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Symbolic Choices

Main references/inspiration

- StylelikeU --> clothing and identity, and outfit that tells a story --> connecting to you items more and understanding yourself more as a way to make more conscious, slowed down stylistic choices
- Color --> breaking down: basic color theory --> color symbolism and color context --> improving your eye and knowledge of color, how you relate to color, to make smarter, conscious consumption and personal style choices --> against following fast fashion trends and seasonal lookbooks

- Hotglue page includes existing list of sustainable brands, to get an idea of what's available in the market, what they're currently doing already in terms of productions and what sustainable fashion can look like, increasing and varying our notions of sustainable fashion
+ This list includes second hand (vintage)
- can read up more on the brands and decide what suits them, their price range, and make them curious customers apply more consideration to what they're purchasing --> maybe even make price and quality choices, distinguishing features

Second list:
- what's happening on an ethical sustainable level locally --> included some brands --> getting local lowers carbon footprint from online shopping (air shipment)
- relevant to people living in Rotterdam and ourselves, as students, shoppers, and residents of Rotterdam

- unpacking what exactly the terms fashion and sustainability mean and entail, individually, then also the combination of the two words means, gathering knowledge and exploring the boundaries of sustainable fashion

PUNK Earring ---> How culture affects fashion, and tangible culture differs due to symbol, while basis appears in multiple cultures (i.e., jewelry) This notion of tangible culture, and what we see differing in terms of style is the design of the essentially same items

Jewelry as being totemic for different (sub)cultural groups, and worn as a fashion/dress item with different intentions

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cambridge Dictionary. (2019, November 20). sustainable. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sustainable

Color Matters. (n.d.-a). Basic Color Theory. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

Color Matters. (n.d.-b). Color & Culture Matters | Color Symbolism. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://www.colormatters.com/color-symbolism/color-and-culture-matters

Dictionary.com. (n.d.). Fashion. Retrieved November 21, 2019, from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fashion?s=t

Durcanin, C. (1999, October 12). What is Fashion? | PBS NewsHour Extra. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/1999/10/what-is-fashion/

Khoshaba, B. (2015, June 8). What Is Fashion? Retrieved October 21, 2019, from https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-is-fashion

Mirriam Webster. (n.d.). Definition of SUSTAINABLE. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sustainable

Online Etymology Dictionary. (n.d.). fashion | Search Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved November 21, 2019, from https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=fashion

Orlitzky, M., & Network for Business Sustainability . (2014, January 3). The Dark Side of Sustainability. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://www.nbs.net/articles/the-dark-side-of-sustainability

Pallaro, F. L. (n.d.). IS FASHION AN “EGO” DRIVEN INDUSTRY? Retrieved October 21, 2019, from https://farahlizpallaro.com/is-fashion-an-ego-driven-industry/

Re:Skull. (n.d.). The History, Symbolism and Significance of the Skull in Fashion. Retrieved November 21, 2019, from https://www.reskull.com/blogs/stories/the-history-symbolism-and-significance-of-the-skull-in-fashion

Wijen, F. (2015, March 13). Negative consequences of sustainability labelling. Retrieved November 22, 2019, from https://discovery.rsm.nl/articles/detail/145-negative-consequences-of-sustainability-labelling/

Discussions, meeting with tutors --> change in product direction, feedback, suggesting a new idea of a website --> introduced to lecture-performance, inspiring final product presentation

Transdiciplinary research methods
HISToRY x BUSINESS x ARTS AND CULTURE STUDIES
- articles
- field work
- documentary --> true cost
- consumerism --> rise to capitlasm and the american shopping pattern

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Interview with cheap fashion - fieldwork
Transcription below

Getting local!

Second hand fashion - Vintage clothing

Organization

- Communication through social channels: WhatsApp, group call sessions

- Physical meetups- wijkpaleis, Willem de Kooning academy, public library @ Blaak, Erasmus university college (as shown here)

- Share research made separately, reflecting on previous meetups and discussions with tutors, sharing and realizing ideas for the final product, doing research together

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/user/stylelikeu
https://www.fashionrevolution.org/ https://www.instagram.com/givecredit_/
https://www.instagram.com/stylelikeu/

THE NEVER-ENDING PROBLEM

Vicious cycles - Fashion industry waste, labor, and production issues face so many layers, it essentially makes it an unsolvable problems, with seemingly obvious solution for one problem has an impact or depends a lot on another layer in a vertical spectrum = the problem with various interrelating and interdependent layers --> in terms of level of ethics(ethical production) and environmental care