Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods

Recognizing the Importance of Empathy and Humanity from Aesthetic and Social-Psychological Perspectives to Promote Sustainability in Fashion Design Education

“…Fashion design aims to create pleasurable user experiences and meaningful memories, enhancing well-being [40], fostering a strong attachment to clothing, and extending garment lifespan for sustainability [41]. A collaborative design that evokes in-depth emotions and matches consumers' attachment attributes and preferences could obtain longer lifespans for fashion products [11]. Other than designing brand-new fashion products, adopting an upcycling or redesign approach to enhance the functional and aesthetic properties of used clothing can also foster a deep relationship and emotional connection between the wearer and apparel [42,43], thus increasing the clothing's longevity while reducing waste.…”

“…This Holistic Sustainability with FEAS (HSFEAS) model expands the wildly used FEA (i.e., Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic) Consumer Needs Model for apparel design [7,8] to FEAS by replacing "Expressive" with "Symbolic" and adding "Emotional" aspect to the apparel design framework since the experiential aspects of consumption, such as fantasies, feelings, and fun, play important roles in consumers' purchase decisions [9]. Fashion designers prioritize the emotional and affective elements, a focus that has garnered widespread recognition within the fashion industry and academic research [10,11].…”