Fashion Style Research Articles

2D Animation Storyboard Design “Mira and the Batik Fairy: Batik Sawat Pengantin Cirebon” for Children

Batik, a cultural artifact full of philosophical values, is now seen as just a part of fashion style and a sweetening element. Many people, especially children, do not understand the symbolic meanings of the aesthetic elements of batik. This problem is commonplace in Indonesia, including Cirebon. As batik centers, only a few schools in Cirebon provide opportunities for their students to learn batik. If the meaning of batik is to be taught to the younger generation, then an approach using new media can be an alternative to introduce it persuasively. One medium that is close and has the potential to introduce batik to children is 2D animation. The research method that will be used is qualitative. The animation process starts with several stages, from collecting data about the batik we want to make into a story theme: Batik Sawat Pengantin Cirebon. Data collection was done by direct observation and interviews. After the data is collected, the next step is to search for story ideas, create scenarios, design visual concepts, and create storyboards. Then, the animation production process can be carried out. This research will focus on the storyboard design part, namely the clean-up storyboard and animatic storyboard, which will guide in making 2D animation.

Genius Loci and/or Zeitgeist?

The article considers the concepts of Genius Loci and Zeitgeist and shows the contradictions between these two aspects and their influence on the development of architecture. It is concluded that the predominance of the Genius of Place forms a gravitation towards sedentarisation and diversity of local architectural forms. The predominance of the Spirit of the Time stimulates the development of uniform international architectural styles that ignore the peculiarities of landscape and scenery. During the twentieth century, the development of architecture was mainly shaped by the Spirit of Time, which gave rise to a multitude of “small styles”, each of which aggressively claims a dominant, monopolistic role on a global scale, but actually exists for a very short time and is quickly replaced by the next fashionable style, equally short-lived. The last “big” style built on a deep philosophical and attitudinal basis is the style of “brutalism – deconstructivism”, which was able to achieve a balance between the Genius of Place and the Spirit of the Time.

The intervention effect of traditional Chinese clothing elements into healing clothing for autistic groups

BackgroundAutism is a developmental disorder that affects an individual’s ability to socialize, communicate, and behave. Autistic groups often face difficulties in social integration and psychological pressure. As a fashion style focusing on comfort, warmth and relaxation, healing clothing is gradually being accepted and loved by people. Traditional clothing elements represent unique Chinese cultural symbols and aesthetic values, and their integration into healing clothing may have a positive intervention effect on autistic groups.Subjects and MethodsThe experiment involved 50 people with common autism as research subjects, half of whom served as the experimental group, wearing healing clothing with elements of traditional Chinese dress. The control group had the same number of people as the experimental group and wore normal healing clothing. The participants’ social interaction, emotional performance and self-identity were observed and recorded for a certain period of time, and the effect was tested by the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire (SASRQ).ResultsAfter wearing the healing clothing with traditional Chinese clothing elements, the experimental group had more active social behaviors and positive emotions, and the average questionnaire score was 10 points higher than that of the control group. However, most of the patients in the control group were still in a depressed state and their activity was not high.ConclusionsThis study proposed to integrate traditional Chinese clothing elements into healing clothing, which has a very good intervention effect on the autistic group, and the research results are expected to provide better support and care for the autistic group.AcknowledgementJiangsu University Philosophy and Social Science Research Project (No. 2020SJA1286).

The Pleasures and Power in a Trans Identity: A “Found Poem” Found in a Discussion About Fashion

This poem represents the qualitative findings from a study on transgender individual’s relationship to fashion. Eight transgender young adults were interviewed about their gender identity and presentation, as well as their use of clothing and fashion style to represent themselves. Within these interviews, all participants shared the pleasures and power they derive from their transgender identities. Using direct quotes, and intentionally arranging phrases and stories found within the interview transcripts, the authors created this found poem. A research poem was chosen to best represent this data as it allows the participants to maintain their power using their voices directly to more authentically represent their pleasures and joys in their identities. Themes that emerged, and are represented by the six color groups of stanzas, which include making connections to others and the queer community (red); gaining a unique perspective of the world (orange); finding opportunities and enjoying fluidity (yellow); enhancing pleasure in the body and physical representation of gender (green); creating power in visibility and representation (blue); and embracing the delight and freedom in a trans identity (purple).

Who Says She’s Not a True Fan? Perceptions of Fan Authenticity Among Gen Z Women Sports Fans

Abstract: While sports have traditionally been perceived as an industry dominated by men, the women’s sports fashion industry is growing both in terms of market power and complexity. This paper explores women’s fanwear fashion choices and others’ perceptions of their fan authenticity among Gen Z sports fans. Through an application of attribution theory, empirical analyses revealed that men generally do not make differential attributions toward a woman’s fan authenticity based on her fashion choice. Women, however, attribute a nuanced variety of motive and authenticity based on fanwear choice. These findings were extended across men’s and women’s sports teams. This research provides a further understanding of Gen Z perceptions of women who wear various styles of sports fan fashion, how others perceive a woman’s fan authenticity, and the degree to which men and women make these judgments.

Transformation Fashion Style used in innovating contemporary Baroque styled fashion

Transformation Fashion Style used in innovating contemporary Baroque styled fashion

A Systematic Review of Modest Fashion Perspectives in the Malaysian Fashion Industry

Modest fashion has become popular over the last decade and is promoted as the latest dressing style. Modest fashion is usually mistaken for Islamic wear, specifically in the Malaysian fashion industry. Malaysians' acceptance of the Islamic lifestyle started long ago, with the continuous adaptation of multiculturalism. This paper aims to determine modest fashion in the context of the Malaysian fashion industry. A systematic review of the published articles and literature was conducted to outline the concept of modest fashion and the relevant issues in modest fashion perspectives. The study identified five innovative components in its conceptual framework: beliefs, fashion expertise, management of business relationships (BRM), fashion culture, and social media influencers originating from modest fashion. The conceptual framework also included related keywords from past research. The findings in this study indicated a positive relationship between modest fashion and faith practices in Islam. The results implied a need for future research to study the acceptance of modest fashion as a dressing style among non-Muslim consumers in Western countries. This paper concludes that modest fashion has evolved into one of the mainstream fashion lines in the fashion world and is no longer seen as a conservative style of fashion.

Indonesian Islamic Intellectual Fashion Style in The Early 20th Century: Photo Narrative Analysis

The development of clothing began to have a variety of functions ranging from the symbol of social status to the symbol of a person's position. Indonesia stretches from the Hindhu-Buddhist, Islam to the modern era Indonesia clothing is very dispersed and coloured by customs and culture that developed in its time. Entering the beginning of the 20th century, with the emergence of Indonesian Intellectuals as a result of the Dutch ethical politics fashion style of Indonesian to be varied. Among Indonesian Islamic Intellectuals, a similar change occurred. Robes or sarongs are often synonymous with the characteristics of a Muslim's clothes are no longer a major symbol. The purpose of this study is to know Indonesian Islamic Intellectuals' clothing style in the early 20th century. The method used is a historical research method consisting of 4 stages, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The study's results found that Western fashion styles influenced the fashion styles of Indonesian Islamic Intellectuals in the early 20th century. Suits, ties, hats and shirts are the common Western clothes these people wear.

The Role of Fashion Influencers in Shaping Consumers’ Buying Decisions and Trends

Abstract With the rise of social media, influencers have gained an important role in the marketing strategies of companies. Their constant presence in social media, determined by the creation and posting of content as well as their permanent interaction with the consumers, has created them a great advantage and credibility in the eyes of consumers. The fact that they are not perceived as a form of marketing, increases their credibility and ability to influence their followers. In this article, we present the results of a research about the consumers’ perception towards fashion influencers depending on age category. Our results show that fashion influencers have the ability to influence the fashion style adopted by the consumers, but not necessarily the buying decision. The fashion style of young consumers is more likely to be shaped by influencers, while people with ages between 25-40 years are least impressed by influencers. In a surprising way, even consumers older than 40 years shape their fashion style based on influencers, but are not influenced directly in their buying decision.

Pulling It Out of a Hat: Picabia, Lanson and Man Ray's Cover for Littérature

The magician’s top hat, standardized handwriting, calligraphic flourish and ink blot of Man Ray’s cover for the new series of Littérature in 1922 open questions of style in both fashion and writing. The cover’s emblem-like visual components resonate not only with questions of style and cultural sophistication in such magazines as Monsieur and La Gazette du bon ton, but also with contemporary Dada squabbles with Cubism, and with a Paris Dada bugbear” Gustave Lanson’s magisterial text, Histoire de la littérature française (1894). In his 1924 Manifeste André Breton deftly capitalized on Lansonism in order to turn it against its own premises and devices. Finally, Man Ray’s emblem points to questions at the time of authenticity, authority and falsity.

Describe Fashion Products via Local Sparse Self-Attention Mechanism and Attribute-Based Re-Sampling Strategy

In this paper, we convert conventional image captioning task into a new paradigm in the fashion domain, fashion item captioning. This task requires the ability of associating a group of item angles and generating a longer and more fine-grained description. To link several images in a more efficient way, we propose a local sparse self-attention mechanism(LSAM), which only enables one region to interact with those in the adjacent area and allows a lighter architecture with fewer layers. To capture more subtle details of the item, an attribute-based re-sampling strategy(ARS) is introduced to enhance the learning on those low-frequency but content-related attribute words. Besides, existing fashion datasets are limited in the quality of annotations and single fashion style. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel dataset for fashion item captioning, termed Fashion Item Captioning Dataset(FICD). FICD provides a meaningful complement to the existing fashion datasets, which comprises 294K images, 62K real-world product descriptions with diverse linguistic styles, rich attributes and categories. It is worth mentioning that we also annotate an attribute-level sentence for each item, which enables the FICD to be used not only for fashion item captioning but also for other fashion-related tasks. Moreover, the complex structure is even more restrictive for application to real-world scenarios. Without bells and whistles, our framework is simply designed with an end-to-end manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our LSAM-ARS. More remarkably, LSAM-ARS achieves state-of-the-art performance on FACAD and FICD datasets, with the CIDEr-D score being increased from 65.4% to 81.8%, 69.8% to 77.4%, respectively.

USTADZAH FASHION STYLE AS NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION AT THE AL-IMAN PUTRI PONDOK PESANTREN PONOROGO

Fashion Style is a form of nonverbal communication. The clothes a person wears can interpret themselves as well as show personality characteristics. The purpose of this study is to explain the purpose of using ustadzah Fashion Style at Al-Iman Putri Ponorogo Islamic Boarding School, and analyze the meaning of Fashion Style used by ustadzah as a means of Nonverbal Communication at Al-Iman Putri Ponorogo Islamic Boarding School. The research method used is a qualitative approach with a descriptive method. Research data was collected by conducting interviews with informants, namely ustadzah Pondok Pesantren Al-Iman Putri who had qualifications as ustadzah who looked attractive and followed fashion trends. The results showed that the use of fashion to communicate nonverbally about his identity. Everyone tries to show their best side and unique side of themselves through the fashion they wear. Ustadzah Pondok Pesantren Al-Iman Putri uses fashion style with the goal: easier to identify, convey a form of self-expression, and the purpose of beauty. Nonverbal Communication through fashion style ustadzah Pondok Pesantren Al-Iman Putri Ponorogo is considered effective because it produces communication results. And from the fashion style displayed, they try to convey their identity, character, class and group.

Masking as a Metaphor for Leadership Crisis in Mike Asukwo’s Opaque Style and Oracle on Lockdown

The presence of metaphors in political cartoons offers insightful pathways for communicating information about societal experiences. This article examines how masking is used as a metaphor to critique Nigeria's leadership crisis using a semiotic analysis of the verbal-visual messages contained in two political cartoons, Opaque Style and Oracle on Lockdown, by prominent Nigerian cartoonist Mike Asukwo. Operating within the contextual frames of opacity and oracular silence, masking is metaphorically applied in the cartoons to show the apparent disconnect between the ruling class and the masses. A connotative reading of the verbal and visual messages employed in the cartoons constructs images that portray political leaders in Nigeria as people who are secretive, deceptive, indifferent, and lacking in empathy. While a comparative view of fashion styles is used to humorously anchor the message and satire in Opaque Style, in Oracle on Lockdown, these are expressed through the use of the oracular practice.

Secondhand clothing purchase intentions: Generation Z’s perspective

PurposeBased on the learning and attitudinal theories, this study aims to investigate the direct effect of two type of experiences, attitude and the indirect impact of fashion innovativeness, materialism and financial pressure on Generation Z’s secondhand clothing (SHC) purchase intention.Design/methodology/approachA total of 180 usable surveys were gathered from Generation Z participants and analyzed by a partial least-square-structural equation model.FindingsThe results show that attitude (SHC hygiene vs SHC fashion style) and past experiences (daily use occasion vs particular use occasion) directly affect SHC purchase intention. Furthermore, materialism, financial pressure and innovativeness drive attitudes toward SHC fashion style.Originality/valueThis study extends the current SHC literature by integrating two dimensions of experience (daily use occasion vs particular use occasion) and attitude (attitude toward SHC hygiene vs attitude toward SHC style).

Hiperrealitas Perspektif Agama di Desa Sei Apung Jaya Kecamatan Tanjung Balai Kabupaten Asahan

This study entitled Hyperreality of Religious Perspective in Sei Apung Jaya Village, Kec. Tanjung Balai Kab. Asahan explains how religion views hyperreality. The development and sophistication of technology today with various kinds of offers in online and real media, makes mothers, teenagers and even children tempted by this. Social status and friendship are seen from how sophisticated the Smartphone is and the style they consider cool and up to date. The K-Pop fashion style is no stranger to seeing teenagers today. The methodology used in this research is field research using a descriptive qualitative approach. Data was collected through interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis was performed using descriptive analysis techniques. Based on the results of the study, it shows that the Sei Apung Jaya village community has a hyperreality attitude in shopping and a hyperreality in using social media. Hyperreality or exaggeration is forbidden in Islam. Many verses and hadiths warn that excess is dangerous and of course Allah SWT does not like excess.

The Research on the Context and Style of Avant-garde Fashion on Chinese Social Media Platforms

The way the general public comprehends, and processes fashion has evolved as a direct result of the proliferation of social media platforms, particularly the growth of the "influencer" profession, which has steadily eroded the once-dominant position of fashion magazines and editors. This study does more than only close the gaps in the knowledge of avant-garde fashion's communication and style; it also delves into the curious phenomena of niche fashion trends shared on Chinese social media. The authors analyzed the contexts of fashion-related influencers on TikTok and Xiaohongshu, like @AHALOLO, @MetaArchive, and @Instantly to fill the gaps in the understanding of fashion subcultures. The study also addressed the phenomenon of "viral" fashion trends on Wechat, Bilibili, and Tiktok. It concluded that the continued existence of labels is primarily attributed to the media's efforts. By increasing brand awareness, audience engagement, customer service, advertising income, and app downloads, media has helped firms keep their operational costs and revenue high. As facilitated by new media, the rapid and varied dissemination of fashion ideas may increase both their societal and consumer worth. The exchange of knowledge made possible by new media is assisting the fashion industry in meeting the demands of its customers. Improved fashion industry demand forecasting and production planning may result from better internal communication and consumer assessment.

The Research on the Characteristics and Development Trend of Futuristic Style Clothing

Futuristic fashion style has been an enduring design style in the field of fashion design since its appearance in the 1960s.Whether it is futuristic fashion clothing or futuristic style, it has unique characteristics and development history. Exploring its characteristics and future development trends has certain value for grasping the popularity of elements and people's aesthetic concepts.In recent years, futuristic styles have frequently appeared in major fashion weeks. Its design elements have been widely used in modern clothing and become a unique fashion trend.This paper takes futuristic fashion style clothing as the research object, explores its development history and fashion characteristics, and analyzes the application and innovation of futuristic style elements in clothing design.Through the research results, its find that the basic characteristics of futuristic style clothing include sense of science and technology, diversified modeling style, color diversity, diversified materials and processes.The author hopes that this research can provide some contributions for future scholars.

The Research on the Female Identity Construction under the Influence of Y2K Culture

In recent years, with the deep influence brought by the Internet application and the COVID-19 epidemic, Y2K style fashion which started in the millennium has come back again, thus forming the Y2K subculture. This culture has a profound meaning and a unique form of expression. In the Y2K fashion trend, women are playing a dominate role. Women's dress spans the dress itself, but also involves politics, culture, gender and other different fields. By studying the influence of Y2K culture on female, people can explore the ideas and changes related to female individual and group identity. Based on this, the author takes the Y2K style represented by Y2K clothing as the foothold, takes the identity as the basis of analysis, and at the same time takes the specific social, cultural and other comprehensive factors into the research perspective, puts the Y2K style under a broader social phenomenon and motivation, and explores the influence of Y2K culture on female identity. The author uses literature reading and in-depth interviews to explore the construction of female identity and the display of female consciousness under the influence of this subculture. Research shows that in terms of women's personal identity, it is mainly manifested in the display of personal aesthetics, pursuit of independence and self-consciousness. In terms of group identity, Y2K culture can highlight female self-choice consciousness, gather their solidarity and express their expectations for a better future.

Conceptual framework of hybrid style in fashion image datasets for machine learning

Fashion image datasets, in which each fashion image has a label indicating its design attributes and styles, have contributed to the achievement of various machine learning techniques in the fashion industry. Computer vision studies have investigated labeling categories (such as fashion items, colors, materials, details, and styles) to create fashion image datasets for supervised learning. Although a considerable number of fashion image datasets has been developed, different style classification criteria exist because of a lack of understanding concerning fashion style. Since fashion styles reflect various design attributes, multiple styles can often be included in a single outfit. Thus, this study aims to build a Hybrid Style Framework to develop a fashion image dataset that can be efficiently applied to supervised learning. We conducted focus group interviews with six fashion experts to determine fashion style categories with which to classify hybrid styles in fashion images. We developed 1,206,931K-fashion image datasets and analyzed the hybrid style convergence. Finally, we applied the datasets to the machine learning model and verified the accuracy of the computer’s ability to recognize style. Overall, this study concludes that the Hybrid Style Framework and developed K-fashion image datasets are helpful, as they can be applied to data-driven fashion services to offer personalized fashion design solutions.

Globalized Luxury Fashion is the Crisis: Kanye West, a structure of feeling, and the case of Louis Vuitton

Globalization, the process of communication and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide, is a central concept in the study of luxury and fashion, both as innovative activity and guide to the future. This article offers readers an encounter with vital developments within globalized luxury fashion and with one of the most important theoretical arguments of the twenty-first century, namely, that globalized luxury fashion is constitutive of the contemporary crisis. In exploring the idea of globalized luxury fashion as integral to the current crisis and its impact, the article traces the American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and luxury fashion designer Kanye West’s (now known simply as “Ye”) beleaguered conflicts with globalized luxury fashion from the point of view of what the Marxist thinker Raymond Williams called “a structure of feeling,” the culture of the present period, or the specific living consequence of all the components in the overall organization. The article concludes with a discussion of Ye’s globalized luxury fashion style through a case study of his work for and ressentiment toward the global luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton and presents an in-depth understanding of globalized luxury fashion which is essential to anyone reading contemporary critical luxury theory.