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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Fashion Designer.
1. Oscar Night in Hollywood : Fashioning the Red-Carpet from the Roosevelt Hotel to International Media
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the red-carpet phenomenon from a historical perspective, seeking to understand how the Academy Awards’ red-carpet became the most prominent fashion show in media culture. The connections between Hollywood and the fashion industry predate the inception of the ceremony, and so does the role of Hollywood actresses as trendsetters. LÄS MER
2. 'Dior without Dior' : Tradition and Succession in a Paris Couture House, 1957-2015
Sammanfattning : This study explores how the French luxury fashion house, Dior has mobilised its power over a 70 year period through the constructed persona of the designer, who functions as a figurehead, together with the brand’s heritage. It investigates how the house of Dior reinvented itself after the death of its founder in 1957 through the charismatic succession of a series of designers; Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, and finishes in 2015 with the departure of Raf Simons. LÄS MER
3. On seeing : in fashion design
Sammanfattning : In fashion design, the designer strives for the development of ideas in view of significant visual goals. The process of specifying and developing ideas is a highly visual process. LÄS MER
4. Acts of seeing : seeing as a methodological tool in fashion design
Sammanfattning : Fashion design can be described as perpetually having to produce new suggestions of dress. The foundational tool for realising such propositions in a precise and focused way is the act of seeing. LÄS MER
5. Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. LÄS MER