Fashion for a Cause, Collection Development, and Professional Presentation

The phenomenon of combining fashin with a health-related cause, also called health fashion, has taken many forms in the last two decades (Walker, 2010). As early as 1997 the American Heart Association began a campaign to raise awareness for heart health among women (Mosca, 2004), and in 2004 the AHA began the Go Red for Women campaign and chose the red dress as a symbol of the movement

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Placement and Testing of Electronically Conductive Textiles in a Medical Smart Garment

Researchers at a Midwestern University from each of the three specialty areas, Biomedical Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Apparel Design, joined together to research and develop a medical smart garment

Waterfall: A co-design challenge

Consumer co-design is a subject explored through the lens of mass-customization of apparel (Park, 2004, Ulrich, Anderson-Connell, & Wu, 2003), however this asymmetrical wedding gown was developed through individualized co-design. The individualized co-design process, as depicted in Figure 1, involved (1) defining the customer’s preferences, personality and aesthetic, (2) determining common elements between the customer and the designer’s aesthetic, (3) selecting appropriate materials and techniques for realizing the design.</p

Waterfall: A co-design challenge

Consumer co-design is a subject explored through the lens of mass-customization of apparel (Park, 2004, Ulrich, Anderson-Connell, & Wu, 2003), however this asymmetrical wedding gown was developed through individualized co-design. The individualized co-design process, as depicted in Figure 1, involved (1) defining the customer’s preferences, personality and aesthetic, (2) determining common elements between the customer and the designer’s aesthetic, (3) selecting appropriate materials and techniques for realizing the design

A STUDY OF INMATE ARGOT IN ROMANIAN PRISONS

Leksyka i struktura żargonu więźniów odzwierciedla ich osobowość, a także konflikty i napięcie jakie jest obecne w środowisku więżiennym. Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, że cechy charakterystyczne żargonu więźniów są w dużym stopniu wynikiem osadzenia w kontekście penitencjarnym. Zakres użycia żargonu różni się w zależności od restrykcyjności wprowadzonej w danym ośrodku dyscypliny penitencjarnej. Znajomość tego żargonu może potencjalnie ułatwić kontakt więźniów z władzani zakładów karnych, a nawet poprawić jakość zarządzania, wspomóc proces resocjalizacji więźniów i ich późniejszej integracji ze społeczeństwem. The lexis and structure of prison argot reflect the personalities of inmates who employthem, as well as the conflicts and tensions inherent in prison settings. It is shown in this article thatthe distinctiveness of prison argot is largely a product of the character of penal context. Its extent ofuse varies with the extent of penal discipline. Appreciation of this complex relationship mightfacilitate improved communication between prisoners and custodial authorities. In addition,knowledge of prison argot meanings has a potential to improve the management of prison-basedprograms and thus appears helpful in the complex process of prisoners' rehabilitation and socialreintegration

Technology and creativity : fashion design in the 21st century

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 28, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Dissertation advisor: Dr. Jana Hawley.Vita.Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.Creatively harnessing the zeitgeist, or spirit of the times, and translating its inspiration into unique, timely, and marketable fashions has been the key to survival of apparel companies since the early 20th century. Increased global competition makes the development of a financially successful fashion product more difficult than ever, however technology has significantly increased efficiency in many components of the supply chain (Kusterbeck, 2008). In the fashion business, it is the designer's role to translate cultural influences into new products (Lamb & Kallal, 1992). This research was developed to enhance the understanding of fashion design in the post-modern context: How has technology influenced the creative design process? Focusing on creativity in fashion design, this study evolved using a grounded theory (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000) approach to qualitative inquiry. Luxury-level fashion designers and industry executives in France and the United States were interviewed in depth regarding creativity and the influence of technology, specifically the Internet, on the fashion design process. Data analysis led to defining a typology for creativity and a typology for technology in fashion design in the global competitive environment of the 21st century. Through relating these typologies to various dimensions of the work of a fashion designer, the study contributed a new perspective to the social-cultural and ideological shifts that are occurring

Sustainable Fashion Development: Applying Transformational Design

Fashion is like the high-speed rotation of a tire, where styles with a specific set of aesthetic characteristics that are adopted by a group of people during a limited period of time change frequently (Ruppert-Stroescu & Hawley, 2014). Participating in the fashion system involves selective human behavior influenced psychological desires and social needs; people represent their self-identity, social order, self-emotion taste, hobbies and social habits by their clothing preferences (Wilk, 2002). Consumers in the United States change styles rapidly to keep up with fashion (Lang, Armstrong, & Brannon, 2013), and apparel overconsumption is depleting both renewable and non-renewable natural resources (Cao, Frey, Farr, & Gam, 2006). Engaging the sustainable design theoretical frameworks of C2C (McDonough & Braungart, 2002) and empathic design (Niinimäki & Koskinen, 2011) with transformational design, a method to create products that can be adapted by the user (Zhen Wang, Wang, Lian Yu, Sun, Liu, & Min Wei, 2014), the purpose of this research was to create The Moment (Figure 1), a product line that extends the use time of clothing by providing consumers more options for diverse styles within one garment to increase wearing frequency and ultimately reduce the frequency of new purchases and subsequent waste

ENERGY PLANTS ALTERNATIVE TO FUTURE BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

Replacing fossil fuels with alternative renewable energy sources is a very current issue worldwide. The development of energy plant (lingo-cellulosic) crops represents the promising solution, for the future production of biofuels in order to produce renewable energy and replace fossil fuels. For the implementation of energy crops were elaborated a series of technologies and technical equipment that respond to the requirements of these crops. The paper addresses these technologies, technical equipment and technologies for valorizing energy crops