Fashionable Technology refers to the intersection of design, fashion, science, and technology. Fashionable wearables are ‘designed’ garments, accessories, or jewelry that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology. As designers of fashionable wearables, we view end users as fashionable beings who are attentive to style and the powerful potential of wearable technologies. Our design philosophy …
In the early 1980s, Japanese fashion exploded onto the international scene. The work of designers such as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garc;ons was predicated on a revolutionary aesthetic vision-loose, architectural shapes, asymmetry, unusual textures and somber colors, “lace” made of holes and rips in fabric. To a Western public, …
In David Henry Hwang’s Tony award-winning play, M. Butterfly, Broadway audiences encounter a dazzling spectacle, in which a tale of seemingly mistaken gender identities and delusions perpetuated over decades occasions a richly textured production moving in and around the spaces of global politics, gender and racial identities, and the power relations inevitably present in what …
“I am so happy, thank you so much,” a tearful Julia Roberts sniffled when receiving her Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001. In the press coverage of the show, the actress was acclaimed for her professional achievement but also for her choice of outfit.Because what she was wearing was not the latest or newest …
Fashion is a complex cultural phenomenon made up of the creative design process of garments, cultural affiliation, commercial industry, and consumer needs. The processes of consumer adoption and the cycles of change in the fashion industry have traditionally mirrored each other.Fashion cycles refer to the organization of the fashion industry in seasons that is perpetuated …
Does it make sense to speak of contemporary society as a society of culture that still relates to the Kantian conception of modern society? The answer is yes in the basic sense that contemporary society knows itself as a society of culture, even though its relation to the high culture of European modernity is marked …
So far we have talked about superheroes, now we are talking about another subculture and that is Mafia or gangsters. In the year 2000 there appeared an article the journal disseminated by the Council for Exceptional Children of the US entitled “‘Gangstas’ in Your Classroom: How to Recognize Them and What Teachers Should Know”. The …
In the previous article, I mentioned that there are issues surrounding the understanding of popular and pop culture, and then I addressed the role of men. Here, too, we continue to discuss the role of masculinity in the formation of popular culture, and then in another article, we will discuss the differences between pop popular …
One of my concerns in the collections I have worked on has been popular culture and the impact of elite culture on it. A clear example I can give is my collection, “Golha” (flowers), which is actually inspired by the Radio Golha. Radio Golha was a radio program in which we could listen to the …
The fashion system creates symbolic boundaries between what is fashion and what is not fashion and also determines what the legitimate aesthetic taste is. Producers of fashion, including designers and other fashion professionals who are agents of fashion, make a contribution in defining a taste that is represented as items of fashionable clothing.After clothes are …