Before I came to the RCA and to London, I worked as a textile designer specialising in the design of men’s ties in Seoul, South Korea. My business was relatively small and I enjoyed making bespoke textiles for my customers. Over time, I got to know my customers well, and tried to base my designs on this personal knowledge. I wanted the ties to be more than just mere physical objects; instead I wanted to imbue them with an emotional attachment that reflected the relationship between me and my customers and my knowledge of their lives and personalities. I began talking to my customers and noticed that – unconsciously – my designs were becoming more dialogical2, a graphical representation of the conversations and stories we shared.
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The new research raises the question of ethical silk, made without the destruction of the moth within the cocoon, and the ethics of employment practices within the silk manufacturing industry today.
The majority of mass production generates pollution, which causes climate change.
In an era of fast-fashion, mass-produced textile waste has continued to grow4.
According to the report Valuing our Clothes , extending the average life of clothes by only three months of active use would lead to a five to ten per cent reduction in each of the carbon, water and waste footprints; around 350,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in landfill in the UK every year5.
Waste is not just a UK problem. Dongdaemoon market is the biggest fashion and textiles market in South Korea. Many young designers work there but follow fashion trends rather than creating their own unique designs. About 20 tonnes of fabric waste is generated per day. Seoul city authorities estimate that it collects about 5,000 tonnes of waste resources, such as fabric and banners, per year from the
Dongdaemoon market.6
The challenge of designing environmentally friendly textiles within existing economic systems without
managed to get a job in graphic illustration and worked on many pieces for magazines, authors
For people who wants to buy clothing in Myer, they usually go shopping with friends or family, so they could get some suggestions from others. When people making decisions of buy new clothes, usually they have little knowledge of how the cloth will looks like on them, so they need to try them on, this process often take a long time. The influcences at the points of sales of these products will be whether customers like the style or not, the suggestions from friends, families and salesperson, and whether customers think the product worth the price (Rahman, Rahaman, Jensen, & Gällstedt 2008, p. 42-43).
Wayne Dyer once said “doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life”. Ever since I was a little girl, fashion has always been a very important part of my life. However, while most young girls were busy designing Barbie’s next outfit, I was enthusiastically trying to figure out the best way to market and sell Barbie to my friends. This habit did not end during my childhood years; rather it followed me through high school. I firmly believe that being passionate about your career can add much happiness and depth to your life. By attending FIT I can bring and take away positive ideas and qualities.
For the past hundred years the need for clothing increased since the number of people of keeps growing. As the years go on, producers must find new ways to produce more clothing to make more profit and keep up with demand. Before people would either have to ride all the way into town to have tailors make their clothes, or have someone at home make the clothing for them. But as the years progressed, methods have changed dramatically.
This papers purpose is to teach fashion heavy consumers on the real price of fast fashion and how buying it affects the environment. This type of audience can be anyone who partakes in the buying of well-known cheap retail stores that have a large audience of being fast and obtainable. These consumers should have the information on how fast fashion effects are environment so it could possibly alter their buying habits to be eco-friendlier but buying either less or more sustainable clothing instead of the cheap alternatives. This audience should care about this purpose because this will affect the world now and for future generations as their environment is being mistreated because of these fast
As a child, I have always been a visually observatory person. Patterns, textiles, and fashion have always been high interests of mine. My childhood consisted of many Barbie dolls as toys, and it wasn't the Barbie dolls that I wanted to play with, but the clothes that I loved to collect and interchange between the dolls. Creating different outfits for the dolls made me feel as if I was making my own mark in fashion. As I grew older, begging my mother to purchase fashion magazines like Vogue, Elle, and Harpers Bazaar were typical and became expected. While flipping through the pages of fashion magazines, I was enthralled while examining the latest trends from celebrities and models. This is what influenced me to want to work in the fashion industry.
Over the course of the history of clothing styles and production, one thing has never changed: a person’s wealth directly influences
80 billion clothing items are produced every year. About two million tons of clothes is thrown away every year. The clothes often cannot be resold due to lack of quality. Only about 10% of clothes are resold. ¾ of the clothing’s manifested from fast fashion labels will end up in a land fill after a year after it is put out for consumers to buy.
sewing, it occurred to me that perhaps I can create garments that are easily adaptive to
Clothing styles have changed drastically over the many years of civilization. From hand made, hand sewn, pieces of fabric, to mas produced, factory made, clothing, through technology clothing has changed. The evolution of clothing is due to technological advances in the making of mass produced clothing. Throughout history clothing has had a big impact of social status.
I ended up getting my own show on E. That was a fashion focus talk show. Then I did Fashion Police, and I was in that world. Then it wasn't really until I came to Home & Family that I actually started doing DIY on camera. It had just been something that I did for my own life for my own wardrobe and for my friends. It wasn't anything I thought could be a career. At the time, DIY wasn't what it is now. But Home & Family opened the door for me to do it as a career.
Of the hundreds of named brand clothing that form part of the retail and fashion industry I chose to compare, for my analysis, Abercrombie & Fitch, Forever 21, American Eagle, and H&M. These stores are prominent, well-known for selling apparel, shoes, and accessories by the means of offering sales and promotions to their customers. This is a clever strategy for attracting customers, allowing them to believe that they bought goods at affordable, convenient prices – and not to mention the prestigious name prescribed to the clothing brands. Using keyhole.co as my main source, I obtained relevant and valuable information regarding the status of these brands. My intentions were to compare a period of 14 days, however, due to the limited access that I received from my free trial, the program only allowed me to see fewer of the dates than I anticipated. I want to take this opportunity and mention ahead of time that due to the various and distinctive products that are sold from these stores, when looking for the “spending capacity” I decided to focus on shirts/ jeans for men and women and compare the prices among them since each of these retailers carry those items and as a way to make this report easier to contrast and comprehend. Also, when approaching the section of “setting”, I screen-shotted some of the images on Instagram and made them into a collage to separate the type of clothes and trends that each of these brands sell currently. In the following modules
enjoyed trying new designs with my makeup. I had also been through a lot of different
Immediately after dropping out of Fashion School, Kors began working at Lothar’s, and later started to design clothing for that company. Lothar’s was where Kors first introduced his talent and passion for designing clothing.They greatly praised his work. After this insane success he later joined Celine, a fashion house of France. His clothing line was also a major success for Celine, giving their company even more popularity from such designs. He had also designed clothing for famous actresses. He later left, Celtics in
The item I researched was Levis jeans. I believe this item is a need in life because, it is necessary we cover our body from the public. In my dresser at home I have about five Levi jeans that I wear almost everyday. Since I wear jeans almost everyday, I wear one pair of jeans a day. Bodies grow everyday so with the amount of jeans I have and wear, my jeans should last at least one to one and half years. After that I need to buy new jeans and with that I usually donate my jeans to Goodwill or hand them down family friends in need of jeans. Borrowing jeans is harder when you get older because your body is completely different from the person’s body next to you. When I was younger I wore hand down jeans from the neighbor girls