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Skilled and Traditional Manufacturing – What are you willing to pay for it?
I feel that today people desperately want two very contrasting things; bespoke, high quality, and environmentally conscious products and...
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Apr 24, 20232 min read
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Special Effects Through the Ages
2001: A space odyssey, set the highest standard of special effects ever seen at the time, so I am interested to find out about some of...
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Apr 17, 20232 min read
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Capsule Wardrobes
Something I have talked about many times throughout this research project is the idea of investing in good quality clothes that will...
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Apr 17, 20233 min read
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Nicholas Oddy – The History of Great Design
We recently had an extremely interesting lecture about the history of design from Nicholas Oddy, a professor of Design History at GSA. We...
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Apr 11, 20233 min read
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3D printing
Technology is enveloping the fashion world in many ways, and in this blog, I am going to be focussing on 3D printing within the fashion...
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Apr 11, 20232 min read
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Klarna
Throughout this research project, I keep coming back to the concept that the best thing we could do to improve the impact of fashion in...
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Apr 11, 20233 min read
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Fabric Technology
Technology is now making its way into the fabrics we wear, being used for a variety of different tasks. Wearable X describes itself as a...
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Apr 5, 20233 min read
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The Technology of Social Pressure
The way we use technology in our daily lives has changed massively over the last decade, most prominently being the introduction of...
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Apr 5, 20233 min read
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Attire The Studio
Attire is a brand that I came across a few years ago that is focused on being open about the costs and production of its clothing. Xenia...
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Apr 4, 20232 min read
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AI-assisted fashion
AI technology is making waves in the media and our daily lives, and the fashion industry is no exception to this. It has been adopted for...
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Apr 3, 20232 min read
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2001: A Space Odyssey a film review
I won’t watch this film again. This sentence could be the most damming of reviews for a film, however, I don’t know that 2001: A space...
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Apr 3, 20233 min read
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Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine
George Foreman Grills are iconic and one of the only cooking items that I can think of that has a position in pop culture. The grill rose...
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Apr 1, 20232 min read
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Mirjam de Bruijn - Sustainable and Cool
Mirjam de Bruijn is a Dutch designer currently based in Amsterdam and she has created several products that I like. The first is Twenty....
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Apr 1, 20232 min read
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Birkin Bags - What Is The Fuss?
Scrolling through Farfetch, a high fashion resale company, you can see a pre-owned Birkin bag selling for £53,189 with the cheapest one...
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
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A Trip Through Fashion History
Made-to-measure clothing is very uncommon to the average person now, however, 100 years ago it was the way that all clothing was made for...
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Mar 30, 20233 min read
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Patagonia – The conscious business model
Patagonia erupted into headlines last year as it was announced that all the company’s profits would now go towards saving the planet....
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
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2 February 2023 – Ben Craven: The Magic Number 7±2
This week's lecture was taken by Ben Craven, one of our first-year tutors, and the focus was on some of the psychological elements that...
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Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Bertie the Beetle
Starting from dark beginnings, the Volkswagen Beetle is now an iconic car, made so loved partly from the film Herbie. My car is a bright...
kimdenton09
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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Which Eames should come first?
Charles and Ray Eames are two of the most well-known names in the world of design. This week we watched ‘Eames: The Architect and the...
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Mar 14, 20233 min read
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Sir Kenneth Grange
Sir Kenneth Grange became a controversial point of conversation, with very contrasting opinions on the importance and quality of his...
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Mar 14, 20232 min read
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