scholarly journals Dressing the weightless body: Subjective verticality and the disoriented experience of dress in microgravity

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-327
Author(s):  
Barbara Brownie
Keyword(s):  
Fashion Design ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Reduced Gravity ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Earth Gravity ◽  
Space Age ◽  
Fashion Designers

Design practice has historically been constrained by the assumption that designed objects, including clothing, will be made and worn in Earth gravity. The notion that designed objects have an upright state has influenced common approaches to design, including the tendency towards depiction and presentation of designed objects in elevation view, which, for fashion, is frequently understood in terms of silhouette. However, those who have experienced weightlessness, either in space travel or on board reduced-gravity aircraft, describe a post-gravity experience that prompts them to revisit these assumptions and consider the extent to which future commercial space travel will liberate creative practitioners to operate at all angles and orientations. As we enter the commercial space age, fashion will be increasingly worn in a variety of gravitational conditions, and the dressed body will therefore be encountered at a variety of orientations, showcasing views of garments that are not often encountered on Earth, and that are therefore often overlooked by fashion designers. This article responds to descriptions of the post-gravity experience by identifying the need to consider alternative views of the clothed body, and consequently to define garments without reference to the silhouette in fashion design for the new commercial space age.

scholarly journals Catwalking the Nation: Challenges and Possibilities in the Case of the Danish Fashion Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Riegels Melchior
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the mobilization of the nation for fashion, based on how the relationship between fashion and nation unfolds in the case of fashion design practice and the fashion industry in Denmark. The otherwise globalized fashion industry is equally involved in what I term “catwalking the nation,” both as a way to construct a cosmopolitan nationalist discourse for the post-industrial nation and as a strategy for local fashion industries to promote collective identity in order to strengthen potential market share, which is the focus of this article. What may at first appear in the Danish case as an absurd and non-productive relationship is actually significant, I would argue, despite its complexity. It has the potential to stimulate critical fashion design practice and give fashion designers a voice, allowing them to take an active part in contemporary public debates on important issues such as nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the age of globalization.

scholarly journals Zero-gravity wardrobes: The behaviour of costume in weightless environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Barbara Brownie
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Zero Gravity ◽  
Reduced Gravity ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Clothing Design ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Inside Out

Abstract In this commercial space age, audiences increasingly expect realism in science fiction. Weightlessness is commonly simulated through physical or virtual special effects, but reduced gravity aircraft offer opportunities for capturing the effects of microgravity more authentically. While this poses practical challenges for costume designers, it also invites the possibility of creative engagement with weightlessness. Costume can be employed to visibly evidence the effects of weightlessness, but to take advantage of this opportunity, designers must discard many of the fundamental principles of fashion design. This article examines the effects of weightlessness on costume in sequences shot on board reduced gravity aircraft, from Apollo 13 (Howard, 1995), The Mummy (Kurtzman, 2017), and the music video for OK Go's 'Upside Down & Inside Out' (Kulash and Sie, 2016), as well as footage of real-life astronauts. It then identifies those features of clothing design which must be reconsidered when designing costume for microgravity.

Comparative analysis of China (Han) & Bangladesh cultural authentication and transformation context on “Motif Design”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Md Moniruzzaman ◽  
Md Eanamul Haque Nizam ◽  
Md Tanjubul Hasan ◽  
Md Ahosanul Karim ◽  
Maria Afrin Shammi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Pattern ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
The Ideal

Now a day, fashion design and clothing manufacturing is going to update day by day. Modern fashion designers are interested to work with the new color, trend, design, pattern, cutline. “Motif Design" and its application may have been a positive way to deal with the ideal tasteful look, while social confirmation and diversification have been considered as key factors. In this study, the author tries to investigate the cultural elements motif between Bangladesh and china (Han). The author investigates different Blogs, magazines, journals, and websites used for the analysis. In order to make this research authentic and credible different local and international published books and articles have been studied. Different websites helped by representing historical progress and reference of the information which adorned in this research. Few Bangladeshi and Chinese apparel fashion brands those who worked with traditional costume were also a way to understand today's influence of Cultural elements. After the analysis, the author finds some features of motif like style, positioning, color and pattern. The research team analyzes those points from the view of two sides. Then the authors finally find out the key similarities from the analysis between the two countries. From the finding, the author designs (flat sketch) a series of dresses for the Contemporary market for future sustainability.

Clash of Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-114
Author(s):  
Jennifer Loy ◽  
Samuel Canning
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Additive Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Fashion Designers

In 2012, a Belgian company called Materialise hosted a fashion show featuring designs from a worldwide millinery competition. The featured pieces were paraded down a catwalk by professional models, and an overall winner chosen. What made this fashion show unusual was that the attendees were predominantly clinical and industrial engineers, and the host was a specialist engineering and software development company that emerged in 1990 from a research facility based at Leuven University. Engineers and product designers rather than fashion designers created the millinery and the works were all realized through additive manufacturing technology. This chapter provides an example of how fashion design has become a creative stimulus for the development of the technology. It illustrates how disruptive creativity has the potential to advance scientific research, with the two worlds of engineering and fashion coming together through a collaboration with industrial design. The chapter highlights the challenges and possible implications for preparing trans-disciplinary research teams.

scholarly journals Figural Creativity, Creative Potential, and Personality among Taiwanese Fashion Design Undergraduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Kuan-Chen Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
First Year ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
Fashion Designers

For modern visual artists and graphic designers, creativity is the sine qua non, and it should be equally important to fashion designers. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationships among figural creativity, creative potential, and personality in a sample of Taiwanese fashion design undergraduates. Convenient sampling was used. A sample of 90 first-year fashion design undergraduate students (73 women and 17 men) at Asia University in Taiwan, was recruited from the Foundation of Design, which is the foundational fashion design course, to participant in this study. This study’s results suggest that figural creativity is not related to creative potential or to personality. However, we suggest that using alternative or additional instruments to measure creative potential and/or include additional relevant variables might build on these findings and increase our understanding of the relationships among figural creativity, creative potential, and personality.

scholarly journals Place Of Creation And Place Of Production: Spatial Dimensions Of The Berlin Fashion-Design Production Network

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Copercini
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Design Production ◽  
Entrepreneurial Strategies ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Start Ups

Abstract Fashion design plays a significant role in Berlin’s creative industries and for its start-up scene. Berlin has the highest concentration of designers in Germany, most of them working in small start-ups, while the spatial organisation of their production is stretched from the local level to the global network of fashion events, showing different entrepreneurial strategies within the production process. Different spatial structures of the production organisation are identifiable through which it is possible to discuss the role of Berlin in the production network of fashion designers and the kinds of relations holding between the city, designers, and their production network.

The Application of Color Psychological Effect on Fashion Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 796 ◽  
pp. 474-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Psychological Effect ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Color Psychology

Due to fast-paced society and fierce competition, more and more attentions are paid to consumers way of life and their psychological needs in fashion design. Color, a major element of fashion design, is a certain psychological feeling stimulated from vision, a combination of perception and ration. It should be designed and applied from the aspect of color psychology. Based on the cases and survey, this study aims to explore the application of psychological effect of color in fashion design. Fashion designers should consider the fashion color, focus on consumers preference for color, shade, style, patterns and the psychological effect, meet psychological needs of the target and potential consumers, and express psychological suggestion effect of color. Designers should also develop products at the level of matter and spirit, select fashion color to consumers mind, and finally apply color psychological effect in fashion planning and designing, products developing and marketing. The results of this study may play a guiding role in the strategy of modern fashion design.

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