Author: lipequini
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Wearable Technology – what’s ready to wear
We have talked a lot about wearable technology on this blog, but very little about what is already available out there. After a little research on Google and the Fashioning Tech blog, here are the fashion technological attires and accessories you can buy online.
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Social Media and Women’s Body Image
“The ideal figure of fashion has never been the celebration of the natural, but the test of a woman’s ability to resist it.” (Techno Fashion, 2002)
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Tech Fashion and Aesthetics: can wearable technology ever be aesthetically pleasing?
Technology in fashion has a broad meaning. It can mean from new ecological-type fabrics to laser cut on clothing. But in this post I want to talk about the type of attire that seems to want to combine practicality and clothing. After an entire semester studying fashion and technology, a question kept coming back to…
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Fashion, Technology and Art: Jean Paul Gaultier’s exhibit at the DMA
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is a much anticipated exhibit that highlights Gaultier’s career from the 70’s to 2010. Lucky for us, Dallas was one of the only two US cities chosen to host it and the Fashioning Circuits crew went to see what the buzz was about.
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Women and ads
These past few weeks, while surfing the web, I found a couple of interesting things regarding the objetification of women. The first one was this video, called Killing Us Softly. Yes, it’s old, it dates back from 1999, but even 10 years later these statements are valid. The speaker talks a lot about fashion ads,…
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Before I started reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Naomi Wolf, 1991) I was thinking: “oh great, another book that will tell me how women are influenced by magazines, big news”. But I’m glad to say I was mistaken.