Table of Contents : Proceedings of the 27th IFFTI Annual Conference (2025)
| CONTENTS | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| TEXT-BASED PAPERS | |
| PEDAGOGIES | |
| Teaching by Example Integrating Sustainable Practices into the Traditional Fashion Classroom | |
| Ra Thomson | 13-27 |
| Rebel Tartan Project Cross-Cultural and Socio-Political Narratives in Fashion Education | |
| Juliana Sissons, Ashish Dhaka, Claudia Arana, Scott Sutcliffe, Liya Zhou, Giles Jackson | 28-45 |
| Transforming Design Education with Three-Way Multilateral Collaboration - A Case Study of Innovative Participatory Curriculum Design in the Fashion Media Design Programme | |
| Elita Lam, Stephen Parke, Kyle Wu | 46-61 |
| AI and Machine learning tools in fashion pedagogy an Empirical Study | |
| V. Priyadarshini, R. Reshmi Munshi | 62-72 |
| Fashioning the Future Fostering critical voices and identities in Contemporary Fashion Education | |
| Dr. Aneesha Henry, Prof. Asheesh Saini | 73-87 |
| A Transformative Approach Integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into Fashion Education to Transfer Values from Product to Practice | |
| Clare McTurk | 88-95 |
| Understanding Students' Perceptions of Sustainability in Global Fashion Education | |
| Corinna Joyce, Noorin Khamisani, Karen Ryan, Carolina Quintero Rodriguez, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Grazia Sousa and Lara Torres | 96-105 |
| Getting a Word in Edgeways Exploring the impact of turn-taking and active listening training on HE International Fashion Design students’ group-work interaction | |
| Lindsey Riley | 106-127 |
| Fostering Synergy Integrating Academic Researchers, Educational Leaders, and Industry for Holistic Collaboration | |
| Julie Hodson | 128-138 |
| Digital Fashion: Reflections on Pedagogy from key Australian Fashion Institutions | |
| Angela Finn, Donna Sgro, Zoe Mellick and Madeline Taylor | 139-153 |
| ‘Approaches to Teach Fashion Design’ - A comparative study between the three major subjects learned and their outcome | |
| Dr Geetha Ranjini | 154-164 |
| Fashion education embracing artistic processes and project-based education | |
| Manolita Muñoz Riego and Emmanuelle de Román | 165-196 |
| A Year in Waa Weelum Growing within an Australian natural dye garden | |
| Tarryn Handcock, Verity Prideaux | 197-211 |
| Fashion Cultures in Context: A Pedagogical Shift for Future-Ready Fashion Education | |
| Sian Vance and Dr Gaby Harris | 212-216 |
| Taking Classrooms to The Craft Cluster: A Co-Creation Approach for Fashion Education | |
| Shipra Roy, Mohankumar VK | 217-231 |
| Developing the Framework for Sustainable Fashion and Textile Design Education in India | |
| Nandini Lal and Dr Sudha Dhingra | 232-252 |
| Forming Futures: Exploring the Intersection of Creativity, Pedagogy, and Technology in Fashion Design | |
| Philippa Lindenthal | 253-263 |
| Designing Collectively: Notes on enhancing collaboration within a collection development in fashion design education – a case study | |
| Karin Landahl, Stefanie Malmgren de Oliveira | 264-282 |
| Establishing a Skills Baseline for Sustainable and Circular Fashion and Textiles Design in UK Higher Education | |
| Stella Claxton and Amanda Briggs-Goode | 283-292 |
| COMMUNITIES | |
| Keeping it Local Community Sweaters: exploring a more sustainable fashion future through community, cultural heritage and technology | |
| Maaike Feitsma, Leslie Eisinger | 294-309 |
| Deep roots: the inextricable mesh of dress and identity and its persistence into later life. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study | |
| Ezinma Mbeledogu | 310-330 |
| Re-thinking Fashion Futures: Co-Designing Digital Tools with Vietnam’s Textile Craft Communities | |
| Matthias Waldhart, Corinna Joyce, Donna Cleveland, Hanh Nguyen | 331-341 |
| From Scars to Avatars: Translating lived experiences into Stylised Digital Representations | |
| Lionel Wong, Jamela Law Hoi Shan | 342-364 |
| The Hidden Faces of European Haute Couture: Highlighting the Indispensable Role of Indian Craftsmanship in European Luxury Fashion | |
| Ms. Kali Rawat, Ms. Upasna | 365-373 |
| The Future of Fashion in Web3: A Netnographic Case Study of the Gucci Discord Community | |
| Marta Sron, Maxi Heitmayer | 374-396 |
| Integrating Sustainability and Heritage Elements: Promoting Malawian Fashion with an Ecoconscious Mindset | |
| Tao Hui, Yankho Danielle Datchi, S M Minhus | 397-412 |
| Mass clothing: social change at the local community level | |
| Katelyn Toth-Fejel, Julia Crew | 413-431 |
| Representation and Misrepresentation of Indian Culture in International Fashion | |
| Dr. Anupam Kapoor | 432-453 |
| Mainstreaming Sensory-Integrated Garments: A User-Centred Approach to Fashion Inclusion | |
| Emma Fazackerley | 454-462 |
| Slow Fashion and Heritage Preservation: Examining Strategic Interventions in Maheshwar Textiles of Madhya Pradesh | |
| Dr. Reena Aggarwal | 463-479 |
| The Impact of Incarceration on a Person’s Relationship with Clothing | |
| Lonny Carter | 480-497 |
| Stories from Our Wardrobe: Developing 21st-Century Competencies Through Storytelling, Zines and Exhibition-Making. | |
| Pixie Tan | 498-523 |
| Scottish fashion futures: reflecting on Scotland’s fashion identity, influence and impact | |
| Madeleine Marcella-Hood, Karen Cross | 524-540 |
| Fast fashion: Consumer perceptions of country of brand origin | |
| Arooj Rashid, Anthony Kent | 541-552 |
| Out of the Closet: Queer Temporal Speculative Practices in Fashion Curation | |
| Stephen Severn | 553-565 |
| Redefining Authenticity: A Philosophy for the Future of Fashion | |
| Sylvia Barreto Pilgren, Rebecca Louise Breuer | 566-577 |
| Empowering Asian Narratives Through Fashion: Unveiling the Journey of the Asian Fashion Archive | |
| Faith Cooper | 578-583 |
| Challenging binary gender assumptions of contemporary Western fashion through textile design approaches to support a truer spectrum of self-expression | |
| Daniel Collings | 584-606 |
| Reimagining Fashion: The Interplay of Material Dynamics and Affectivity in Fashion Assemblages | |
| Alyssa Choat | 607-619 |
| Narratives of Change: A Study of CSR Initiatives in Indian Textiles Sector | |
| Kislaya Choudhary | 620-631 |
| The Sensory Salon: Reimagining Inclusive Fashion Experiences | |
| Emma Lynas, Rashmita Bardalai | 632-638 |
| Legacy in Latex: Fashion's Evolution through the Stories of Ageing Fetishists | |
| Dr Charlotte Goldthorpe | 639-649 |
| Redefining Regional Folk Art (Chitrakathi) in Fashion for its Commercial Application in Lifestyle Products | |
| Sneha Maktedar, Mallika Dabhade Samant | 650-668 |
| Retirement and post-growth: towards a model of considered clothing consumption | |
| Ania Sadkowska, Katherine Townsend | 669-677 |
| Re-imagining Global Fashion Recycling Value Chain System Through Extended Product Responsibility | |
| Rajkishore Nayak, Tarun Panwar, Long T. V. Nguyen, Nathalie Broun | 678-689 |
| A case study of Kebaya Societé’s promotion of the Nusantara fashion and identity in Singapore through visual narratives | |
| Rohaizatul Azhar | 690-702 |
| Fashion as method: repositioning fashion as a conduit to lived experiences of youth | |
| Jo Jenkinson | 703-711 |
| Reframing Fast Fashion: A Paradigm Shift for the Two Dirtiest Words in Our Fashion Vocabulary & the Introduction of Flow Fashion | |
| Ann Cantrell | 712-720 |
| Narratives of ‘learning-unlearning-relearning’ during craft interventions - A case-based analysis of transformative journeys of craft communities | |
| Dr. Harleen Sahni, Nupur Chopra | 721-733 |
| Learning through practice from our century old popular rags coming back to life | |
| Estelle Dupuis | 734-747 |
| The Evolution of the Gaddi Bride's Traditional Attire: Impact of Globalization and Cultural Integration | |
| Tanishvi Thakur, Avishi Mohta, Manoj Bisht | 748-771 |
| The Roles of Creative Intermediaries in an Emerging Field of Fashion | |
| Fiona Uwamahoro | 772-782 |
| Empowering Women Artisans of Himachal Pradesh India: Merging Traditional Crafts with Contemporary Design | |
| Paramita Sarkar, Shipra Sharma | 783-793 |
| Narratives of Empowerment: The Role of Fashion in Advancing Women’s Social Status in Rural India | |
| Dr Sreenanda Palit | 794-807 |
| Understanding the relationships between poeticizing language and brand content strategies: an exploratory study using the theory of economies of worth | |
| Hélène Le Léannec Tahi, Nathalie Veg-Sala | 808-820 |
| Re-Searching Textile-Nature Partnerships: Rhythms and Rituals of Desi Oon | |
| Chauhan, Megha | 821-832 |
| Reassessing Customer Experience in Fashion Livestreaming: A Scale Development and Validation Study | |
| Kaiyan Zhu, Caroline Swee Lin Tan, Tarun Panwar | 833-857 |
| TECHNOLOGIES | |
| The Role of Technologies in the Fashion Industry | |
| Omkar Singh, Abhilasha Singh, Navanendra Singh, Vinoth R | 859-876 |
| Impact of Quality of E-Learning on Learner-Satisfaction towards E-Learning Acceptance in Fashion Education | |
| Bhaskar Das | 877-897 |
| Characteristics and forecasting of waste textile recycling in China | |
| Jiangrui Qian, Jian LI, Yunyi Wang, Jun Li | 898-911 |
| Exploration of interdisciplinary approaches to improve the wearability of next to skin e-textile applications | |
| Finn Godbolt, Daniel Collings, Andrew Lowry, Jyoti Kalyanji, Andrew Lowe | 912-930 |
| Applying ‘Salt Dyeing' in the Art Creation with Paper Mulberry Fibers | |
| Ya-Lan Lu, Feng-Yu Hsu | 931-950 |
| Queering Realities: Design Workflows and Interfaces for a more-than-human virtual Fashion Production | |
| Alexa Pollmann, Bine Roth, Jeanne Indriani | 951-971 |
| AI X sustainability 2035 – innovation dynamics, transformations & challenges to fashion management and education | |
| Ingo Rollwagen | 972-986 |
| 444.2: Posthuman Performativity and Diffraction in Fashion XR | |
| Nirma Madhoo | 987-1001 |
| Producing positive ecological value through digital fashion systems in videogames | |
| David Cumming | 1002-1007 |
| Integrating Virtual Reality into the Fashion Design Process: Enhancing Creativity and Sustainability through Digital Innovation | |
| Meenakshi Verma, Sanket Pai, Sharmila Sinha, Rajeev Kumar, Sundar Mahalingam | 1008-1018 |
| Fashion as the Future Computing | |
| Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro | 1019-1032 |
| Fashion Futures Forward: Promises and Perils of Creative Technologies for Sustainable Fashion Design | |
| Erik Gustafsson, Saina Koohnavard, Natalia Särmäkari | 1033-1046 |
| Revolutionizing Luxury Fashion in the Metaverse: A Strategic Alliance Approach to Targeting Gen-Z Consumers from Singapore | |
| Zenna Soon, Min Ji Seo | 1047-1064 |
| NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) and Luxury Fashion: A Study of Consumer Acceptance and Future Potential | |
| Kali Rawat, Harroop Kaur Grang | 1065-1087 |
| SHOWstudio: Exploring Technological Determinism and Democratization in Digital Fashion Discourses | |
| Tyla Stevenson | 1088-1094 |
| Sustainable Automated Thrifting Solution: Developing an AI-Powered Digital Wardrobe App | |
| Ketan Dhillon | 1095-1102 |
| Emerging Paradigms in Fashion Sustainability: A Comprehensive Exploration of Digital Fashion's Role in Shaping Sustainable Style | |
| Aparna Rastogi | 1103-1117 |
| Towards digital transformation of fashion and textiles education: a strategic pedagogy | |
| Carolyn Hardaker, Buddy Penfold | 1118-1131 |
| Novel antimicrobial finishing of synthetic horse blanket textiles using Ag zeolites: Advancing sustainable solutions for insect bite hypersensitivity management in equines | |
| Tanya Perkins, James Redfern, Lubomira Tosheva, Philip Sykas, Prabhuraj D. Venkatraman | 1132-1151 |
| Sharing is caring: when small players use big technologies | |
| Marco R. H. Mossinkoff | 1152-1159 |
| Inclusive Fashion Technology: Designing an Accessible Fashion Styling Application for the Visually Impaired | |
| Marisha Narula1, Disha Sharma, Prerna Mahajan | 1160-1169 |
| Reconfiguring Material Boundaries in Digital Fashion Design: Investigating Artistic Potential and Ethical Challenges of Materialising the Designer’s Body in Digital Fashion Design Practices | |
| Jan Tepe | 1170-1187 |
| Embracing Virtual Fashion Retail: A Consumer Perspective | |
| Uday Choudhary | 1188-1213 |
| Unlocking market potential: emerging designers and the rental economy | |
| Eleanor Rockett and Tanya El-Khatib | 1214-1219 |
| Utilizing Microsoft’s Copilot for AI-Driven Fashion Trend Prediction and Forecasting | |
| Kylee Payne, Melanie Mitchell, Margarita Benitez | 1220-1233 |
| Adaptation of Supply Chain in the Fashion Industry: Opportunities and Challenges | |
| Abhilasha Singh, Omkar Singh, Vinoth R, Navanendra Singh | 1234-1247 |
| Analysis of Historical Dress Towards Expanding Opportunities for Ornamentation in Menswear through Digital Knitting Practices | |
| Finn Godbolt | 1248-1272 |
| ETHICS | |
| Sushi, fashion, and anime: a postcoloniality paradigm as seen through Japanese Gen-Z identity integration | |
| Masa Takada, Maxi Heitmayer | 1274-1298 |
| How to Design Inclusive Products with a Sustainable Mindset in mind? | |
| Hui Tao, Baoting, Lin | 1299-1314 |
| Sustainable Product Development in UK Ultra-Fast Fashion: Exploring Solutions for a Sustainable Fashion Industry | |
| Catrin Cousins, Dr Patsy Perry | 1315-1331 |
| Nurturing Sustainable Solutions in the Fashion Industry Through Eco-friendly Product Development from Fruit Waste | |
| Garima Raj, Dr. Garima Bhalla | 1332-1350 |
| Fashion Marketing and AI: The Need for Developing AI Ethics for Sustainable Fashion Consumer Relationships through Transparent Practices | |
| Sugandha Suneja | 1357-1370 |
| Exploring Advanced Recycling Pathways for Textile Waste: Unlocking Value-Added Opportunities | |
| Tarun Grover, Lijing Wang, Rajiv Padhye, Tarun Panwar, Raj Kishore Nayak | 1371-1387 |
| Ethics Before Aesthetics: Time and More-Than-Human Agencies in Up-cycling Practices for the Future of Fashion (a case-study of Made With Time) | |
| Dinu Bodiciu | 1388-1405 |
| Virtual Simulation of Apparel Draping | |
| ChengYu Chen, Victor Kuzmichev | 1406-1424 |
| Sustainable business models in the fashion and luxury industry: How might circular business models impact luxury brands if they were internalized? A study on the secondhand market | |
| Alice Giannelli, Andrée-Anne Lemieux | 1425-1444 |
| Heritage and Sustainability: Leveraging Heritage Skills for Environmental and Emotional Wellbeing | |
| Dr. Garima Bhalla, Dr. M.M. Hundekar | 1445-1455 |
| Protest, Resist, Upcycle: Producing Puffer Garments Using Zero-Waste Methodology | |
| Irina Pavlova, Noël Palomo-Lovinski, Margarita Benitez | 1456-1475 |
| WORKSHOPS | |
| F/fashion Narratives | |
| Benjamin Wild1 , Jo Jenkinson | 1477-1479 |
| Fashion Business Education for Social Change: Creating impact through Case Teaching and Lego® Serious Play® | |
| Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Bethan Alexander | 1480-1485 |
| Forming Futures Through Narrative Identity in Fashion Design Fundamentals: We know what we are - Delineation and Connection in Archetypal Narrative | |
| Li Ting Huang | 1486-1494 |
| Sonic Fashion: An Experimental Practices of Unlearning Fashion | |
| Vidmina Stasiulytė | 1495-1497 |
| Planet C - How to create a global dress? How to co-create fashion beyond classroom? | |
| Ulrike Nägele, Claudia Ebert-Hesse | 1498-1501 |
| Future Fashion Perspectives: A workshop advancing inclusivity through human-centered design | |
| Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Kerri McBee-Black, Jo Gooding | 1502-1505 |
| Future Textile Enterprise – Interactive sustainability compass - a gamified view of the value chain as a decision-making aid for environmental challenges | |
| Kea Berdyszak | 1506-1509 |
| Digital Configurations, Physical Intersections | |
| Rosanna Li | 1510-1516 |
| Fashion Text as Material | |
| Caroline Stevenson, Ruby Hoette | 1517-1520 |
| One Sheet – Collaborative Communication Creativity for Large Student Cohorts | |
| Vincent Patterson, Anna Mangas | 1521-1524 |
| “Revelling in the obliqueness”: meaningful reflective pedagogies for fashion design dual professionals | |
| Dr Annamarie McKie | 1525-1527 |
| 444.2 | Volumetric VR Fashion Film | |
| Nirma Madhoo | 1528-1529 |
| Experiential Learning: A Shift in Teaching | |
| Genevieve Muwana | 1530-1533 |
| Exploring Circular Retail Through Re Tuna: A Workshop on Circular Economy Practices in Fashion Retail | |
| Mary-Ann Ball, Lars Hedegard | 1534-1538 |
| Hybrid Re/Couture: Forming fashion phygital futures through hybrid methodologies morphing artisan craft with digital integration and AI Innovation | |
| Jens Laugesen, Jose Teunissen | 1539-1544 |
| POSTERS GALLERY | |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |