Fashion Design for Living (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gwilt, Alison

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and design professionals. It is primarily targeted at students in fashion design, clothing and textiles, design/manufacture, textile design, and product design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317673330
• Artikelnr.: 41836507

Autorenporträt

Alison Gwilt is a fashion design academic, consultant and researcher exploring the integration of sustainable strategies across the lifecycle of fashion products. Her work focuses on the use of positive/sustainable design interventions within the fashion industry that challenge the current production and consumption paradigm. She has published widely in the field of sustainability and fashion, and her outputs include books, chapters, conference papers and articles published in the press and a number of international publications.Alison is Reader in Fashion and Sustainability at Sheffield Hallam University, UK Her books include Shaping Sustainable Fashion (edited with Timo Rissanen) published by Earthscan in 2011, A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion for Bloomsbury (2014) and forthcoming, Fashion Design for Living for Routledge (2014). As a curator and practitioner, she has been involved in a number of exhibitions and received competitive funding from organizations such as the Australian NSW State Government's Environmental Trust. Alison has a degree in fashion and textiles from Central St Martins College of Art in London, and a PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne, and her career in academia includes managing courses, researching and lecturing in fashion and textiles design in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. She currently holds the post of Reader in Fashion and Sustainability in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part 1: Fashion for Existence 1.
Fashioning Publics: The Socially Responsive Design Practice of Vexed
Generation 2. Fashion and Textiles Design for Wellbeing: Value Adding
Through Practice-Led Transdisciplinary Design Research 3. Design for Ageing
Well 4. Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing The Clothes We Wear 5.
Fashion Design and Fashion Cooperatives: A Case Study of the Lydia Lavin
Brand Part 2: Fashion for Engagement 6. Fashion People: Participating and
Producing Fashion 7. Open Design and Digital Fabrication in Fashion 8. Form
Empowered by Touch, Movement and Emotion 9. Fashion Design and Disability
10. Illuminative Smart Fashion. Index