Fashion Circles
Date: December 2003
Creator: Öhrn, Linda
Description: Through this body of work and this paper the possibilities of using Fashion Design to express the concepts of the circle has been explored. This was done with three questions in mind: How can I use the shape of the circle as inspiration for fashion design? How can I express related words and phrases in my design? and How can I use the colors black and white to emphasize the concept of my design. To answer these questions I have created two groups of garments: one was inspired by circular objects, such as cherries and drops, and the other starting from words and phrases such as "study circle" and "circle the wagons." In the first group the emphasis was on the aesthetics of the garment while the second group was more focused on meaning. All garments are black and white.
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Fashion Designs for Women
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Date: 186?
Creator: Worth, Charles Frederick
Description: This colored engraving depicts two women wearing dresses designed in the 1860s.
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Origami in Fashion
Date: August 2003
Creator: Wu, Chia-Lin
Description: The focus of my work is the incorporation of three-dimensional sculptural forms into the design of my garments while still maintaining the functional purpose of the garment. Origami paper folding is the inspiration for the sculptural forms. The major endeavor was to explore and solve the relationship between the organic human forms and the geometric forms created by the origami paper folds. This presented a challenge of exact precision. During this process, I experimented with different fabrics, which can accommodate the sharp creases and retain the shape. A variety of folding patterns were also explored. Although the design should be innovative and creative, the final garment must be wearable and comfortable.
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Fashion Before Ease or A Good Constitution Sacrificed for a Fantastic Form
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Date: 1793
Creator: Woodward, George Moutard
Description: The original color etching depicts a tailor attempting with great exertion to tighten a woman's corset. Text beneath the illustration is satirical in nature.
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New Year's Card with Women in Au Courant Fashion with Cityscape
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Date: 1932
Creator: Atsuo Tanaka & Co.
Description: The vertically oriented postcard features two standing women in winter clothes in the foreground and in the background a cityscape is implied with a few short black lines. The year 1932 and a salutation in Japanese are in the upper right hand corner of the postcard.
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From Dirty Realism to Heroin Chic: How Fashion Becomes a Scapegoat for Cultural Anxieties
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Ledford, Jenna
Description: Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how "dirty realism" fashion trends like "riot grrls" and "heroin chic" came into being during the 1990s as an attempt to reflect society.
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Man Ray's 'Noire et Blanche': Avant-garde, fashion, and Other(s)
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Weston, Charisse & Way, Jennifer
Description: This paper discusses research on Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche'. Abstract: Man Ray's photographic series, 'Noire et blanche', 1926, consists of more than twenty photographs of a pale-faced, female model holding a darkly stained African mask. Most of the photographs draw our attention to similarities in the shape of the model's face and that of the mask, as well as contrasts between the model's paleness and the mask's darkness. Although the first photograph from the series was published in 'Vogue' and 'Variétés' during the 1920s, the series did not gain attention in the art world until the 1980s when scholarly and critical interest in primitive art redeveloped within the contexts of postmodernism and post-colonialism. This paper advances beyond the too often superficially noted formal similarities and contrasts between the representations of the woman and the mask to identify cultural connections between the representations of the woman and the mask to identify cultural connections between them involving sexual and racial "Otherness". Establishing the connections involves a consideration of why modern artists often used African art or the female figure in their work. Importantly, by analyzing how the photographs foster formal similarities rendering the model and mask alike, the author is able ...
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Man Ray's 'Noire et Blanche': Avant-garde, fashion, and Other(s)
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Weston, Charisse & Way, Jennifer
Description: This presentation accompanies a paper examining Man Ray's photographic series, 'Noire et blanche' from 1926. 'Noire et Blanche consists of more than twenty photographs of a pale-faced, female model holding a darkly stained African mask. This presentation accompanies the research and shows four of the photographs in this series.
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Doll
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Date: 1865
Creator: Marsh, Julian Charles (attribution: probably made by)
Description: In this view, the doll is seated in a small chair. She is wearing a green dress with white lace and black shoes.
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Fashion-brand Experiences in Multi-channel Retailing: Impacts of Experience Dimensions and Experience Types on Brand Resonance
Date: December 2011
Creator: Evans, Leslie J.
Description: The brand behind the garment is what gives the product popularity, relevance to the consumer, and overall profitability. As time passes, markets are becoming flooded with more brands that inherently provide the commodities. As a result, fashion marketers must put more time and investment into stipulating ways for which their brand can reach a select target consumer and enhance repeat purchase intentions with their competitive differentiations. As their efforts engage, an experiential perspective emerges in the fashion industry. By comparing fashion brands and their different distribution channels, the objectives of this study are to identify consumers’ perceptions of fashion brand experience dimensions and experience types, and to investigate the effect of brand experience dimensions and types on brand resonance. Upon extending Schmitt and Brakus, Schmitt, and Zarantonello’s experience dimensions and types, in conjunction with Keller’s brand resonance model, 12 out of 20 hypotheses confirm the significant impact of consumers experiences on brand resonance by analyzing the data (n = 374) from a university in the United States. Sensory and affective experiences are primary factors for establishing fashion brand association, while cognitive and relational driven experiences lead to establishing fashion brand loyalty. Sensory, affective, and relational experiences affect both product and ...
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