Browsing by Subject "fashion"

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    Depictions of Empowerment? How Indian Woman are Represented in Vogue India and India Today Woman
    (2016-08) Singh, Monica
    Vogue India and India Today Woman have both taken strong positions on empowering women. However with only three percent of Indians having access to a computer with Internet and only 47 percent having access to a television, how are these magazines empowering women and spreading the word? This study analyzes depictions of empowerment through Vogue India and India Today Woman by breaking apart the covers into categories and defining whether these covers fall into spectrum 1, style and material, or spectrum 2, goals and achievements. Results indicate that Vogue India has the tendency to fall into one side of the spectrum and put emphasis in material goods and style; whereas, India Today Woman falls on the opposite spectrum and puts more emphasis on goals and achievements while touching upon all aspects of a woman's life. India Today Woman found a medium, which needs to be a format followed by other companies in developing nations like India.
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    Fashion Speaks: A Process Paper for WEARING JAPAN, an installation of fashion art
    (2014-12) Koster, Kelly
    Japan and the U.S. share a history of pulling in “outsider” ideas to reinvent their cultures. In the mid-to-late-nineteenth-century, Japan ushered in a market economy and American technology while the West developed an obsession with kimonos, woodblock prints, and anything "oriental." More recent cultural exports like anime, sushi, and kawaii (cute) fashion continue to shape American culture while America continues to influence Japan. Because both countries have powerful consumerist economies, their contemporary interactions produce vibrant cross-pollinations. I created an installation of fashion art to show what this looks like, and position globalized fashion as theatrical and wearable. As the world engages in international trade, and as cultural aesthetics are blended and reinterpreted, national and individual identities may shift. In an interconnected world, how do we fashion ourselves?
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    Her Wardrobe
    (University of Minnesota. Agricultural Extension Service, 1964) Scheid, Athelene
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    Her Wardrobe (Revised 1974)
    (University of Minnesota. Agricultural Extension Service, 1974) Scheid, Athelene
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    Intersections Connect: Wearable Arts Working Collectively at the Local Level
    (2018-07) Gramann II, D J
    This project focuses in the commonalities in the need for skill building, knowledge expansion, and access to resources related to garment making disciplines including, but not limited to home and industrial sewing, fashion, costuming, upcycling and Cos-play. These disciplines are brought together under the umbrella term wearable art. To gain access to members and data, a partnership was established with Textile Center, a national nonprofit fiber arts organization. The themes of art versus craft, educating the audience, self-expression, aura, and the conceptual framework of dress from the literature review are all echoed in the findings and bring insight to the challenges experienced at the practitioner level.