Fashion Themes Research Articles

Personal Branding pada Konten Feeds Fashion Blogger @tamaradai dan @elikaboen di Instagram

Thanks to the emergence of Instagram as a social media platform, the popularity of fashion bloggers has been increasing, and they have utilized the power of Instagram to build their personal branding based on their expertise in specific fields. By effectively building and promoting their personal branding, fashion bloggers can enhance their visibility, attract new followers, and generate higher income and engagement rates. This research aims to analyze the content of two prominent fashion bloggers, @tamaradai and @elikaboen, on Instagram. The study examined 128 photo posts obtained through sample size calculation. Hypothesis testing was conducted using quantitative descriptive statistical analysis and Pearson Chi-Square test with IBM SPSS software version 26. Data collection involved observing image-based fashion blogger content and manually coding the data using a coding book. The findings indicate that the fashion theme is the most dominant in the content feeds of both fashion bloggers, and the majority of posts do not contain hashtags or mentions of brands or other entities. The statistical analysis results demonstrate a significant relationship between certain image content categories and the external relationship category, particularly in terms of tag usage and mentions with '@'.

Discourse Practices and Identity Remodeling of Hosts on Live Streaming Platforms under the Background of Informatization

Abstract In the age of informationization, webcasting has gradually become an essential form of media. On the live broadcasting platform, hosts transmit information through discourse practice and continuously reshape their identities, a phenomenon of great significance in both academic and practical fields. Qualitative and quantitative methods analyze the host’s discourse characteristics and identity construction process. It is found that the moderator’s discourse patterns are mainly affectionate, humorous, simple and commonplace, and the role of discourse practice in the construction of identity is revealed through Foucault’s discourse theory and the SMCR communication model. The empirical analysis shows that the hosts’ discourse themes in beauty and fashion account for up to 20% of the total, and enhance the communication effect through multimodal discourse (visual and auditory). The study also found that hosts reshape their identities through live discourse, such as transforming traditional TV anchors into online KOLs, to portray a pro-people and professional image. Hosts realize effective identity reshaping on live broadcast platforms through discourse practice, profoundly impacting emerging marketing models such as live bandwagon.

Professional narratives on continued training in the laboral landscape of social education.

Labor consolidation is not a sufficient criterion to abandon the need for the qualification and requalification of professionals, especially in the field of education, which must respond to the uncertainties of society in the light of trends and advances incorporated in pedagogical research. The present qualitative study analyzes the training demands of social education professionals from their own perspective, using their own stories in a semi-structured interview format conducted with), key informants from governmental and non-governmental organizations in southeastern Spain, specifically from the autonomous community of the region of Murcia. According to the results, the most frequent and significant formative limitations are those referred to in the field of social policies, legislative training, administrative processing, specialized work in specific sectors or collectives, and mediation. Similarly, the results reveal fashion themes (mental health, gender) and reiteration of non-exclusive conditioners of social education. These are extrapolable to other areas, such as the increasing bureaucracy and complexity in the proceedings as common places in the reflection of professionals with their own initiative and commitment to their own updating that is associated with a reflective criticism of their own professionalization. The diverse range of responses and subjects, as indicated by the numerous descriptors needed for the categorization and their respective percentages, leads us to conclude that ongoing professional training does not encourage excessive specialization. Instead, it necessitates offering a broad range of training adjusted to the versatility of situations.

Способы пополнения словаря области моды в английском языке

The aim of the study is to identify the methods of formation of English-language neologisms in the fashion sphere that are relevant at the present stage of language development. The paper describes the basic characteristics and criteria for determining new language units. Classifications of neologisms in terms of the criteria of novelty, form and formation of such naming units are presented. The work also analyses the English-language neologisms of the fashion sphere in order to identify their ways and models of formation. The scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the work analyses the ways of adding new words and phrases to the English-language vocabulary of the rapidly developing fashion sphere over the past five years. As a result, it has been found that during the specified period of time, the creation of new naming units of the considered sphere of human life occurs in the traditional way for the language. The obtained quantitative indicators show that the most productive ways of forming the English-language neologisms of fashionable themes are compounding and blending, while the least productive way in this case is borrowing. New phrases in the fashion sphere are formed according to the polysemantic Noun + Noun model, which is traditionally common in the English language. The paper concludes by identifying the prospects for further research in the field under consideration.

Pelatihan Kewirausahaan Bidang Fashion Pada Pelajar SMK Bhakti Nusantara: Seni Lukis Kain

Abstract: The target and outcome of this community service activity are to provide skills training using cloth painting techniques that can be practiced easily, with the finished product being t-shirts that can be used daily, and have selling power as a business product. The training approach uses simulation and practicum methods, as well as discussions on fashion themes that will be applied to clothing. After the training activities, Student XI of the Vocational High School of SMK Bhakti Nusantara, showed their interest and talent in the fashion field, combined by a good knowledge of painting techniques on cloth media.

Flexible Work Agreements: Here to Stay but Uneven in Equity and Promoting Success

A Review of:Hosoi, M., Reiter, L., & Zabel, D. (2021). Reshaping Perspectives on Flexible Work: The Impact of COVID-19 on Academic Library Management. portal: Libraries and the Academy 21(4), 695-713. doi:10.1353/pla.2021.0038 Objective – The article seeks to assess the current state and the future of flexible work agreements (FWAs) in research libraries. Design – The authors held semi-structured interviews with 31 individuals in library leadership roles. Setting – Large American or Canadian research libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects – 31 individuals in senior leadership roles (ex: associate dean, director) at the top 50 research libraries in North America (based on the Association of Research Libraries Investment Index). Methods – Interviews were conducted and recorded over Zoom with participant, investigator, and note taker. Investigators developed a quantitative coding instrument based on a selection of the interviews, then coded all interviews independently. Coded data were evaluated for broader themes in a collaborative fashion. Main Results – All participants had employees working partially or fully remotely at the time of the interviews. Half of participants observed gains in productivity during the pandemic, although even more commented on technology challenges. Other positives included remote project success and more inclusive meetings; other negatives included caregiving and job duties that did not allow for remote work. Conclusion – While FWAs were widely available pre-pandemic, they were not normative. The majority of participants think flexible work will only increase in libraries and will influence recruitment and retention of employees, as well as utilization of library space.

The Theme of Fashion

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the domain of World Wide Web site development and also put forward a methodology to assist with this process. These methodologies have their proselytizers and those who decry the constraints and rigidity of prescriptive frameworks. The methodology presented here is unintended to be a panacea for the problems of web development; rather it is hoped it will provide a functional framework for guiding the process. The main study points out that the demographic profile of customers, the online seller of the product, the type of products to be purchased, and the characteristics of online shopping websites had an optimistic impact on the intention and online shopping behavior of the customers. The paper would help the marketers to implement ways and means to pull online shoppers. It will be helpful for the customer to understand the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping. Keywords: Proselytizers ,rigidity ,unintended ,demographic ,optimistic .

The effects of neoliberal social policy on the institutional selectivity of the Hungarian K-12 educational system from a socio-legal perspective

AbstractThere is a general consensus in mainstream education sciences and sociology that the Hungarian educational system has long been highly selective. 1 Although the majority of Hungarian society has high hopes that the educational system promotes social mobility, empirical studies show that the problem of selectivity has not been handled effectively, regardless of the multitude of changes in education policy in past decades. 2 It has become a very fashionable theme in the past few years to denounce the detrimental effects of neoliberalism on the educational system for this failing. 3 We, however, argue that neoliberalism has only played a secondary role in the controversial evolution of educational policy, while its chief causes may rather be found in ambiguous education legislation.As a result of the aforementioned controversy, the impact of neoliberal economic policy on the institutional selectivity of education needs to be clarified. Accordingly, this paper aims to highlight the main patterns of how the neoliberal idea has affected education, as well as its side effects on social mobility.

Fabrics Recommendation for Fashion Design by Using Fuzzy Logic and Rough Sets

Background: Fabric is one of the key and vital design factors in fashion design. However, selection of relevant fabrics is rather complex for designers and managers due to the complexity of criteria at different levels. Introduction: In this paper, we propose a new fabric recommendation model in order to quickly realize fabric selection from non-technical fashion features only and predict fashion features from any fabric technical parameters. This approach is extremely significant for fashion designers who do not completely master fabric technical details. It is also very useful for fabric developers who have no knowledge on fashion markets and fashion consumers. Method: The proposed fabric recommendation model has been built by exploiting designers’ professional knowledge and consumers’ preferences. Concretely, we first use fuzzy sets for formalizing and interpreting measured technical parameters and linguistic sensory properties of fabrics and then model the relation between the technical parameters and sensory properties by using rough sets. Next, we model the relation between fashion themes and sensory properties using fuzzy relations. By combining these two models, we establish a hybrid model characterizing the relation between fashion themes and technical parameters. Result: The proposed model has been validated through a real fabric recommendation case for designer’s specific requirements. We can find that the proposed model is efficient since the averaged value of prediction errors is 8.57%, which does not exceed 10% (generally considered as allowable range of human perception error). Conclusion: The proposed model will constitute one important component for establishing an intelligent recommender system for garment design, enabling to support innovations in textile/apparel industry in terms of mass customization and e-shopping.

The Emergence of Violence and the Terror of Being Born in Murakami’s Coin Locker Babies

Modern poetics imposed the image of Nietzsche’s split Subject, with the disaggregated self-emerging as dilemmatic subjectivity and its aesthetic culmination in the “dehumanisation of art.” Nietzsche’s philosophy provided postmodern poetics with the Subject as “fiction,” subjected to a complex process of self-multiplication and self-reflection (Ihab Hassan). The loss of the autonomy of the Subject as a “fashionable theme” (Frederic Jameson), combined with its multiplication into simulacra (Jean Baudrillard) and the abolition of reference, allow the Object to storm the places of its absence. The multiplicitous nature under which the image of subjectivity is formed is a possible solution for the issue of the Subject. Another solution would be inflicting violence upon the Subject, replaced by the corporeality of the Object, by the body, to the point of its destruction, or to the ultimate point of abjectness. My essay will use Murakami Ryū’s novel Coin Locker Babies to examine its author’s views on the Object-Subject relation, on the Subject as an Object (corporeality) and on the forms through which the Object inflicts violence upon the Subject.

Straight eye for the queer ad: attitudes, skepticism, inferences of manipulative intent and willingness to buy

PurposeThis study aims to provide a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of consumer attitudes toward brands and attitudes toward a series of fashion oriented print advertisements with and without homosexual themes, on consumer willingness to buy from brands. The influence of consumer skepticism and inferences of manipulative intent (IMI) as moderators between these variables is also investigated. This study also closes various research gaps identified within the literature.Design/methodology/approachA self-administered survey instrument was designed using established scales to collect data through an online questionnaire. Fashion advertisements namely one advertisement representing homosexual content and one heterosexual advertisement were used in the study within subjects (e.g. male and female) design. Statistical techniques, specifically factor analysis, regressions and multiple regressions are used to analyze the data.FindingsThe findings indicate significant and positive relationships between attitude toward the brand and advertisement as well as willingness to buy for both males and females. The moderation analyses noted that consumer skepticism enhanced the relationship between attitude toward the brand and attitude toward the advertisement, but weakened the relationship between attitude toward the advertisement and willingness to buy, only for the female cohort. Similarly, a weakening effect of IMI was noted on the relationship between attitude toward the advertisement and willingness to buy.Research limitations/implicationsThe current study contributes to the literature on homosexual imagery in advertising. In applying the persuasion knowledge model, the current study demonstrates the applicability of the model to homosexual themes in fashion advertising while accounting for the effects of consumer skepticism and IMI.Practical implicationsThe current research highlights the importance of accounting for gender differences when introducing homosexual themes in fashion advertisements. Heterosexual males and females differ in their attitudes toward homosexual themes in fashion advertising, as well as how skeptical they are with regards to the motives of the advertiser. While a great deal of acceptance is already present in today's society, these differences still need to be accounted for in future fashion advertising campaigns.Originality/valueThe present study represents an examination of consumer responses to a series of fashion advertisements in Australia and provides useful implications to marketers of fashion products. The study further contributes to the literature on consumer skepticism and IMI with regards to cause-related advertising.

Augmented Reality in The New York Times: the experience of editorial content according to Brazilian audiences

<p>This article analyzes and seeks to reflect on Brazilian users’ immersive experience with content available in virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), on the New York Times. The goal is to verify the perception of the immersive news stories made available by the newspaper in two articles that deal with fashion and behavior: “Augmented Reality: David Bowie in three dimensions”, published on March 20, 2018, which examines the costumes of the musician and composer based on the catalog of the exhibition “David Bowie Is” and “Ashley Graham: unfiltered”, published on September 5, 2018, which explores digital imaging resources to illustrate the model’s interview on the plus size fashion theme and acceptance of the body. The text begins with a literature review and research on the adoption of such technology by journalistic vehicles and proposes a study based on the investigation of the meaning/pertinence of the simulations for the interpretation of contexts and themes in journalistic matters. Additionally, the text questions how these technological resources affect the processes of communication and perception, through a research dynamic with a group of Brazilian volunteers, to verify how these new technological resources explore the degree of immersion and the strategies of these experiences, with the preliminary results described at the end.</p>

POTENSI HALAL TOURISM DI MASJID NASIONAL AL-AKBAR SURABAYA

The purpose of this study was to determine the potential of halal food, Muslim clothing, Islamic finance in the Al-Akbar Mosque as a tourist attraction. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study strategy. The research method used was a case study with a descriptive qualitative approach. This study uses interviews as the primary data collection method. The scope of this research focuses on administrators, visitors, and traders at the Al-Akbar National Mosque in Surabaya. The results of the study found that the theme of food, fashion, and finance at the Al-Akbar National Mosque in Surabaya has been properly organized to make the Al-Akbar National Mosque tour as a modern Islamic tourKeywords: Halal tourism, Halal food, Muslim fashion, Islamic finance

An interactive knowledge-based recommender system for fashion product design in the big data environment

In this paper, we originally propose an interactive, knowledge-based design recommender system (IKDRS) for relevant personalised fashion product design schemes with their virtual demonstrations for a specific consumer. This system enables the iterative interaction between virtual product demonstration and the designer’s professional knowledge and perception in order to find the best existing design solution, i.e. combination of basic garment elements. To develop this system, the anthropometric data and designer’s perception of body shapes are first acquired by using a 3D body scanning system and a sensory evaluation procedure. Next, an instrumental experiment is realised for measuring the technical parameters of fabrics and five sensory experiments are carried out in order to acquire design knowledge. The acquired data are used to classify body shapes and model the relations between human bodies, fashion themes and design factors by using fuzzy techniques. From these models, we set up an ontology-based design knowledge base, including key data and relevant relation models. This knowledge base can be updated in a big data environment by progressively learning from new design cases. On this basis, we propose an interactive, personalised design recommender system. This system works through a newly proposed design process: consumers’ emotional requirement identification – design schemes generation – recommender – 3D virtual prototype display and evaluation – design factors adjustment. This process can be performed repeatedly until the designer is satisfied. The proposed system has been validated through a number of successful real design cases.

Color Theme--based Aesthetic Enhancement Algorithm to Emulate the Human Perception of Beauty in Photos

Fine Art Photography is one of the most popular art forms, which creates lasting impressions that elicit various human emotional reactions. Photo aesthetic enhancement aims at improving the aesthetic level of the photo to please humans by updating color appearance or modifying the geometry structure of objects within that photo. Even though several aesthetic enhancement methods have been proposed, to our knowledge, there is no research to explore, highlight, and accentuate photos’ intrinsic aesthetic value to elicit a stronger response from the human observer about the photos’ theme. To meet this challenge, a new multimedia technology called automatic color theme--based aesthetic enhancement (CT-AEA) is proposed by leveraging big online data to perform timely collection and learning of humans’ current aesthetic perception-behavior over photos and color themes in art, fashion, and design. Unlike existing aesthetic enhancement that examines the composition, such as the geometric structure of the image contents and color/luminance-related (color tone and luminance distribution) characteristics, this CT-AEA takes into consideration the importance of a suitable color theme, namely a set of dominant colors for the design when assessing the aesthetic appearance of a photo. This algorithm is composed of (1) utilizing the knowledge gained from the human evaluator's perception of beauty from existing online datasets, rather than simply applying prior existing knowledge of color harmony theory; (2) developing a new color theme difference equation that exhibits order-invariance and percentage-sensitive properties; (3) designing an optimal color theme recommendation to maximize the aesthetic performance, while minimizing the color modification cost to solve the problems of color inconsistencies and distortion. Experimental results, quantitative measure, and comparison tests demonstrate the algorithm's effectiveness, advantages, and potential for use in many color-related art and design applications.

Sustainable fashion themes in luxury brand storytelling: The sustainability fashion research grid

ABSTRACT“Sustainable fashion”, also known as “eco fashion”, is a part of the growing design, manufacturing, and consumption philosophy and trend toward system maintainability. The goal of system maintainability is to create regularity which is supportable indefinitely in terms of human impact on the environment and social responsibility. Sustainable fashion is an alternative trend against fast fashion. The severe environmental damage that the fashion industry firms and consumers cause now is the main rationale for embracing sustainable fashion – following the petroleum industry, the fashion industry is the second largest cause of pollution worldwide. Specific sustainable fashion trends are identifiable that focus on nurturing the reduction of the pollution caused by fashion. These trends include innovative behavior by a growing number of firms and segments of fashion consumers. Relevant literature identifies specific sustainability topics requiring the most attention by firms in the fashion industry include the following top two: promoting sustainable fashion thinking and achieving ethical/responsible production is supply chains. Attention among scholars to the issue of how to accomplish sustainable fashion objectives is growing.

Periodicals of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1950-1980s as a Tool for Influence on Fashion and Everyday Life

The article deals with the mechanisms of periodicals’ impact on fashion and everyday life in the Ukrainian SSR. The activity of censorship boards to control the content of periodicals is revealed. It focuses on the mainstreaming of the fashion theme in the second half of the 20th century and analyzes its coverage on the example of the most popular and diverse magazines of the USSR (“Radianska zhinka”, “Perets”, “Krasa i moda”). The conclusion was drawn that Ukrainian magazines actively used their tools to form “necessary” ideas and place “correct” emphasis about fashion.

Analysis of the preppy look design as shown in the domestic men’s wear collection

The purpose of this study is to supply available data for men's fashion design planning by analyzing the trend and design tendency of the preppy look in the domestic men's collection. In the men's collection of Seoul fashion week from 2011 S/S to 2015 S/S, 494 photos judged to be the preppy look by three design specialists were chosen in Seoul fashion week and style.com's web-site. Design analyses were compiled based on year, season, brands, item, color, material, and silhouette. The preppy look was found often in S/S season, three piece combinations were the most common, and H, I silhouettes were also popular. Refined black and refreshing orange were used with traditional preppy colors like navy, beige, gray, and white. Contrast color arrangement and neutral, moderate tones were seen repeatedly. Two-thirds of fabrics were pattern-less with clean, bulky, and soft textures. Coordinating accessories like hats, backpacks, books, headsets were used frequently. Among the various preppy fashion types, there were 'traditional preppy' faithful to tradition, 'sophisticated preppy' with refined semi-formal look, 'sportive preppy' with active sports sense, and 'natural preppy' with natural and comfortable senses. In a contemporary preppy look, traditional and practical senses are combined with casual and sportive pieces. This study can provide the data for design planning, interpreting, and applying the fashion themes along with contemporary sensibilities since the preppy look is based on cultural history.

헨릭 빕스코브 컬렉션에 나타난 패션 인스톨레이션의 표현 특성

The aim of this study is to review the creative fashion installation of Henrik Vibskov, Danish designer. Its intention is to contribute useful information for more innovative fashion presentation. As a research method, document and case study were performed and his collections from 2004 F/W to 2016 S/S were analyzed. In fashion installation, the designer puts objects in meaningful spaces in order to convey a certain message, to make an integrated artwork, and to interact with spectator. It has been used in fashion exhibitions, as well as in the set design of fashion performance and fashion show. The results were as follows. Henrik Vibskov's fashion installation has three features, which are 1)conceptual theme approach that communicates a twisted and metaphoric message, with a poetic and interesting show title, 2) surrealistic scenography that plays with fragmentation of the human body, clustering of plastic and symbolic objects, innovative color transformations, and visual trickery between figures and the background, and 3) setting for multisensory performance that makes spectators interact by making artistic objects and surroundings, which stimulates the five senses. Henrik Vibskov's fashion installation can exist as an independent artwork, and not just as a supporting piece for a fashion show. It has both artistic and fashionable values, and can be an effective fashion presentation communicating his conceptual fashion themes.

Tweeting About Prostate and Testicular Cancers: What Are Individuals Saying in Their Discussions About the 2013 Movember Canada Campaign?

Effective and persuasive health campaigns are an important tool for promoting cancer prevention education. The 2013 Movember Canada campaign presented an opportunity to raise awareness and funds about men's health with a particular focus on prostate and testicular cancers. The Movember campaign encouraged participants to talk about men's health (including prostate and testicular cancers) and had a strong presence on social media sites such as Twitter in November 2013. The objective of this study was to analyze tweets about the 2013 Movember Canada for underlying themes in order understand what those discussions were about. A directed content analysis methodology was used to analyze 2400 tweets. Tweets were read and coded for overt and latent themes in an iterative fashion until saturation of themes occurred. The major themes identified in the tweets were fundraising as a priority (34%), making a change to men's health (18%), the campaign as a moustache contest rather than a charity (26%), the use of masculine metaphors/imagery (9%), and the role of women as moustache supporters (4%). Findings from Twitter suggest that users rarely associate their campaign efforts with prostate and/or testicular cancer in public online conversations about the 2013 Movember Canada campaign.