This article marks the fifth in Urban Times’ EcoFashion Series. We hope to shed some light on the eco fashion industry by exploring elements such as the sustainability‚ culture‚ ecology‚ psychology‚ labour and future of fashion. Our authors explore to what extent eco fashion is on the cusp of becoming the next big trend. Previous episode: Psychology of Fashion I was just having an incredibly insightful conversation with Dr. Frank Shaw of Centre for Future Studies about the proper methodology
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Fashion is one of the world’s most important creative industries. It has provided economic thought with a canonical example in theorizing about consumption and conformity. Social thinkers have long treated fashion as a window upon social class and social change. Cultural theorists have focused on fashion to reflect on symbolic meaning and social ideals. Fashion has also been seen to embody representative characteristics of modernity‚ and even of culture itself. Everyone wears clothing and inevitably
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Career Speech Purpose: To inform audience about the career of a Fashion Director Intro: The fashion industry is something I’ve always wanted to be involved in since I was young‚ and I knew I had no choice but to make a career out of it. Many people are skeptical of any career within the fashion industry‚ well‚ in my opinion‚ only because they think you won’t benefit from it or be able to find a job at all. But in actuality‚ fashion is always changing and the demand for people with the knowledge
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Kids Fashion Week The article written by “The Daily Beast” Tom Sykes‚ focused on the effects of London’s “Kids Fashion Week”‚ on children. Sykes started with his own experience as a child. His mother happens to specialize in hand-made clothes‚ using materials like cotton‚ silk‚ and wool. She’s been doing so for over 50 years and does work for all ages‚ especially for young children. He talks about his experience posing for his mothers adverts in the “British Vogue”. He states that the
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English Programme 2010 Unconditional What role‚if any‚does ethics play in the fashion/design industry? Ethical fashion means fashion which takes into consideration the people behind the clothes we wear‚as well as the environment. When you buy some clothes‚ you may not consider twice about where it was originally made‚by whom and under what conditions.These days people like fast fashion. Fast fashion means fashion that is fast. In other word‚ these clothes adapt to the latest trends quickly
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from Gucci?’ ‘No‚ I prefer the latest designer wear from Rohit Ball’ These are lines often heard in the fashion conscious creme de la creme of Indian society. The story is the same in almost any commercially ‘happening’ city in the world except that the names of the designers keep changing. This does not mean that the national designers have not made a dent in the world market! The Indian fashion world got global attention after Miss Sushmita Sen and Miss Aishwarya Rai won the much coveted Miss Universe
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Women’s fashion in the 1920’s there clothing developed closer with art and it was expressed in a simple elegant designs with careful selected fabrics and intelligent use of different colors. There was beautiful coordinated and accessorized outfits were a feature of 1920’s ladies fashions. Hats‚ shoes‚ stockings‚ handbags‚ dresses and jewelry they all came together to create a unique and elegant style that can only be appreciated when seen in the streets. Women’s fashions experienced dramatic changes
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Fashion Today The demographics in China are changing and China is growing in various aspects. With over 1.3 billion people living the country‚ China is potentially the biggest market for clothing. And the population is still increasing very rapidly. Every person of these 1.3 billion is a potential costumer for the fashion industry. But a decade ago China was not very much a fashion consuming country but more a fashion producer for the rest of the world. Nowadays China is one of the most promising
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Upmarket brands may have begun stalking mass consumers‚ but the trend labelled ‘massluxe’ (or ‘masstige’‚ take your pick) is more about chain stores smartening up. Gap‚ for instance‚ went one step further than H&M by naming Domenico De Sole‚ the former chief executive of Gucci group‚ to its board‚ and hiring designers who had previously worked with Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein. To underline the change‚ a subsequent print advertising campaign starred Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker‚ a style
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ZARA: Fast Fashion Zara’s performance in the EU. Zara is the largest and most internationalized of Inditex (Industria de Diseno Textil) chain based on Spain. Zara had built up their business in the Spanish market by 1990‚ and started to expand their business into global market. At the same time‚ according to the case‚ they started to make major investments in manufacturing logistics and IT‚ including establishment of a just-in-time manufacturing system‚ a 130‚000-square-meter warehouse close
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