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From the King to the Couturier: Rui Spohr and the Role of the Fashion Designer in Brazil
Until the French Revolution, power was manifested through clothing, being strongly subjected to sumptuary laws, in an attempt to protect the appearance/social status of the monarchy. In contrast, the nineteenth century promotes the rise of the couturier,
Renata Fratton Noronha
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Imagining Cool Fashion Bodies and “Exoticism” in the Literature of the Weimar Republic
The era of the Weimar Republic is regarded as a period showing a marked increase in cool fashion presentations. Depictions of coolness as a fashion practice of dressing and style narratives in the literature of the Weimar Republic has this far hardly ...
Catharina Rüß
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Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, where she has organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1997, including “A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk”, “Pink: The ...
Mina Roces, Valerie Steele
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“Historical Mode”. Heritage and Revival in Contemporary Fashion
The article explores the links between fashion and the past in contemporary times, the love of revival, the taste for vintage and the importance of a brand's cultural heritage.
Sofia Gnoli
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New British Fashion Photography: Going Against the Conventionally Beautiful
The theoretical framework around British fashion photography has often considered it as a mercantile (Hall-Duncan) and social issue rather than an artistic one (Val Williams).
Julie Morère
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Long organized around an inventory of successive sartorial forms, the history of fashion has recently known different methodological currents, from fashion studies to material culture. Yet it has not always benefitted from the theoretical corpus normally
Adrian Kammarti
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The Dictionary of Fashion History
- What is an Apollo knot? - Who wore a Welch wig? - When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard.
Valerie Cumming +2 more
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Italian Fashion History and Cultural Heritage: Data for a Tourist Guide
The essay wants to introduce a mapping base, currently in progress, relative to museums, archives of fashion, costume galleries, present in Italy, such as constituent elements for the construction of a tourist guide, dedicated to the preservation and ...
Daniela Calanca
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The need to evaluate automated approaches arises not from a lack of expertise among historians but from the challenge of scaling, reproducing, and systematizing dress silhouette classification across large digital datasets.
Liliana Indrie +5 more
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An axiomatic design theory for design of apparel products
An apparel product has a unique feature other than other products in that apparel product design must consider three categories of design requirements, namely function (governed by natural sciences), comfort (governed by ergonomics), and pleasure ...
Yu Zhao +4 more
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