Search for dissertations about: "Fashion"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 741 swedish dissertations containing the word Fashion.

  2. 6. "Not So Simple" : Reassessing 1951, G.B. Giorgini and the launch of Italian fashion

    Author : Chiara Faggella; Louise Wallenberg; Alessandra Vaccari; Stephen Gundle; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Italian fashion; Giovanni Battista Giorgini; Commissionaire; Fashion Buyer; Italian couture; Italian handicrafts; Italy at Work; Italian High Fashion Show; Florence fashion; Pitti Immagine; Italian studies; Postwar Italy; Occupation of Italy; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to shed light on the circumstances that allowed Italy to become a reputable country of origin in the international fashion market. In particular, my contribution to the historiography of Italian fashion is a reassessment of the role played by Giovanni Battista Giorgini, whose involvement with the fashion and handicraft industries has not been fully investigated by scholars so far. READ MORE

  4. 7. WomenWeave Daily : "Artisan Fashion" as "Slow and Sustainable Fashion"

    Author : David Goldsmith; Kate Fletcher; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Artisan Fashion; Artisan Textiles; Slow Fashion; Handloom; Heritage Craft; Artisan Economy; Social Enterprise; Khadi; Design Management; Fashion Management; Textile Management; Activity Theory; Business Model Canvas.; Handgjort mode; hantverkstillverkade textilier; långsamt mode; handvävning; kulturellt hantverk; hantverksekonomi; socialt företagande; khadi; Design Management; management inom modesektorn; management inom textiltillverkning; Aktivitetsteori; Business Model Canvas.; Textil och mode generell ; Textiles and Fashion General ;

    Abstract : As awareness has grown of the detrimental, often lethal, aspects of fashion production and use, so too has a global movement to diminish its environmental harms and mediate its social exploitation. In all types of commercial, academic, and popular discourse about fashion, words such as eco-friendly, green, ethical, fair, and slow -- the last being a catch-all term for all things “not fast fashion”-- are ubiquitous. READ MORE

  5. 8. Oscar Night in Hollywood : Fashioning the Red-Carpet from the Roosevelt Hotel to International Media

    Author : Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén; Jan Olsson; Mary R. Desjardins; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Red-Carpet; Academy Awards; Oscars; Fashion; Oscarcast; Epiphenomena; Red-Carpet Treatment; Celebrity Culture; Hollywood Royalty; Stars; Glamour; Media History; Hollywood Designers; Edith Head; Fashion Expert; Fashion Consultant; Best- and Worst- Dressed List; Public Relations; Endorsement; Americana; Television; pseudo-event; media event; vortextuality; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This study investigates the red-carpet phenomenon from a historical perspective, seeking to understand how the Academy Awards’ red-carpet became the most prominent fashion show in media culture. The connections between Hollywood and the fashion industry predate the inception of the ceremony, and so does the role of Hollywood actresses as trendsetters. READ MORE

  6. 9. "In to Stay" : Selling Three-Strip Technicolor and Fashion in the 1930s and 1940s

    Author : Natalie Snoyman; Marina Dahlquist; Lucy Fischer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Three-strip Technicolor; fashion; color; consumerism; promotion; fashion history; rayon; film history; American history; modevetenskap; Fashion Studies;

    Abstract : This study investigates the relationship between the fashion and film industries during the classical era between the early 1930s and mid-1940s. It focuses on the three-strip Technicolor process as the binding force upon which these two industries relied in collaborations during that time and looks at technical challenges the new process presented to productions in terms of wardrobe design. READ MORE

  7. 10. Mass customised fashion : development and testing of a responsive supply chain for mass customised fashion garments

    Author : Jonas Larsson; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; fashion logistics; mass customisation; responsive; supply chain management; Textil och mode inriktning textilt management; Textil och mode generell ; Textiles and Fashion General ;

    Abstract : The background to this thesis is the dynamics and institutions of the fashion world. They have developed out of reasons of convenience and on the whole they work, but there are possibilities of improvement. Time from style and colour-direction to market is up to 18 months, from design to market 12 months and from forecast to market six months. READ MORE