Utopia and Fashion

Utopia and Fashion
Author: Mila Burcikova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018
Genre: Clothing trade
ISBN:

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How does utopian thinking feature in fashion? For example, could it have the power to reshape how we think about, produce, and consume fashion in the future? Can the current sustainable fashion movement really transform the fashion industry and show us how to love fashion without perpetuating the harmful consequences of its production? Utopia and Fashion is open to interrogate the links between fashion and utopia, to generate a wide-ranging dialogue that contributes to a better understanding of utopian impulses permeating fashion's history, present, as well as the visions of fashion futures. --Publisher's website.

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking
Author: René ten Bos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789027233035

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"Building upon some rather unusual sources in postmodern theory, the author argues that management fashion might encourage the practitioner to engage in philosophical self-examination and to adopt alternative forms of understanding. However, it is also argued that management fashion often fails to keep up to this promise because it remains paradoxically incapable of laying off its rationalist cloak."--BOOK JACKET.

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking
Author: René ten Bos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2000-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9027299781

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Why is it that people in organizations seem to be so vulnerable to management fashion and guruism? And why is it that both phenomena are loathed in traditional academic thinking about management and organization? In this book, René ten Bos argues for a more philosophical rather than scientific understanding of management fashion. In doing so he questions the positivist and utopian orthodoxies that have pervaded management thinking. Ten Bos contends that management fashion is a cultural phenomenon that deserves serious reflection not only because it is so immensely widespread but also because its seems to satisfy particular philosophical needs among its consumers. Building upon some rather unusual sources in postmodern theory, the author argues that management fashion might encourage the practitioner to engage in philosophical self-experimentation and to adopt alternative forms of understanding. However, it is also argued that management fashion often fails to keep up to this promise because it remains paradoxically incapable of laying off its rationalist cloak.René ten Bos is a philosopher and management consultant. He works for Schouten & Nelissen and took his PhD at the Catholic University of Brabant.

Utopia

Utopia
Author: Thomas More
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8027303583

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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Slowing Down in Fashion

Slowing Down in Fashion
Author: Ania Szyszkiewicz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2009
Genre: Fashion
ISBN:

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Soviet Textiles

Soviet Textiles
Author: Pamela Jill Kachurin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Soviet Textiles ISBN 0-87846-703-3 / 978-0-87846-703-7 Paperback, 8 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 52 color. / U.S. $24.95 CDN $30.00 August / Design

Fashion & Sustainability

Fashion & Sustainability
Author: Kate Fletcher
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-04-09
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1780673620

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This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour abuses, toxic chemicals use and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniable tension between fashion and sustainability. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use and re-use. The second part looks at ideas that are transforming the fashion system at root into something more sustainable, including new business models that reduce material throughput. The third section is concerned with transforming the role of fashion designers and looks to examples where the designer changes from a stylist or creator into a communicator, activist or facilitator.

American Utopia

American Utopia
Author: David Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1635576695

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From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman--an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all. Don't miss the Spike Lee film of the Broadway hit American Utopia--on HBO. A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020 A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is now a film from Spike Lee on HBO. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which she created for the Broadway show's curtain, is composed of small moments, expressions, gestures, and interactions that together offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence. With their creative talents combined, American Utopia is a salvo for kindness and a call for jubilation, a reminder to sing, dance, and waste not a moment. Beautifully designed and edited by Alex Kalman, American Utopia is a balm for the soul from two of the world's most extraordinary artists.

Utopian Bodies. Fashion Looks Forward

Utopian Bodies. Fashion Looks Forward
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9789186011291

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Liljevalchsþ new extraordinary exhibition “Utopian Bodies: Fashion Looks Forward” maps out imaginable futures for the adorned body and focuses on the positive aspects of fashion, rather than expatiate on the problems. How can fashion be harnessed to create a better future? How does fashion relate to the human body, to us as individuals and groups, and the world around us? The exhibition, which consists of over 200 objects, images and videos, invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey between different worlds. The individually designed galleries are inspired by various utopian ideas – some realised and others not. But above all, they highlight the social promise of technology and creativity.00Exhibition: Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (25.09.2015-07.02.2016).

The Faber Book of Utopias

The Faber Book of Utopias
Author: John Carey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Utopias
ISBN: 9780571203178

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Utopias come in every conceivable cultural and sexual shade: communist, fascist, anarchist, green, techno-fantastic, all male, all female. John Carey's anthology encompasses many noble schemes, as well as chilling attempts at social control.