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- 1From:Design WeekNew Look, the UK's third largest women's retailer, is relaunching its entire gift range across three core markets with a revised identity and packaging created by NB Studio. It is the first time New Look has had one...
- 2From:Design WeekFiorelli, the luxury fashion accessories business owned by Lunan Group, is set to relaunch its branding with RDC Foley Cooke, as it seeks to update and broaden the brand's appeal. RDC Foley Cooke is undertaking a...
- 3From:Design WeekBravissimo, the lingerie, swimwear and womenswear retailer, has appointed The Nest to undertake a series of design projects. The move follows a two-way pitch, and comes as the retailer looks to open a London flagship...
- 4From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 7)WOMENSWEAR chain Autonomy is aiming to shed its factory outlet, value brand image and expand into the high street for the first time with two stores, in Guildford and Bath. The company currently has six factory...
- 5From:Clothing Cultures (Vol. 2, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Women Fashion Power: Not a Multiple Choice, Design Museum, London, UK, 29 October 2014-26 April 2015
According to London's Design Museum (2014-2015), this exhibition 'offers an unprecedented look at how princesses, models, CEOs, Dames and designers have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world'.... - 6From:Fashion, Style, & Popular Culture (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Although she is arguably regarded as France's most celebrated designer, Chanel did not train within the classical Parisian haute couture system. This article examines the onetime milliner and couture...
- 7From:Financial Executive (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWomen's clothing manufacturer Liz Claiborne controller Elaine H. Goodell has been able to achieve a 30% cost savings in operations by combining training and technology with activity-based management. With the support of...
- 8From:Fashion Theory (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn this article, I argue that images of muffs in several portraits of actresses from the 1780s and 1790s can be read as ambiguous cultural signs that are analogous to the ambivalent position of actresses as female...
- 9From:Fashion Theory (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Ghana's Ashanti Region, there is a certain category of woman commonly called preman (pl. premanfoo), a word that is the local version of the English play-man or playboy. Despite this word's seemingly male cast,...
- 10From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2019 SEP 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- The professional attire collected at the Suits for Shelters launch party and throughout Mary Kay's U.S. Seminar...
- 11From:Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Issue 74) Peer-ReviewedI first became interested in Vanessa Bell's dressmaking project when I read Judith Collins's The Omega Workshops, which features a black and white photograph of Bell modeling an Omega dress of her own design. (1) I was...
- 12From:Design WeekArcadia-owned fashion retailer Evans is redesigning its Oxford Street shop using an in-house team. 'It will be a totally different store,' says a spokeswoman. The shop is due to re-open in October. Copyright: Centaur...
- 13From:Design Week'Tis the season for the high street to drown in elves, reindeer and synthetic snow. To buck the trend, fashion boutique Browns has enlisted six illustrators to put their own spin on storefront festivities, says Dominic...
- 14From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2017 OCT 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- In the fight against breast cancer, plus-size apparel retailer Lane Bryant recognizes that there is strength in...
- 15From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs with all dance style clothing, women's traditional cloth has evolved into elaborate craftsmanship. This style, with ribbon-work patterns on the skirt and matching ribbon-work on the wearer's shawl, shows the beauty...
- 16From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 54, Issue 38)Byline: AISHA LABI Fashionable and Islamically appropriate are two sartorial modes that, in Western perceptions at least, rarely overlap. But the concepts inspired students in Kimberly Guthrie's fashion design and...
- 17From:Human Ecology (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"It was a wonderful example of the use of innovative technology to support design work," Ashdown said. "Instead of just scaling up something designed for a different-sized woman, or thinking about clothing as something...
- 18From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedImages of scantily clad women are used by advertisers to make products more attractive to men. This "sex sells" approach is increasingly employed to promote ethical causes, most prominently by the animal-rights...
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- 20From:Textile (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI took a trip to Pakistan in search of fabric. It wasn't just any old fabric I was after, but the special kind that so many relatives brought back from their visits. Such amazing cloth, so easily obtained, if--I was...