• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.261-265
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• 2004

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.185-190
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• 2000

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.191-197
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• 2000

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.216-220
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• 2003

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.605-611
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• 2024

The study explores the growing interest in up-cycling within the fashion industry, driven by concerns over environmental degradation caused by mass production and fast fashion. Emphasizing the ethical dimension, the research focuses on recombination processes. Departing from traditional up-cycling concepts, the study introduces new expression methods by altering the position, function, and role of clothes. The target audience is women in their 20s and 30s, with the designs incorporating various materials and re-purposing frequently discarded items like jackets, suits, jeans, and bags. The goal is to offer diverse expressions of uphigh-dimensional clothing designs using waste material dismantling and recycled clothing while addressing environmental responsibility in fashion design.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.669-678
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• 2018

With increasing concerns about environmental issues that can result from apparel and textile disposal, the recycling methods for discarded fashion products have gained significant attention. As the influential drivers of consumer purchasing and consuming behaviors, fashion innovativeness and fashion involvement can play important roles in forming consumer attitudes toward apparel recycling. The purpose of this study was to (1) investigate consumer attitudes toward three different methods of apparel recycling including resale, reform, and donation, (2) examine the effects of fashion innovativeness and fashion involvement on consumers' apparel recycling attitudes, and (3) identify gender difference in the relationships among fashion innovativeness, fashion involvement, and recycling attitudes. Using a web-based survey, data were collected from 281 Korean consumers who were in their 20s and 30s. Overall, both male and female consumers revealed the most favorable attitudes toward apparel recycling through donation, followed by reform, and resale. The findings suggest that consumer traits, such as fashion innovativeness and fashion involvement, are important factors predicting male consumers' apparel recycling behaviors. Those male consumers who perceive fashion as important were more interested in apparel recycling than those males who put low importance on fashion. Male fashion innovators were less likely to recycle their unused and old apparel items. Further studies identifying antecedents of female consumers' attitudes toward apparel recycling are warranted.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.32 no.12
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• pp.1915-1926
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• 2008

Although we know that images of a country or an industry are influential factors in product evaluation, there has been little discussion about the channels through which consumers form a country or an industry image. Guided by the assumption that the image of the Korean fashion industry conveyed through U.S. media will likely affect the evaluation of Korean fashion products, we decided to examine articles published between January 1998 and June 2008 in Woman's Wear Daily(WWD), a prestigious U.S. daily trade newspaper covering all aspects of the national and international fashion business. By using the "Korean", we found 329 relevant articles. Through content analysis, we identified the aspects of the Korean fashion industry that have been considered salient to U.S. fashion media professionals. We set up categories based on the contents of the articles that discussed segments of the supply chain of the fashion industry. We found more comments on the Korean fashion industry as fiber and fabrics supplier or apparel manufacturer than in any other categories, which reflects that South Korea has been traditionally one of the most attractive sourcing countries for the U.S. fashion business. We identified significantly less coverage on the designing, branding, marketing, and retailing aspects of the Korean fashion industry. Due to economic boom in Korea, the country's fashion industry is recognized as having a highly fashion-conscious market that can afford the world's premium brands. However, the industry is viewed as being rather vulnerable to changes in the macro economic environment.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.717-729
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• 2019

This study defines critical fashion designs and investigate its critical messages on fashion itself. The critical messages on fashion are categorized into two major issues of a fashion industry system and fashion consumer culture. This study contributes to the understanding of meaning and value for critical fashion messages that match critical art. As the research method, this study combines a literature review and case studies and the research scope focuses on cases that have appeared in fashion media since the 2000s when social critical messages in fashion began to emerge. The results of the study are as follows. Critical designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Elisa van Joolen, Issey Miyake, and Mary Ping have delivered messages challenging the nature of fashion industry system that criticize the cycle and limitation of a fashion system and pursues changes in perception of sustainability. The critical message on fashion consumer culture articulated by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Hussein Chalayan, and Ricarda Bigolin & Nella Themelios insist on the formation of community while delivering a critical message on social, political, and cultural problems that raise the mechanism of social awareness through fashion design.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.20-29
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• 2009

디지털 의류는 디지털 기술이 의류에 자연스럽게 융합되면서 옷을 입은 사람뿐만 아니라 외부의 디지털 기기와도 자유로운 소통이 가능한 의류이다. 1990년 후반부터 유럽과 미국에서는 섬유기술에 IT 기술을 융합하는 연구가 계속되고 있으며, 직물부품 및 직물회로를 구현하여 의류에 적용한 바 있다. 초기 디지털 의류는 군복과 같은 특수용도로 개발되었으나 요즘에는 MP3 플레이어 내장 의류, 색깔이 변하는 의류, 헬스케어 의류 등 일상생활용도의 의류가 개발되는 추세이다. 디지털 의류는 신소재 산업, 센서 산업 등 기술 집약 산업의 활성화는 물론, 기존 전통 산업에 IT 기술을 접목함으로써 섬유, 패션, 의류산업의 확장과 활성화에 큰 역할을 할 것으로 전망된다. 앞으로 우리나라가 디지털 의류 시장을 선도하기 위해서는 섬유 IT 및 의류 IT융합 핵심기술의 확보가 시급하다. 본 고에서는 섬유 IT 융합분야의 이해를 높이고자 디지털 의류 기술 개발의 동향을 살펴보고 향후 기술발전 방향을 전망해 보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.21-44
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• 1999

의복은 인간이 삶을 영위함에 있어 필수불가결한 요소인 ‘의식주’의 하나로서 생산 및 유통의 역사는 인간의 역사와 같이한다. 인간의 개성 추구와 더불어 의복은 인간을 외부로부터 보호해 주는 기능적인 면에서 자신을 표출하는 패션적인 면이 더욱 강조되는 경향을 발전하고 있다. 의류부문에서 물류의 기능은 다른 제품과 마찬가지로 제품의 출하되는 원상태로 유지하면서 소비자가 원하는 시간에 원하는 장소에서 인도될 때 완전한 물류서비스를 제공하는 것이 된다.(중략)