Search for dissertations about: "Fashion"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 741 swedish dissertations containing the word Fashion.

  2. 21. Acts of seeing : seeing as a methodological tool in fashion design

    Author : Stefanie Malmgren de Oliveira; Ricarda Bigolin; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Seeing; fashion design process; methods; ideation; aesthetic goal; Textil och mode generell ; Textiles and Fashion General ;

    Abstract : Fashion design can be described as perpetually having to produce new suggestions of dress. The foundational tool for realising such propositions in a precise and focused way is the act of seeing. READ MORE

  4. 22. The Three Pillars of Sustainability : Juxtaposing two Swedish fashion companies and their corporate sustainability concepts

    Author : Judith Katharina Nyfeler; Andrea Kollnitz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sustainability; brand values; ecology; corporate responsibility; slow fashion; Swedish fashion; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : The fashion system has increasingly been imbued by ecology and sustainability. While in the recent years a lot on approaches to more sustainable consumption behaviour from the con- sumers’ side have been suggested, this study focuses on the very practice of how sustainabil- ity - in an applied matter - is realised within a fashion company. READ MORE

  5. 23. An improvisational, practice-oriented approach to innovation : Examples from the fashion industry

    Author : Sara Öhlin; Ali Yakhlef; Jan Löwstedt; Louise Wallenberg; Matt Watson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; innovation; practice; fashion; improvising; planning; routines; practice memory; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : Fashion and innovation interrelate in multiple and complex ways. With its routinized, cyclical production yet creative context, the fashion industry is sustained by an ongoing tension between stability and change. As a consequence, innovative activities are performed in everyday work routines. READ MORE

  6. 24. Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design

    Author : Otto Von Busch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fashion Design; Hacktivism; Hacking; Heresy; Small Change; Professional-Amateurs; Do-it-yourself; Action Spaces; Artistic Research; Practice-based research;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. READ MORE

  7. 25. Lucky People Forecast : a systemic futures perspective on fashion and sustainability

    Author : Mathilda Tham; Richard Kimbell; Kate Fletcher; Emma Dewberry; Kay Stables; University of London Goldsmiths; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Lucky people; Fashion; Sustainability; Futures; Systems thinking; Change; Metadesign; Design; Design;

    Abstract : The detrimental environmental effects associated with fashion production and consumption are increasingly recognised, and strategies in place. However, these are production-focused, top-down strategies, which do not reach where the impact is highest - the user phase, or where the scope for improvement is utmost - the design phase. READ MORE