Ruby Bailey: Making for Oneself, A Regional Fashion Designer Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Fashion Designer

scholarly journals Selly Raby Kane: Surrealist Designer and Social Innovator

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Enrica Picarelli
Keyword(s):  
Interesting Case ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
International Cultures

Selly Raby Kane is a renowned Senegalese fashion designer and artist involved in Africa’s booming art and design movement. Kane is an interesting case study to grasp fashion’s involvement in Africa’s current debate surrounding identity and empowerment through innovation. This article discusses Kane’s designs in light of her contribution not only to contemporary approaches to African fashion that emphasize individuality, but also to effecting change through fashion, examining the ways in which she mixes symbols, signs, and techniques of African and international cultures to inscribe Africa, and Senegal in particular, into the global fashionscape.

The house of Van Dyne: Defining Marvel’s superhero fashion designer

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Geraffo
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics superhero and founding member of The Avengers Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp, has been portrayed as an in-canon fashion designer not just of superhero costumes but also of civilian clothing. Through her continuous usage as a narrative device that functions as an authority on style and taste, the proliferous designs depicted as created by Van Dyne over her almost sixty-year history have expanded to be worn by so many heroes across the Marvel Universe that they subconsciously define our overall conceptions of superhero fashion. This article evaluates Van Dyne’s fictional fashion designs from the perspective of real-world fashion criticism in order to define Van Dyne’s design aesthetic. Through comparisons with key designers and movements within the fashion industry, this article asserts that the history of luxury fashion is the best model for placing Van Dyne designs into context and that the long-standing visual representations of Van Dyne fashions offer a unique case study to explore the narrative implications of luxury fashion within comics. This focus on fashion designs rather than iconographic superhero costumes creates new opportunities to emphasize discussions of the integrality of clothing to conceptions of superhero characterization and identity.

scholarly journals Age Management: What Can we Learn from High-End Luxury Fashion Designer with More than 50 Years of Working Experience?

Organizacija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Grah ◽  
Ema Perme ◽  
Simon Colnar ◽  
Sandra Penger
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
World Population ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Fashion Designer

Abstract Background and Purpose: While the world population is aging, the aim of this study is to bring new knowledge into age management research by investigating the most important factors that encourage older employees to remain in the labour market longer, also after meeting the official retirement age, based on an in-depth qualitative case study of the high-end luxury fashion designer with more than 50 years of working experience. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conducted an inductive case study in fashion industry. Specifically, our case study is build based on the content analysis of secondary data as well as an in-depth interview with the general manager in the fashion and high-end luxury industry in Slovenia. Results: The proposed conceptual model shows key facets, as assigned overarching categories, namely-vitality, intrinsic motivation, adapting, lifelong learning, and positive emotions and therefore contributes to the age management phenomena. Within the presented case study, we found out that the selected facets are the most important factors for the encouragement to remain in the labor market and to ensure flexible retirement processes in dealing with the challenges of an aging population and workforce. Conclusion: Our study contributes to the theory and practice of age management by narrowing our focus on the best practice from selected high-end luxury fashion industry designer in Slovenia. What can we learn from high-end luxury fashion designer with more than 50 years of working experience? As the presented case study cannot be generalized to population, the presented case contributes to the field of age management and empowers people to rethink and stay active after meeting the official retirement age.

Christoph Drecoll: Rediscovering the Viennese Worth

Costume ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-206
Author(s):  
Birgit Haase ◽  
Adelheid Rasche
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Material Culture Studies ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Joint Research Project ◽  
Fashion Designer

The once illustrious name of the German-born couturier Christoph Drecoll (1851–1939) is nowadays almost forgotten. The information referring to his name and fashion house in fashion encyclopaedias as well as on online sites is limited, vague, inaccurate and partially contradictory. Many of the discrepancies derive from the fact that different companies used the name Drecoll at the same time. This situation has led to misinterpretations of the historical circumstances and to incorrect attributions of existing clothing in costume collections. This article outlines the complex story of the life and work of the fashion designer Christoph Drecoll with crucial new findings, resulting from a joint research project in progress. Based on intensive archival and material culture studies in European and American collections, the case study of Christoph Drecoll not only sheds light on his almost forgotten fashion house, but also illustrates basic economic, aesthetic and social principles in the context of the international fashion business around the turn of the twentieth century.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Bergen ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

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