The fashion industry remains as one of the most highly competitive industries where many designers may find it difficult to establish sustainable businesses. Navigating through business and ensuring success, growth long-term sustainability were generally considered be ultimate goal biggest challenge continue struggle with. This study was aimed determine all key factors that are integral contrib...

The introduction maps the emerging field of critical fashion studies, whereby ‘critical’ in this context marks networks influence and overlap between Cultural Studies Fashion Studies...

To facilitate intercultural collaboration, we designed the language service infrastructure called the Language Grid, which allows users to create language services from existing language resources and combine them to develop multilingual environments adapted to their problem domains. Based on seven years experience in operating the language service infrastructure, this paper proposes the Open L...

Fashion magazines contain a number of photographs of fashion models, and their clothing coordinates serve as useful references. In this paper, we propose a recommender system for clothing coordinates using full-body photographs from fashion magazines. The task is that, given a photograph of a fashion item (e.g. tops) as a query, to recommend a photograph of other fashion items (e.g. bottoms) th...

Fashion is a collective cultural phenomenon generated by the individual but linked to actions of a very large number of garment designers aiming to create distinctive but similar clothes. This paper outlines the mental processes, behavioural strategies and working patterns through which fashion and knitwear designers actively construct the contexts – their visual environments as well as memorie...

Fashion technology is an expanding field, yet the question of how technology can be considered fashionable remains unexplored. According to fashion theories, mediation plays a fundamental role in transforming clothing items into fashionable garments. In this study, we explored how fashion films, as one of the most important fashion media in the industry today, could make wearable design concept...