ABSTRACT: The main objective of this article is to document the importance of traditional textile arts and techniques as a motive and source of inspiration for creators and designers, who will search the bases and roots for their creations. It is a challenge that consists of "reinventing the past", preserving the tradition, looking for the origins of the design, and developing new textile products and new functionalities based on techniques and manual skills capable of incorporating innovation into new fabrics . Keywords: Design References, Projects, Textile / Fashion. KEYWORDS: (...)

ABSTRACT: Understanding frequent changes in the fashion system movement, is occupying more space in the researcher, designer and marketer’s agenda. The research of social and cultural trends is a very efficient manner to study the future as a way of minimizing risks related to the unknown time. The research project ‘The future of the present: space observation, analysis and interpretation of signs’, uses a specific method of studying emerging signs and aims to identify the spirit of times (zeitgeist) and translate it, then, into short and medium period trends for the fashion (...)

ABSTRACT: This research was developed through the Research Line in Education and Arts of the Education Post-Graduation Program, in the Education Center at the Federal University of Santa Maria/RS/Brazil. This research investigated the non-formal education practice through the regional historical patrimony. This patrimony was located into a paleontological area called Chácara das Flores, in Santa Maria/RS, and the research used as basis the petrified tree fossils in the development of creative processes. These creative processes intended to create an alternative space where education and (...)

ABSTRACT: This article exposes the work of developing research and seeks to demonstrate that the hospital-wide professional clothing can be promoter of corporate identity of an institution. The image of an institution born of the lack, for the public, a number of elements, reflecting your values, your activity and your professionalism. This identity does not appear only in the posters, in vehicles, in envelopes or business cards but also, and increasingly, in clothing and accessories that people wear and display. In this way, professional clothing (or uniforms) represents a direct broadcast (...)

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the important relationship between fashion and your industry, and the consumption of your products by society today. Therefore, it is discussed a short description of relations between the fashion and textile industry, as well as the way in which sustainability is being treated in the manufacture of clothing and accessories. In a second step, it is analyzed how the contemporary society consumes, and how fashion relates to the predominant values of consumption. Lastly, we present some projections for the future, in order to show new values and changes to a society (...)

ABSTRACT: Base on a qualitative approach to traditional creative practices grounded on a participatory research-action, Capulanar is the result of a case study derived from a research project within our Ph.D in Design at the School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. From an historical contextualization, the first part of this article emphasizes three key-concepts of Co-design, Slow-fashion and Affectivity associated by the author to the creation and production of capulana. Yet, the second part draws its contents from the theoretical approaches from Fletcher (2008) and Fuad-Luke (...)

ABSTRACT: This present article aims to generate a reflection about the importance of design in transforming the concept of perception of synthetic fabrics used in home textile. To discuss how the textile design can enhance the synthetic raw materials, concrete, polyester fabric, considered the largest consumption of fiber in the textile industry. Thus, it is essential to discuss how synthetic fibers, which are sometimes perceived/appreciable as less natural, which make it as a less desirable material, reveal themselves with virtues, skills and aesthetics, when we desire a printed fabric with (...)

ABSTRACT: The present trends of the consuming market had pressured the industry of clothes to adopt a clear orientation for the market, being meant this a necessity of continuous inquiry concerning the consumers, in order to reach its target of market, directing its efforts for well defined segments and, generally, following the indications of the effectuates studies. In this article, the thematic one of the market segmentation is directed to investigate its application in the case of fashion clothes. The marketing investigators had always dedicated to a special attention to the understanding (...)

ABSTRACT: With this article we intend to reflect on the importance of design as a creative process applied to the experimental project of a line of accessories, with the concept of the plastic painter Manuel Cargaleiro work. The analysis of this master intersects with a set of references and memories developed along his career as a painter. The reinterpretation of traditional techniques such as patchwork or the exploration of new production methods, including rapid prototyping, were part of the methodology used, alongside the procedural design and intermediate models. The intention is to (...)

ABSTRACT: The qualitative approach considers society to be made up of individuals and groups who share meanings according to expectations and collective perspectives. It may contribute positively a critical view of scholars and fashion professionals with regard to the phenomenon of the trends. From this methodological design, the researcher investigates processes, facts and situations in the social scene which, interconnected, can explain the phenomenon analyzed. The literature points out that for qualitative research several perspectives, epistemologies and ontologies coexist. Thus, the (...)