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Fostering Fashion Ecosystems: A Quadruple Helix-Based Model for European Sustainable Innovation
Industrial sectors’ innovative and sustainable development relies not only on solid government, society, academia, and industry but also on how they interact to set and implement strategic goals. In the fashion industry context, the new sociocultural scenario is increasingly driven by pressures from stakeholders to limit the impacts of industrial practices and to move toward new open ecosystems to create and maintain sustainable innovation. This article explores how such innovation can be enabled by design-driven actions in the context of the quadruple helix. Such a model aims to revitalize the areas of technological innovation and gradually advance the construction of the infrastructure needed for sustainable fashion growth, combining and integrating different knowledge. An initial literature review, complemented by case studies analysis, identifies the European fashion industry dynamics of innovation and the roles of industry, government, university, and society. In particular, the government is transforming from a mere controller to a facilitator of innovation synergies. Society relies on citizens revising their consumption habits by shifting toward a performative economy. Industry understands the need for collaboration and adopts new closed-loop supply chains to create and maintain its sustainable development. Universities enable new open system flows to make innovations concerning knowledge, technologies, and systems thrive, from technology transfer to knowledge co-creation. Based on the analysis, we propose a conceptual framework to understand the micro- and macro-dynamics of open innovation with a quadruple helix model to implement sustainability practices in the fashion sector through design-driven actions—reuse, repair, recycle, and refashion—that aim to eliminate the concept of waste to support local ecosystems toward establishing a closed-loop chain.
Journal Article
Selling Avant-garde: How Antwerp Became a Fashion Capital (1990-2002)
During the 1990s, the Belgian city of Antwerp underwent a branding process as a fashion city. This example does not follow the pattern of contemporary fashion cities, which are chiefly based on major trade activity around fashion. Unlike other celebrated fashion capitals (London, Milan, New York or Paris), Antwerp never hosted any Fashion Week. Conversely, Antwerp's status as a fashion capital was created within the logic of organised tourism and mega-cultural events. The intertwining of both public and private networks of influence resulted in fashion's becoming absorbed by the local institutions as Antwerp's most characteristic creative industry.
Journal Article
Belgian Block
NEW YORK — All joking aside, Belgium has contributed more to culture than waffles, fries and Hercule Poirot. And in the past couple of decades, the fashion industry has gotten more than its fair share of the country's creative quotient
Trade Publication Article
Hotels Get More Fashionable
\"The deal with Missoni has grown into a relationship, and that's the only way that a brand like this can develop,\" said Kurt Ritter, president and chief executive officer of Rezidor SAS. \"It's a unique brand with a great heritage, a very identifiable look and real family values. I'm sure that when we launch the first hotel, in 2007, it will make quite an impact on the market.\"
Trade Publication Article
IN BRIEF: LOVING SHANGHAI...DENIM APPOINTMENT
LOVING SHANGHAI: Just back from a trip to China, Giorgio Armani said an Armani-designed hotel in Shanghai is next on his list.
Journal Article
OFF DUTY --- Adventure & Travel -- Journal Concierge: An Insider's Guide: Fashion for All
Over the past decade, parts like Het Eilandje (\"the little island\") have seen the appearance of chic new bars and restaurants, the most anticipated of them the dining room at the Museum aan de Stroom, the area's first truly iconic work of contemporary architecture. An abstract tower of bricks and glass perched on the water's edge, the museum has style to spare.
Newspaper Article
Oh, Baby
Import.Export Architecture were responsible for the design of the Antwerp offices of 'Fragile', producers of maternitywear. Working with the requested concepts of transparency and strength in a fragile-looking material, the architects created a design of white painted steel tubes which move across the façade, and stairs flanked by foliage.
Magazine Article