Digital Fashion Innovation from the Perspective of Artistic Design Research
Jan Tepe
2021 (English), In: 2nd Digital Fashion Innovation Symposium. Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester, United Kingdom. June 28-29, 2021. (Refereed) [Artistic Work] Published
Research in fashion with regard to digital innovations is mainly concerned with the improvement of digital prototyping processes for garment constructions or the accurate representation of human bodies and textile materials in digital spaces. While research in this respect is necessary, it mainly covers a segment of the fashion system as a whole as it is primarily concerned with industrial needs. Artistically inclined designers and institutions of fashion design, who seek to find alternative possibilities to design and experience dress, equally benefit from research inquiries that aim to find transformative potentials of digital technologies for their practices. It is thus necessary that future research in fashion also consider the needs of these designers and institutions, to contribute to a holistically developing fashion system concerning digital innovation inputs.