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I felt the book was a decision maker, it provides a different path for the problems faced by the industry and those which i personally have researched earlier. The book succeeds in showing various ways of zero waste design in fashion and shows a way out of this debacle. Hence my response is similar to Bandersnatch by Netflix, recently released for Black Mirror franchise. It gives various paths and gives second chances to severe problems, this book proved the same for me.

Zero Waste Fashion Design Book by Holly McQuillan and Timo Rissanen

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Interactive Response

Zero Waste Fashion Design-  by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan Almond, K 

In zero waste fashion, the designer creates a garment by working with the entire space of the fabric width, utilizing the pattern cutting process. The design of the garment is entirely influenced by this method, formulated to eliminate textile waste through a holistic development of pattern pieces that use all of the fabric. The concept of zero waste fashion is not new. Examples of garments that adhere to the manufacturing principles of the idiom include the sari, the kimono and the Greek Chiton. These long established costumes have arguably inspired the development of the production processes of zero waste. They are generously detailed in the book through images that demonstrate the manufacture of various zero waste garments, developed by the authors themselves, as well as leading designers and pattern cutters within the field. This emphasizes the process of fashion design and pattern cutting as unified, a generative rather than a reactive activity, in which pattern cutting can often be the motion that produces the idea. It is emphasized that one of the key challenges for zero waste fashion design is developing an understanding of this approach within the mass market, where the separation of both the pattern cutting and design roles, is often traditional. 

I felt the book was a decision maker, it provides a different path for the problems faced by the industry and those which i personally have researched earlier. The book succeeds in showing various ways of zero waste design in fashion and shows a way out of this debacle. Hence my response is similar to Bandersnatch by Netflix, recently released for Black Mirror franchise. It gives various paths and gives second chances to severe problems, this book proved the same for me. 

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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes

by

Andrew Brooks 

(Performance Reaction)

The book reads a little bit like a university academic paper since it has a lot of case studies and solutions, it brings to light the hidden and not so often thought of world of fast fashion and second hand clothing sales. Before I had always thought clothing donations were a convenient way of getting rid of unwanted clothing, but having read this book I am now thinking twice about what clothing I buy and how I use them. While this won't make much of a dent in the world of clothing, it has at least changed how I will purchase clothing in the future; in a much more careful and long term use way. It brings up the point of second hand clothing and how it can help but still it is a far-fetched way to deal with an impact so colossal.

I felt the book has conveyed a very importan aspect of the fashion industry and how it deal with the waste. It provided me with a factual and statistical understanding of waste and manufacturing and the inequalities of the same.

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F*****N

Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion Tansy E. Hoskins

The last need of imperialism is not for raw materials, exploited labour and controlled markets, it is for a mankind that counts for nothing.

This book gave a neutral point of view on fashion industry and its many harms to the society. As it gives a critical brief about fashion and the economy, it also looks at it as an artifact of time and an industry with many opportunities. It also brings in my subjects of interests that talk about arguments from an anti-capitalistic point of view as well as from the imperialist and capitalist point of view. It talks about the hierarchy in the industry and the trickle down in merchandises making it the favourite child of capitalism. She goes for the high end. So while her book reminds us that Stefan Persson, the owner of H&M, bought a whole village in Hampshire in 2009, it dwells on the luxury conglomerates, the richest and most ruthless of which is LVMH (Louis Vuitton/Moët Hennessy), an intricate nest of companies that includes among its brands Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Céline. In the course of her convincing denial of the possibility of "ethical fashion", Hoskins tells the story of Edun, the clothing line started by Ali Hewson and her husband Bono. It began with the intention of manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa, but after a poor initial reception, LVMH bought a 49% stake in the company in 2010 and immediately moved 85% of its manufacturing out of Africa – mainly to China. At the other end of the scale, LVMH lost patience with Christian Lacroix, selling the house in 2005. The couturier filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and (like a select club of designers, such as Martin Margiela and Jil Sander) no longer has the rights to his own name. As Hoskins says a little gleefully he "now designs interiors and uniforms for train companies and collaborates with high‑street chains"

It looks on the many unseen facets of the fashion industry and was a good book to begin with. It almost makes the word fashion a swear word and it is not shown in good light, hence, my typographical response depicts the same.

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Questions after reading a number of articles based on capitalism and society. Each visual representation depicts one question from one source of literature.

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Ethnographic Research

As a concept of understanding the various groups based on income level in the US, this pop up- provides an in-depth mind sets of people and their notions about capitalism. 

Museum Of Capitalism.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/06/19/new-art-project-imagines-post-capitalist-world-reimagines-museums/

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Ethnographic Research

This research was conducted to understand the purchasing habits of people from all the age groups. It provides a very detailed insight about the same. It is intriguing because it talks about the general notion of people wanting to shope at a physical store rather than onilne and brings in various constraints  to condition the same.

https://www.commercialwebservices.com/blog/2017/11/09/customer-purchasing-habits-what-you-need-to-know/

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NEW CITIES vis-a-vis DESIGN RESEARCH

Design research is concerned with the physical embodiment of man-made things, how these things perform their jobs, and how they work.

Design research has taken itself up a notch when it comes to the betterment of us humans. We have several metropolises around the world which has served as a living, physical example of man-made settlements. They have functions, are architectured and have different roles for its various different parts. And as we design new cities we are definitely concerned with the way they perform, the way they work, look etc.

Investigating Design: A Review of Forty Years of Design Research