Category: Fashion Education
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Planned #Obsolescence: Fast Fashion’s inspiration
We tend to lament the fact that our mobile phones are seemingly built in a way that their peak performance will expire after about two years. Officially, there’s a term for this: Planned Obsolescence. Anyone notice how our clothes’ vibrancy and quality don’t last, either? 1340 words; 6 mins readUpdated 5 Nov 2018 Above featured…
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In fashion, “Good ol’ days..” has real meaning
Increased fetishising of cheap clothes has led us to prioritise quantity over quality. With this degradation in the fashion landscape, has fashion itself lost its meaning? Grandma might have a thing or two to say about it. 1529 words; 7 min readUpdated 5 Nov 2018 Above featured photo: http://missowl.com The phrase “fast fashion” refers to low-cost…
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We are dumb consumers – do you know how your clothes are made?
As a society, we should be ashamed of ourselves. We haven’t really tried very hard to reduce our impact of consuming fashion, because we don’t even know how our clothes made.
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Middle-Class Fashion, Who?
Our middle class is no longer. With the tightening of our household budget, everyone wants cheap. We don’t sacrifice looking good, so enter Fast Fashion. 461 words; 2 min readUpdated 15 September 2018. In 2002, (now Sir) Philip Green bought the Arcadia Group for £850 million. In 2005, his star brand Topshop accounted for £1…