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Shopping
Lately there has been much discussion in the press and media generally about the future fate of the British High Street and retail more generally. The most recent report highlighted last week was how retail chains are closing their shops at a rate of around 30 a day. Changes in our shopping habits with the… →
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Framed! (Fashion Space Gallery)
Cyrus Karibu. I was excited to see the huge pair of wire mesh eyeglasses hanging from the ceiling in the reception area on my arrival to College today. An exciting programme of events in the Fashion Space Gallery, entitled ‘Elements of Fashion’ commences tomorrow with Framed! Contemporary Eyewear in Fashion. Over the coming year, the… →
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Opinion: Fashion On Food
For sometime now I have been interested in the relationship between the fashion and food industries. Over recent years we have become increasingly concerned about what we put into our bodies – the quality and source of our food- yet we still don’t place the same emphasis on what we put next to our skin-… →
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FiFi Awards
These days, any celebrity worth their salt, has at least one fragrance to their name. It was interesting to note when I, along with Louise Wilson of CSM and Wendy Dagworthy of RCA, were judging the best new packaging for male and female fragrances for this week’s FiFi Awards, just how many celebrity’s have used… →
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Better Lives: Expanding our Thinking
The thinking behind fashion as a discipline needs to extend and expand its influence, to counter the traditional stereotype of fashion as a light weight subject, not quite worthy of research and instead to clearly make the case and set the pace for developing areas of research that extend fashion’s influence – issues that will… →
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The Psychology of Consumption
Gaby Hinsliff writing in the Guardian (11 April 2012) challenges us to consider the “viability of the everyday habits to which we feel blithely entitled” and asks the question “when will the stigma now attached to rampant consumerism spread to the over consumption of natural resources?” My visit this week to Sheffield University’s Psychology Department… →