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'Basics Textile Design' titles provide visual arts students with a theoretical and practical exploration of each of the fundamental topics within the discipline of textile design.
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From Design Decisions to Sustainable Development: Exploring Textile and Fashion Designers’ Challenges in the Portuguese Textile and Fashion Industry
Textile and fashion designers play a strategic role in sustainable development within the textile chain. Several studies highlight the decision-making role of designers, emphasizing how their choices influence the entire production sector. The aim of this research is to examine how design decisions within the Portuguese textile and fashion industry influence the implementation of sustainable development principles by exploring designers’ perceptions, practices, and the challenges they encounter throughout the design process. To achieve the proposed goal, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 designers from the industry. The collected data were qualitatively evaluated using NVivo software, highlighting the complexity of incorporating sustainability into the design process. The findings revealed that daily challenges are primarily related to fashion business models, greenwashing, limited knowledge of raw materials and finishing processes, cost constraints, lack of transparency and traceability in the supply chain, and low consumer awareness. By examining both the conceptual understanding and practical application of sustainability in the design process, this research provides strategic lines into designers’ decision-making processes, highlights barriers to sustainable practice, and underscores the importance of design education. The study contributes to academic debate and identifies opportunities for advancing sustainable practices and circularity in the textile and fashion industry, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDGs 9, 12, and 13, to transform the current industrial and consumption models.
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Knowledge acquisition efficiency, strategic renewal frequency and firm performance in high velocity environments
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate what type of knowledge enhances the frequency of strategic renewal for organizations operating in high velocity environments. It also investigates whether strategic renewal frequency is beneficial, rather than harmful in such environments.
Design/methodology/approach
The study followed a two-step data collection process involving pilot interviews and an on-site survey data collection procedure. The authors first conducted face-to-face pilot interviews with 16 fashion retailers lasting 30 min to 2 h. They then tested their hypotheses by using a sample of 152 South Korean fashion retailers, as the fashion industry is a prototypical high velocity environment.
Findings
Firms that have a higher rate of strategic renewal frequency outperform those with a lower one. Moreover, the frequency of strategic renewal mitigates the ill effects of lack of legitimacy not imbued by a franchisor’s backing. Finally, firms can increase the frequency of their strategic renewal efforts by accessing knowledge from their main customers more efficiently.
Originality/value
The results of this study provide a refined picture of the role of knowledge acquisition efficiency and strategic renewal frequency in the pursuit of competitive advantage in high velocity environments.
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Sustainability Practices Across the Product Life Cycle of Indian Fashion Designers and Their Impact on Financial Performance: An Exploratory Study of SMEs in an Emerging Market
This study seeks to identify the sustainability practices in place across the life cycles of products manufactured by Indian fashion designer-wear firms and the impact of these practices on the financial performance of these organizations. In-depth interviews were conducted with the founders of seven Indian fashion designer-wear firms selected via non-probability purposive sampling. The interviews were recorded and transcribed for data analysis by in-vivo coding. Themes across the product life cycle: the designer concept of sustainability influencing the design process; sourcing, materials, waste; use of craft and production practices; communication and co-creation with stakeholders and distribution of products; product afterlife; financial impact of sustainability practices. The relationship between sustainability and financial performance is highly contextual, and more academic research is needed across different industries in different geographies. No study has yet been conducted exploring the financial impact of sustainability practices on the Indian fashion and apparel sector. Recommendations include sourcing sustainable, natural, recycled, high-quality materials; sourcing locally; sustainable packaging materials, eco-friendly production techniques; providing customer care and after-sales support; collaboration with NGOs, waste pickers, and educational institutions; paying fair wages; providing safe working conditions; using energy-efficient technologies, reduced or zero waste production (utilizing off-cuts for additional products and waste materials for packaging, efficient color waste management, building on existing collections, limiting production to customer demand, avoiding excess stock); optimizing designs, production processes; working closely with a weaver community; effective communication of sustainability practices to stakeholders.
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How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions? Lessons from the Catwalk
Faced with high uncertainty, how do producers in the cultural economy make creative decisions? We present a case study of the fashion modeling industry. Using participant observation, interviews and network analysis of the Spring/Summer 2007 Fashion Week collections, we explain how producers select models for fashion shows. While fashion producers conceive of their selection of models as a matter of \"taste,\" or personal preference, we find that their decisions are shaped by information sharing mechanisms in social networks, principally through a mechanism known as \"optioning,\" which enables producers to know each others' preferences and to align themselves with similar status actors. For cultural producers, choices are a matter of strategic status considerations, even as they are expressed as a matter of personal taste.
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The concept of fashion marketing as an instrument of reducing tensions between designers and marketing experts in fashion companies
Tensions between designers and marketing experts in fashion companies are created largely because the design values are opposing to the values of marketing. Among other things, a better understanding of the concept of fashion marketing, which is based on equal respect for design, customers and profits of fashion companies, contributes to the reduction of misunderstanding. It has been confirmed by research carried out in the countries of the Western Balkan.
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Working Out What to Wear in Papua New Guinea: The Politics of Fashion in Stella
In this article I discuss Stella, a new women's magazine in Papua New Guinea. Noting that Stella provides a context for celebrating new Pacific femininities, I argue that the magazine's representations of fashion are a crucial way in which this refiguring of the feminine occurs. Discussing the significance of what women wear through reference to anthropological insights about the relationship between clothing, gender, and status, I suggest that in PNG, clothing is a focal point of cultural debate. Through its playful politics, Stella intervenes in this debate, thus smuggling a deeply political message between its glossy pages. In addition, I demonstrate that through its selective aestheticization of the \"local\" and the \"traditional,\" the magazine acknowledges educated, young Papua New Guinean women's desire to reconfigure \"culture\" in more inclusive ways.
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The diamond approach to the competitiveness of Korea's apparel industry
The Korean textiles and apparel-related industry has played a major role in the country's development; however, this sector's competitiveness is decreasing due mainly to labor costs. As with the country's economic development, the new sources of competitive factors need to be strategically developed and cultivated. The purpose of this study is to explore what constitutes a country's competitiveness in the global apparel market after losing its labor competitiveness and how a country effectively achieves it. This study employs two competitiveness models, Porter's diamond model and a generalized double diamond model, as a theoretical framework. Along with two theoretical models, this study employs extensive literature reviews, examples of successful firms, and four interviews with field practitioners in the Korean apparel industry. Beginning with Porter four determinants (factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm strategy, structure, and rivalry), new sources of competitive advantage factors are suggested for the evolving industry. The generalized double diamond model incorporates international activities, which may occur either within a country or outside a country. Utilizing generalized double diamond model, the future directions and solutions for the industry with the identified new competitive factors were suggested. Based on the models and the identification of new competitive factors, the Korean apparel industry is reviewed, and recommendations are made for its continued growth in the global marketplace. Implications pertaining to the creation of a dynamic self-reinforcing diamond system were also suggested.
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Becoming a fashion designer
The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design Anyone who has ever tried to launch a fashion design career knows how grueling it can be. The fashion industry is a highly prominent field, yielding a competitive environment that is greatly guarded, secretive, and difficult to infiltrate. Becoming a Fashion Designer provides all the information, resources, and tools you need to help you navigate these obstacles and successfully launch a career in fashion design. Of the various job opportunities available in the fashion industry, the career path of a fashion designer consistently ranks as the most popular position in the field, making the competition even greater. The book pays special attention to this and demonstrates several ways in which an aspiring fashion designer can stand out from the competition. A dynamic and comprehensive career guide, this book imparts insider tips from top fashion designers and executives based around the world. Expert advice includes an introduction to a career in fashion design, educational requirements, career opportunities, the design process, portfolio creation, preparation for getting hired, steps to start and run one′s own fashion design business, as well as a forecast of the future of the fashion industry. Features original interviews from top designers and high-profile fashion executives, including Ralph Rucci, Reem Acra, Peter Som, Anna Sui, Nanette Lepore, Kay Unger, Stuart Weitzman, Dennis Basso, Randolph Duke, Zang Toi, Pamella Roland, Robert Verdi and Daymond John Includes cases in point and insider tips throughout Includes illustrations, drawings, sketches, and photographs demonstrating various aspects of working in fashion design, with special contributions from renowned illustrator, Izak Zenou and legendary fashion photographer, Nigel Barker Offers in-depth resources to assist you on your journey to becoming a fashion designer Whether a student, recent college graduate, industry professional or career changer, you′ll learn everything you need to know to successfully develop a fashion design career.
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E-LEARNING OF VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING – KEY FACTOR IN THE TEXTILE&CLOTHING DOMAIN
3D design software and virtual prototyping are current developments of the clothing industry, in line with Industry 4.0 digitization pillar. Use of software renders to the textile-clothing domain much more attractiveness for the students and the young professionals. Virtual prototyping of clothing enables fabric modelling, appearance of the fit and visualising of the garment. It permits fast design to market cycles, simplified communication and improved quality of garments. A partnership of six European education and research providers from Romania, Belgium, France, Portugal and Slovenia have joined forces to conceive educational materials and train students in the field of virtual prototyping of clothing. The necessity and benefits of e-learning in this field were outlined within a interviews with stakeholders on partnership level. An e-learning platform was designed and will be implemented with educational materials in the field of virtual prototyping. The e-learning platform will include a digital-design-learning (DDL) page, which enables online 3D design of clothing, by connecting to databases of fabrics, garments, styles and human avatars. The e-learning platform will also include educational modules with descriptions of the manufacturing processes, a search engine into the database, as well as connections to partner's websites, project website and other users via APIs. The work is in progress within the Erasmus+ DigitalFashion project with duration 2022-2025, www.digitalfashionproject.eu.
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