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The “Mominista”: Can Fashion and Function meet?
In honors in Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about my mother’s fashion. I grew up as a 90s kid surrounded by the neon flash and bold prints of clothes only children could wear; my mom, in comparison, wore very subdued, neutral clothing. Her style still remains very much the same today: a splash…
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Streetwear and credibility as commodity
Hip-hop and streetwear have always been about access on some level. False scarcity drives up second-hand prices and increases one’s credibility for owning and flaunting notably rare items of clothing. Acquisition of these goods requires knowing when and where to go, and having the means with which to purchase them.
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Bringing Down the Houses
If ever there were a precarious moment when the foundations of the great houses of fashion should tremble this is it. Labels rely on three elements when crafting fashion, and one is about to become obsolete. Aesthetic, innovation, and scarcity rule the industry. Designers are skilled artists working within the medium of silhouette and texture. …
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Prosthetics as Wearable Sculpture: The Future of Functional Fashion
With the evolution of 3-d printing, functional fashion is due a radical awakening. I’m not talking about structural creations with which some of the well established fashion houses have begun to experiment. Within the next decade we should see the capability to print human tissue using a patient’s own stem cells, and eventually biomedical engineers…
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Check out Pin Show 2013
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Fashioning Circuits Independent Studies Spring 2013
I am pleased to be able to return to work on Fashioning Circuits in Spring 2013, with a group of five new students!
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Techno-Fashion 2.0: Fashion Designed for the Disabled
The concept of the cyborg or techno-fashion is not a new one to Fashioning Circuits. Fashion that has the ability to extend the capabilities of the human body is a topic that I, for one, find particularly fascinating. It may surprise the FC reader, howeve,r to learn that there also exists another perhaps lower tech…
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Rampant Consumerism; Environmentally Sustainable – POSSIBLE?
When you think of the world of fashion – what comes to mind? Glamorous? Exciting? Very possible those words are just a couple that are used to describe the fashion industry; but have you stopped to think about the impact to the environment? I would bet money that the same words would not be in…
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FASHION – How It Shapes Who We Are
Review of Fashion Philosophy for Everyone Have you ever tried to discover the hidden meaning in the way you dress? How about in the way others dress? Coco Chanel once said, ‘If a woman is badly dressed, it’s the dress we’ll notice; but if she is impeccably dressed, it’s the woman herself we’ll notice.’
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Online Fashion Shows – Is Technology Taking Over Tradition?
During New York Fashion Week (February 15), a digital fashion show was launched. It was a platform designed to deliver fashion to buyers and press members – online-only!