| dc.description.abstract | Fashion refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially
the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and
belonging to a community. Importantly, fashion can drive unsustainable consumption of
found objects and materials, as it can motivate the practice of discarding perfectly working in
favor of newer ones . Fashion can also include categories such as luxury items, cosmetics,
bottled water, as well as aspects of furniture, housing, and automobiles, for example, that are
not strictly aimed at satisfying actual physical needs but are aimed at social signaling. As a
starting point, this project considers a compelling idea concerning fashion and sustainability as
well as using jewelry techniques to achieve creativity as well as utilize a deeper understanding
of the complexities of fashion to design interactive garments using jewelry techniques that are
most compatible with fashion design . The ultimate vision is to provide theoretical frameworks
that allow human-centered designs to use fashion as a positive force for sustainable design
and an interactive platform with certain objects and materials that can not be considered as an
aspect in fashion designs.
This project shows the different ideologies that can be applied in fashion design with the aim of
creating a platform to highlight the importance of fashion especially experimental fashion while
interacting physically with the garments. Here, I worked with found materials that can be
manipulated or explored with different fabrics to form garments while using the jewelry
techniques.
Found objects/ material/ fabric are described as undisguised, but often modified objects or
products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made often because they
have a non-art function. These are natural and manmade objects or fragments of an object that is
kept because of some intrinsic interest the artist sees in it .They may be put on a shelf and
treated as work of art in themselves as well as providing inspiration for the artists or can be used
to embellish an art work. These found objects include polythene, wood, metal, beads, compact
disc, that we have around us, and are used in our day today lives and are not often used in
fashion design. In the end a collection of six garments will be exhibited showing the different
jewelry techniques that have been used in their construction. | en_US |
