Fashion

Fashion During COVID-19: Australian Context

Fashion during COVID-19: What impact did COVID-19 have on the Australian fashion industry? How did the industry respond and what steps should it take next to better protect itself against such crisis in the future? In this article, the authors overview the ramifications of the global pandemic in the Australian context, and offer insights from …

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Social Science Bites

Social Science Bites is a podcast series worth bookmarking. Hosted by David Edmonds, the podcast series is a feast for the ears, and a nice break away from engaging with academic research through research articles alone. Here, you have academics sharing insights from their research, and in the process the research comes alive. There is …

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Fashion Fictions

Can we extend and suspend our understandings of the social worlds around us to imagine something different? How can fashion work as a tool to unlock new imaginaries–away from the current realities of social and environmental exploitation under the logic of global capitalism?  Enter Fashion Fictions. Fashion Fictions A project from Amy Twigger Holroyd, explores just …

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Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend

Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend, edited by Andrew Reilly and Ben Barry, is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how constructions of gender connect to relationships with fashion and clothing.  Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend, edited by Andrew Reilly and Ben Barry Description This volume …

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Redressing Weddings

Redressing Weddings is a podcast series based on research from Ilya Parkins & Kenya Gutteridge. Redressing Weddings: Clothing and LGBTQ+ and Feminist Marriers “Redressing Weddings explores the complex and creative ways that queer, trans, and feminist folks think about, acquire, and experience wedding attire. We talk to thoughtful people about everything from suits and gowns …

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Workplace bullying in apparel sector: Bangladesh

Many may assume that working conditions in the garment sector of Bangladesh have improved substantially since the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. Unfortunately, there is a growing body of research that suggests otherwise. In this important article, the authors examine workplace bullying in the context of the intensification of various labour controls, and show why systemic …

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Renting clothes through COVID

Platforms and the pandemic: A case study of fashion rental platforms during COVID‐19 Peer-reviewed research by: Taylor Brydges, Lisa Heinze, Monique Retamal and Claudia E. Henninger Have you heard of the ‘platform economy’? Ever rented, or thought about renting, clothing through one? This article runs through some of the current challenges facing fashion rental platforms, …

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Politics of Patents

Politics of Patents (POP): Re-imagining citizenship via clothing inventions 1820-2020 is a powerful project that explores tensions related to clothing and citizenship. “We aim to bring to life, in archival research, stories and costumes, lesser-known and forgotten attempts by inventors to radically re-imagine or reinforce ideas around citizenship through clothes.” The POP team has made …

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Garment worker rights & fashion’s response to COVID-19

Inequalities across fashion sector highlighted through COVID-19 Peer-reviewed research by: Dr Taylor Brydges and Dr Mary Hanlon The global fashion and apparel industry is unequal by design, with asymmetrical power dynamics impacting garment worker wages and supports. What impact did COVID-19 have on the global fashion and apparel industry? How did international companies and brands …

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How to ‘close the loop’ in fashion?

Closing the loop on take, make, waste: Investigating circular economy practices in the Swedish fashion industry Peer-reviewed research by: Dr Taylor Brydges The global fashion and apparel industry has a longstanding, ongoing, and growing, reputation for exploitation and waste. Drawing on the Swedish fashion industry, this paper shows how interventions to curb environmental impact must …

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