IFFTI 2019 MANCHESTER

8 – 12 April 2019

Paper Presentations – Session 1

Wednesday 10 April 2019
13.30 – 14.45

Strand 1a: Education

Paper 138: ‘I wear what I want to wear’: Youth, style and identity at the Fashion and Business Saturday Club
Jo Jenkinson and Kelly Joseph
Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University

Paper 32: Reflection on an experiential learning platform: Concept to retail at Praxes Studio
Feng-Yu Hsu and Yong Xue Hsieh
Shih Chien University

Paper 136: Diversity in fashion and textile design education
Carolyn H.M. Hardaker and Buddy Penfold
De Montfort University

Strand 1b: Design Process and Fashion

Paper 35: The pursuit of nothingness in Japanese aesthetics: Applications to fashion design
Sayaka Kamakura
Bunka Gakuen University

Paper 119: Not just ‘the look’: Identity, new materialism and affective clothing
Lily Ye
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Paper 163: Shadowear: A new way of re-(a)dressing the body
Dinu Bodiciu
LASALLE College of the Arts

Strand 1c: National Identity and Branding

Paper 15: Reflection on the identity of Chinese Fashion Designers and their stardom and vulnerability
Ou Na
Paris Diderot University

Paper 20: Clothing Preference of the 21st Century Tribal Women: A Study of the transformation in the Costume of Tribal Women of Tripura, India
Paramita Sarkar and Nilanjana Bairagi
NIFT Kangra Campus

Paper 172: Designers, Producers, and Users: Minority women’s three identities in their costume culture
Li Xin and He Yang
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Paper Presentations – Session 2

Thursday 11 April 2019
9.30 – 10.45

Strand 2a: Education and Sustainability

Paper 48: Towards a creative ID in fashion business education
Jacqueline Shorrocks
Nottingham Trent University

Paper 132: The future of the fashion designer: Changing concepts of the designer and consumer relationship in the age of sustainable practice
Noël Palomo-Lovinski & Steven Faerm
Kent State University / Parsons School of Design

Paper 180: A waste to value proposition: ‘Unspecified outcome’ driven learning
Shalini Gupta & Varun Goel
Pearl Academy

Strand 2b: Design Process and Fashion

Paper 3: A rising community of workers wearing protective clothing
Kundlata Mishra and Ela Dedhia
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Maharashtra

Paper 78: Asian Cultural Appropriation: a search for Evidence
Kenneth Wilkinson
Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University

Paper 168: Comfort in clothing: Fashion actors and victims
Karen Cross
Robert Gordon University

Strand 2c: National Identity and Branding

Paper 13: An assay of the Indian craft communities – an integral part of the Indian fashion industry
Maulshree Sinha
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chheb

Paper 59: Be Italian! Aesthetic employees and the embodiment of national traits in luxury fashion flagship hotels
Alice Dallabona
School of Design, University of Leeds

Paper 93: Made in Scotland: Country of origin branding in the Scottish textile industry
Christina Stewart
Robert Gordon University

Paper Presentations – Session 3

Thursday 11 April 2019
11.15 – 12.30

Session 3a: Sustainability

Paper 1: Jack’s jumper: Designing a sensibility for sustainable clothing communities
Fiona Hackney
University of Wolverhampton

Paper 28: Multi-stage yield and quality improvement of hemp fibres for clothing applications – prerequisite for revival of hemp cultivation
Alexandra De Raeve
University College Ghent

Paper 155: Everything is connected: the influences and inspirations of global icon and radical fashion philosopher, Vivienne Westwood
Linda Watson
Northumbria University

Session 3b: The Retail Experience

Paper 83: Impact of experiential marketing on customer purchase intention: A study of the Indian apparel retail industry
Sushil Raturi
National Institute of Fashion Technology, India

Paper 85: Spatial identity of fashion brands: The visibility network in complex shopping malls
Joseph Francis Wong
The Hong Kong Design Institute

Paper 87: The Bag Charge: Good for the global environment, detrimental to the fashion retail environment?
Ruth Sanderson and Carly Wraeg
Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University

Session 3c: Subcultures and Fashion

Paper 10: Totem on the timeline: Consumer tribes, subcultures and the space in between
Constantin-Felix von Maltzahn
Amsterdam Fashion Institute

Paper 47: Blood, sweat and tears: How did skateboarding’s Thrasher t-shirt become the fashionista’s ‘off duty’ look?
Kirsty Smith
Royal College of Art

Paper 55: Supreme: Super-mutant or keystone species of a sartorial ecology?
Nicolas Cambridge
London Metropolitan University

Paper Presentations – Session 4

Thursday 11 April 2019
14.00 – 15.15

Session 4a: Ethical Issues

Paper 60: Challenges faced by apparel and textile entrepreneurs seeking US production and sourcing – a study of startup survey data
Behnoosh Farashahi and Kate Annett-Hitchcock
North Carolina State University

Paper 68: The invisible worker: Who’s stitching your shoes?
Amy V. Benstead and Linda C. Hendry
University of Manchester / Lancaster University Management School

Paper 134: The changing values of millennials and Gen Z adults on fast fashion, social media and the sustainability of their clothing purchases
Catherine Geib
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Session 4b: New Technology/e-Technology

Paper 71: Virtual fashion ID: A reality check
Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University

Paper 76: The aesthetics of data for IoT wearables
Caroline McMillan
RMIT University

Paper 176: Style before technology: Rethinking the design process for e-textiles garments
Amy Chen, Jeanne Tan and Phil Henry
Hong Kong Polytechnic University / University of Leeds

Session 4c: Personal Identity and Fashion

Paper 120: Personalisation and identity in fashion
Anthony Kent, Iryna Kuksa and Tom Fisher
Nottingham Trent University

Paper 164: The dress and the self: How dress styles express identities
Courtney Nicole Chrimes, Rosy Boardman, Helen McCormick and Gianpaolo Vignali
The University of Manchester

Paper 171: ‘Biofeedback’ in developing fashion identity
Evelina Galli Poghosyan
Idyllwild Art School and Otis College of Art and Design

Session 4d: Social Media and Fashion

Paper 151: Scottish style: The construction of national identity and place amongst Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram
Madeleine Marcella-Hood
Robert Gordon University

Paper 26: Invisible to Visible: Social Media and its Role in Establishing Identity of LGBTQ in India
Neha Dimri
Pearl Academy

Paper 147: Navigating the fashion-faith landscape in Malaysia: The influence of fashion bloggers on Generation Y Malay females’ fashion consumption
Mohd Zaimmudin Mohd Zain, Patsy Perry and Liz Barnes
University of Malaysia / The University of Manchester