https://www.scmp.com/rss/330611/feed Timothy Parent is a contributor to the Post. He began his career at Harvard University with a charity fashion show featuring designers such as Issey Miyake and Manish Arora, and moved to China after graduation to conduct his own research. He has closely followed and contributed to the development of the fashion industry in China for the past decade; from studying street style with 100,000 original photographs to the rise of China’s dynamic designer scene, Timothy has established himself as... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Fashion and innovation have always gone hand in hand. It was the invention of the Jacquard loom in 1801 with its system of punch cards, designed to weave brocades and other patterns, that laid the foundation for modern-day computers. That innovation was brought in to democratise materials and make intricate work cheaper. However, the trend of making clothes less expensive throughout history eventually created the extreme throwaway culture of today, which pollutes twice – once when clothes are... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3045195/five-ways-technology-changing-fashion-making-it-more?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3045195/five-ways-technology-changing-fashion-making-it-more?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:00:16 +0000 Cosplay is a portmanteau of costume and play, and the first recorded instances of cosplay were in 1908 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the US, and in 1910 in Tacoma, Washington. Two fans of Mr Skygack, the world’s first sci-fi comic, both dressed up as the strip’s protagonist, an alien anthropologist, to attend “masked parties”. But unlike Halloween, a costume for a “coser” is not relegated to one day per year and then disposed of. However accepted and even celebrated a coser’s efforts may be on Halloween,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3034390/what-cosplay-china-where-home-grown-heroes-thrive-play?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3034390/what-cosplay-china-where-home-grown-heroes-thrive-play?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:30:10 +0000 The next wave of socially conscious consumerism in the fashion industry will be driven by inclusion. Inclusion in fashion used to mean casting one or two black models for catwalk shows and advertising campaigns, but nowadays models of many different ethnicities can be found on catwalks and billboards around the world. Fashion has also taken measures to become more inclusive in terms of body types, with the American market leading the increase in sizing options available to consumers. Brands such... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3021269/inclusive-fashion-why-it-next-wave-conscious-consumerism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3021269/inclusive-fashion-why-it-next-wave-conscious-consumerism?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Aug 2019 23:15:15 +0000 There is no denying the popularity of Marie Kondo’s movement towards minimal­ism. The Japanese organising guru’s 2011 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up , has sold 4 million copies worldwide and she now has her own series on Netflix, in which she takes families struggling with clutter through her process to arrive at a more minimal, and thereby blissful, existence. But the movement isn’t really about minimalism. It is about happiness. The key Kondo-ism employed in decluttering one’s... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/fashion/article/3012284/marie-kondo-sparked-decluttering-revolution-what?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/fashion/article/3012284/marie-kondo-sparked-decluttering-revolution-what?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:45:13 +0000 The rise of fashion weeks in places such as Shanghai, where fashion week begins today, is proof that the fashion world is undergoing a revolution. While the traditional “big four” fashion weeks – Paris, Milan, London and New York – are still going strong, their regard for themselves may be leaving openings for the success of “alternative” fashion weeks like Tbilisi in Georgia, Lagos in Nigeria, Seoul in South Korea and Almaty in Kazakhstan. Each of the four main fashion weeks has already carved... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3003258/how-alternative-fashion-weeks-shanghai-can-stand-beside?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3003258/how-alternative-fashion-weeks-shanghai-can-stand-beside?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:30:03 +0000 What if we completely stopped making clothes? No, we wouldn’t all be romping around frockless; brands and individuals alike tend to hold on to an excess of clothing. Rather, we would reuse, repair, and eventually recycle what we already have. We wouldn’t need to refuse clothes, as conscientious consumers are already doing. And we would finally have a truly circular fashion economy without waste. (A circular economy designs out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2185376/how-end-waste-fashion-stop-making-clothes-or-value-ones-we?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2185376/how-end-waste-fashion-stop-making-clothes-or-value-ones-we?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Feb 2019 22:00:00 +0000