Word: fashionization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asia Injury Prevention Foundation is taking a different tack, promoting helmets as fashion items. The group's commercial arm, Protec, manufactures special "tropical" helmets with air vents, floral designs and racing stripes. Miss Vietnam 2006, Mai Phuong Thuy, has joined the campaign, posing for promotional posters wearing a Protechelmet with a stained-glass motif. Recently, street-side helmet stands have popped up on virtually every corner...
...knows she should be wearing a helmet. She just doesn't want to be the only one. "After the new law, when everyone else is wearing helmets, then I guess I will too," she says. On Vietnam's mean streets, saving lives may depend as much on the fashion police as the new rules of the road...
...These designers, especially ones that have just graduated, have tried so hard to pursue their passion, and Project East believes that their dedication should not go unnoticed. Consequently, we will continue with our goal of promoting Asian designers, raising money for charity, and building relationships between Harvard and the fashion industry. We are a group completely aware of what we are doing; furthermore, we are pure in our intent and consequently impossible to criticize...
...only is the data that Lin uses to support her argument invalid, but Lin has also failed to realize that in promoting small designers, Project East promotes diversification of the fashion industry. Lin claims that a major problem in East Asia is “over-consumption”, but if more designers are able to survive because of our efforts, it will promote creative intelligence and uproot existing status symbols...
Perhaps when she made the claim “As it relates to Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia more generally,” Lin led herself astray. She doesn’t notice that Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia are separate entities. At Project East, we showed designers from New York Fashion Week, who had Asian backgrounds. Perhaps Lin thought that these designers’ Asian backgrounds meant that they show in Shanghai, Tokyo, or Seoul and would thus affect consumption in such areas...