Cyborgs, New Technology, and the Body: The Changing Nature of Garments

Farren, Beverley; Hutchison, Andrew

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“…Mattila 2016); (2) smart garments, textiles and IoT systems (e.g. Farren and Hutchison 2004); (3) utilization of AI (e.g. Luce 2019); and (4) digital fashion where 3D-technology is used in design processes, product development, visualization, distribution and marketing (e.g.…”

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Digital 3D Fashion Designers: Cases of Atacac and The Fabricant

Särmäkari¹

2021

Fashion Theory

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The phenomenon of "digital fashion" has been lately addressed in media as the next significant step in the fashion industry. The increasing use of the 3D-software in fashion design processes is part of a wider "fashion 4.0" digitalization process. This article frames the phenomenon of digital fashion and presents an in-depth case study research on two pioneering companies in this area, Atacac and The Fabricant. How and why are they building their fashion design practice on digital 3D-design? How are these companies redefining the fashion design culture and the fashion designer? Drawing from sociology of professions, this article proposes that digital fashion is an emerging subfield within the field of fashion design, differentiating itself from the professional conventions and building new strategies of jurisdiction and legitimation. Driven by sociotechnical affordances and elevation of professional pride through ethical, conceptual, artistic and skill differentiation, digital fashion designer becomes also a digital artisan. In the increasingly virtual, or "phygital" space and a networked synergetic community of digital fashion, the professional, authorial, bodily and material boundaries of Natalia S€ arm€ akari is a Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University, Finland. S€ arm€ akari's professional background is in fashion design and her research interests concern fashion studies and design research, authorship and professionalism of fashion designers as well as the digitalization and datafication of the field of fashion design.

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Section: Fashion 40mentioning

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Digital 3D Fashion Designers: Cases of Atacac and The Fabricant

Särmäkari¹

2021

Fashion Theory

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“…The textile technology 'revolution' goes on (Farren & Hutchinson 2004;Quinn 2002;Shishoo 2005). So maybe those hoping for a long career as a professional football player today will have to remain receptive to the continuous changes to whatever sensations and feelings new body-altering, performance-enhancing textile technology may bring about in the near future, just like the pragmatic player interviewed who thought he would get used to the clothes.…”

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As Fast as Possible Rather Than Well Protected: Experiences of Football Clothes

Torell

2011

Cult. Unbound

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With Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological view that human beings ‘take in’ the world and experience themselves as subjects through their bodies as a starting point, players in both men’s and women’s teams, kit men, purchasing managers, sporting directors, and a coach from Swedish football clubs have been interviewed about their perceptions and experiences of football clothing. Since the body is both a feeling and knowing entity, clothes are seen as components of body techniques, facilitating or restricting body movements in a material way, but also as creators of senses, like lightness and security; in both ways, influencing the knowledge in action that playing football is. In this article, the content of the in-terviews is discussed in relation to health. When clothes are primarily related to a biomedical view that health means no injuries and illnesses, warm pants and shin guards are mentioned by players, who are rather ambivalent to both, since these garments counteract a feeling of lightness that is connected to the perception of speed. Players want to be fast rather than well protected. If clothes, instead, are interpreted as related to a broad conception of health, including mental, social, and physical components, the relation body–space-in-between–clothes seems to be an important aspect of clothing. Dressed in a sports uniform, unable to choose individual details, the feeling of subjectivity is related to wearing ‘the right-size’ clothes. Also new textile technology, like injury-preventing and speed-increasing tight compression underwear, is perceived by players based on feelings that they are human subjects striving for both bodily and psychological well-being

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“…The textile technology 'revolution' goes on (Farren & Hutchinson 2004;Shishoo 2005). So maybe those hoping for a long career as a professional football player today will have to remain receptive to the continuous changes to whatever sensations and feelings new body-altering, performance-enhancing textile technology may bring about in the near future, just like the pragmatic player interviewed who thought he would get used to the clothes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2011

Cult. Unbound

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Cyborgs, New Technology, and the Body: The Changing Nature of Garments

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Digital 3D Fashion Designers: Cases of Atacac and The Fabricant

Digital 3D Fashion Designers: Cases of Atacac and The Fabricant

As Fast as Possible Rather Than Well Protected: Experiences of Football Clothes

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