry, fashion enters the virtual space, setting new coordinates for the social imaginary of body, age and gender: that is, for all those identity parameters that are becoming increasingly vague today. This process exposes a new social imaginary, new imaginative structures and experiences. Post-fashion combines traditional elements (textiles, folk crafts and eco-production, as well as silhouette and form, and much more) with the new digital technologies in the creation and distribution of fashion products. Keywords: fashion, digital age, digitalization, new technologies, tradition, innovation, social imaginary, social imaginatio

The aspects of gender diversity in management boards

The article summarizes the factors of gender diversity in management boards affecting the work and development of organizations. A company analysis was conducted to determine the organization's readiness for gender diversity, current attitudes towards gender diversity in the workplace in various countries. Recommendations were provided to improve gender diversity in the workplace

The role of dialects in the German society

In this article we will make a research concerning the role of German dialects in the modern German society, track their origin and development. We will as well study the position of High German language and observe people’s attitude towards it. We will study the importance of the mother-tongue for the development of one’s personality. In the times of globalization English exerts a great influence on the standard German language. Is it a dangerous tendency? Are the numerous dialects influenced as well? Through our research we will give answers to these and other questions

Formation of deformation substructures in FCC crystals under the influence of point defect fluxes

The article deals with sub-structural transformations in FCC crystals under the influence of point defect fluxes. Different relationships between accumulation of point defects in crystal and substructure transformations, in particular during the process of fragmented dislocation structure formation have been received

Textual Bond ‘krome togo’ [moreover]: Contextual Modifications

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Structure and phase composition of the superalloy on the basis of Ni-Al-Cr alloyed by Re and La

Qualitative and quantitative studies of the structure, phase composition, morphology of phase of the high-rhenium alloys additionally doped with La were carried out by TEM and SEM methods. The alloy was obtained by directional solidification method. It was shown that introduction of Re and La to an alloy leads to formation of new phases: [beta] and [chi] , which bring serious irregularities in the structure of quasicuboids of [gamma]'-phase

Replicative study of susceptibility to childhood-onset schizophrenia in Kazakhs

This paper reports the results of replicative analysis of associations of 15 SNPs in a region of 14 genes previously identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with early-onset schizophrenia in Kazakhs. An association of early-onset schizophrenia with genetic markers in three genes (VRK2, KCNB2, and CPVL) was found. An association of rs2312147 in the VRK2 gene with schizophrenia was also previously reported in the Chinese population, so this marker may be considered as possibly race-specific. Two groups consisting of four and six genes demonstrating intergenic epistatic interactions were revealed by multifactor dimensionality reduction methods. The gene ontologies of 14 studied genes were reduced to variants of one molecular function (peptidase activity) and one biological process (positive regulation of biosynthesis processes). Bioinformatic analysis of the protein-protein interactions of products of the genes under study demonstrates that the products of six out of 14 genes may be involved in a single interrelated network, the major connecting link of which is represented by their ubiquitination by the UBC protein

Правосубъектность ребенка: актуализация возможностей и их ограничения

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