The purpose of the article is to analyze upgrading by looking at the design of fashion garments. To that end, I use the … through design. Contextual knowledge combines a general knowledge of fashion with the lifeworld that actors use for … interpretation of fashion. Lifeworld is a notion which refers to what is taken for granted. Producers and consumers in the global …

This article develops a perspective of fashion as a complex, multi-dimensional form of knowledge and as a technology of … garment mass production. It identifies the various modalities of fashion knowledge and characterises their different rates and …-temporal configurations of fashion knowledge as it is mobilised in the economy, interrogating the ways in which the uneven viscosity of its …

Until recently, Zara, a major international clothing retailer and pioneer of fast fashion principles, kept almost half … the 1980s, the existence of such exceptions has been fueling an expectation that the production of high-quality fashion … current seminal change in the culture of fashion from ready-to-wear to fast fashion, and report that the increased variety and …

neglects advantages of speed, flexibility and proximity to centres of fashion and design that have helped some suppliers in … based on 'mass fashion' products, the scale and scope economies of large-scale suppliers and mass retailers, and innovations … New York City, where small firms and fashion markets are important, the dominance of the large-scale mass-fashion model …

The early internationalization of haute couture -- Branding haute couture -- Dressing for crisis -- Fashion in World … War II -- Global haute couture -- One world of fashion -- End of the century. … groundwork of today's international fashion industry. Véronique Pouillard tells the story of the fashion business as a …