Up-cycling Trend Analysis in Fashion Industries
Consumers around the world became aware that The environment and climate change is one of the ntost important social issues through experiencing rapid climate shift.Consuming patterns have changed according to heightening of interest in the environment and over a quarter of consumers showed their purchasing preference for eco-friendly products even though they are more expensive.Consumers eco-friend propensity has affected retailers and manufacturers.The purposes of this study were to identify the concept of fashion up-cycling and to analyze up-cycling fashion brands.The definition of up-cycling in fashion industries is to manufacture highly susceptible and high-valued fashion products with creative idea or design inspiration by using second hand resources.There are similar terms such as trashion(trash + fashion), redesign, and remanufacturing.Techniques for fashion up-cycling drawn from case analysis of fashion companies were redesigning old fashioned clothing in their storehouses, redesigning small pieces of textiles from sewing companies, and redesigning second hand clothing with creative ideas or inspiration.
Fashion up-cycling Fashion industry
Yongsook Kim
Dept.of Clothing & Textiles,Chonbuk National University,South Korea
国际会议
苏州
英文
573-576
2013-09-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）