This study comparatively examined the mechanical properties and appearance-related characteristics of persimmon juice single-dyed and persimmon juice-shuliang mixed-dyed hanji fabrics, with a focus on stiffness, crease recovery, and drape behavior. The mechanical property analysis showed that the mixed-dyed fabrics maintained a level of structural stability comparable to that of the single-dyed fabrics in key parameters, such as tensile linearity and shear rigidity. At the same time, the mixed-dyed fabrics exhibited relatively lower values in recovery-related indices, including bending hysteresis, shear hysteresis, and compressional resilience, compared to the single-dyed fabrics. The evaluation of appearance-related properties revealed that mixed-dyed fabrics showed reduced rigidity across stiffness, crease recovery, and drape characteristics, while retaining sufficient shape stability. These results indicate that mixed dyeing effectively moderates the excessive stiffness and strong shape fixation associated with persimmon juice single dyeing. Overall, the findings confirm that persimmon juice-shuliang mixed dyeing is an effective approach for preserving the color characteristics and structural stability of persimmon-dyed fabrics while alleviating excessive rigidity, thereby enhancing their suitability for a broader range of textile applications.

This study examines the historical origins and socio-cultural meanings of the chopine, a platform shoe worn by European women during the Renaissance, and investigates how its defining characteristic of exaggeration has been reinterpreted in contemporary footwear design. Unlike previous studies that have focused primarily on historical artifacts and contexts, this research explores how the formative principle of exaggeration has persisted and evolved in modern fashion. The study employed a literature review and an empirical analysis of fashion collection images. Data were collected from Firstview Korea, covering the 2012 S/S to 2025 F/W seasons. From an initial collection of 3,928 images, 3,275 cases were pre-screened based on the operational threshold of 3 cm forefoot elevation derived from ergonomic standards. Finally, 2,107 cases were selected for final analysis after excluding those lacking clear exaggerative characteristics. The findings are as follows: First, the identified structural types were high heels, platforms, and wedge heels. Second, exaggeration was expressed in three modes: Restrained Exaggeration (746 cases, 35.4%), characterized by material unity, minimal ornamentation, and limited color palettes; Exposed Exaggeration (681 cases, 32.3%), characterized by transparent materials such as PVC and mesh and open structures that expose the foot; and Decorative Exaggeration (680 cases, 32.3%), characterized by extreme height, volumetric expansion, and ornamental excess. This study reframes the chopine not merely as a historical artifact but as a meaningful design resource, showing that the Renaissance aesthetics of excess remain a vital source of creative expression in contemporary fashion design.

This study examines the aesthetic and fit evaluations of 3D virtual clothing, comparing perceptions between students and experts. Results indicate that basic skirt and pants designs, with minimal detailing, were evaluated similarly across design, color, material, silhouette, and appearance, suggesting a shared understanding between the two groups. However, preference analysis showed that experts favored skirts, while students preferred pants, emphasizing how experience and aesthetic criteria influence clothing evaluation. Using augmented reality (AR) applications for virtual garment assessment, most skirt-related evaluations showed no distinct differences between the groups. For pants, students evaluated waist belt width and side seam alignment more favorably, whereas experts preferred front pocket positioning. These findings highlight variations in garment fit perceptions. Challenges included difficulties in analyzing silhouettes due to dark colors, limitations in avatar movement, and insufficient material texture representation. This study underscores AR technology's potential in fashion evaluation, offering practical applications for industry professionals and fashion students. However, limitations exist due to the exclusive use of Adobe Aero and the sole focus on external garment evaluation. Future research should explore diverse avatars reflecting body shapes, gender, and age, integrate live models, and expand fit assessments across multiple AR platforms for greater accuracy and realism.

스마트 의류는 현대 패션 산업의 핵심 혁신으로 부상하였으나, 기존의 수용 연구는 기술적 성능에 편중된 결과 지속가능성이라는 본질적 차원을 충분히 규명하지 못하였다. 본 연구는 이와 같은 이론적 공백을 보완하기 위하여, 본 연구는 지속 가능성을 위한 확장된 기술 수용 모델(ETAM-S)을 제안한다. PRISMA 2020 가이드라인에 따라 체계적 문헌 고찰(Systematic literature review)을 수행하였으며, 반성적 주제 분석(Reflexive thematic analysis)을 통해 2019년에서 2025년 사이에 발표된 32편의 문헌 연구를 고찰하였다. 분석 결과, 기술적 유용성(Technical utility), 윤리적 유용성(Ethical utility), 유용성의 재정의(가치 수렴, Value convergence), 문지기(Gatekeepers), 그리고 시장 수용(Market uptake)이라는 다섯 가지 주요 주제가 도출되었다. ETAM-S 프레임워크는 지속 가능한 기술의 수용이 더 이상 사용성의 선형적 함수가 아니라, 윤리적 무결성이 기능적 인식을 근본적으로 형성하는 복잡한 인지적 협상 과정임을 설명한다. 결정적으로, 이 모델의 실질적인 타당성은 산업 선도 기업들의 운영 전략을 통해 검토된다. 미니스트리 오브 서플라이(Ministry of Supply)의 주문형 제조와 우프(Whoop)의 모듈형 아키텍처와 같은 사례들은 순환 설계 전략이 어떻게 기술적 효능과 환경적 책임성을 성공적으로 조화시키는지를 잘 보여준다. 이러한 산업적 적용 사례들은 전자 폐기물 및 조기 노후화에 대한 지각된 위험을 완화하는 것이 문지기 단계를 통과하고 성공적인 시장 수용을 촉진하는 데 필수적임을 시사한다.

This study aimed to design and develop an AI-integrated project-based learning (AI-PBL) instructional model to enhance fashion design students' ability to articulate design intent and strengthen production communication competency through a technical package (tech pack) development. Unlike prior studies that primarily focus on AI as a generative tool, this study reconceptualizes generative AI as a cognitive mediator that supports the learners' thinking processes. Using a design-based research (DBR) approach, the study conducted a needs analysis with undergraduate fashion design students (pilot n=20; main n=30), in-depth interviews with instructors (n=4), and expert validation with industry professionals (n=3). The findings revealed a significant gap between the students' proficiency in producing design outcomes and their ability to logically articulate design intent and structure technical documentation. In response, a five-stage AI-PBL instructional model was developed, consisting of design intent structuring, technical package drafting, AI-assisted checking, instructor feedback, and reflective revision. The results indicate that the model effectively supports the learners' cognitive structuring processes and improves the consistency between design intent and production instructions. This study contributes to fashion design education by proposing a process-oriented instructional model and an evaluation framework that integrates AI as a structured cognitive support tool, while ensuring ethical and pedagogical validity.

This study investigates the formative characteristics of Naive Art and examines how its visual language has been reinterpreted and transformed in contemporary fashion design. Through a review of theoretical discussions on Naive Art, its key formative elements- including simplified form, distorted proportion, planar composition, emotional color usage, childlike drawing, and narrative symbolism-were identified. Based on these elements, a qualitative case analysis was conducted on major fashion collections presented between 2015 and 2025. The findings reveal that the formative qualities of Naive Art are not merely borrowed as decorative motifs in fashion design, but are reconstructed as design principles that enhance emotional expression and formal experimentation. In particular, Naive Art characteristics were classified into five expressive types in contemporary fashion design: non-figurative form expression, planar and decorative pattern composition, color-oriented visual play, childlike drawing expression, and narrative symbolic representation. These types demonstrate how the intuitive, non-academic, and symbolic nature of Naive Art is transformed into a multilayered visual language within fashion design. This study contributes to fashion design research by reframing Naive Art as a formative and aesthetic strategy rather than a stylistic reference. The proposed classification provides a systematic analytical framework that may support future studies, fashion design practices, and design education focused on emotional and expressive expansion in contemporary fashion.

This study aims to examine the modernization of Hanbok by analyzing contemporary trends through the strategy of artification. Clothing can be interpreted in various ways depending on ethnic background, social environment, cultural context, and individual values. Beyond its practical function as wearable attire, clothing can also serve as an aesthetic object for appreciation. From this perspective, fashion provides visual pleasure and psychological satisfaction while also expanding into a medium capable of creating new meanings and values through its interaction with art. In particular, Hanbok possesses distinctive structures, forms, and wearing methods that differentiate it from Western dress, offering diverse possibilities for artistic interpretation and experimentation. Based on this perspective, this study analyzes cases of artified Hanbok to examine how Hanbok interacts with art while identifying emerging expressive tendencies. The research method combines literature review to explore the concepts of art and artification and a case analysis of representative cases of artified Hanbok which are examined to analyze their expressive characteristics. The findings reveal two major types of artification in contemporary Hanbok. The first involves combining Hanbok imagery with various artistic fields, such as spatial art, contemporary art, painting, and performing arts, where Hanbok is presented mainly as an object for visual appreciation. The second involves integrating artistic concepts into the formative structure of Hanbok by combining its forms, materials, and structures with artistic ideas or symbolic me anings. These tendencies indicate that contemporary Hanbok is expanding beyond everyday clothing into a medium of artistic and cultural expression.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of structural design modifications in improving wearing comfort and mobility of wildland firefighting clothing under actual wearing conditions. Previous studies on wildland firefighting protective clothing have primarily focused on material performance, such as flame resistance and thermal protection, while limited attention has been given to structural design factors influencing mobility. Therefore, this study analyzed the structural characteristics of a conventional wildland firefighting suit and applied structural modifications to areas where discomfort frequently occurrs during representative firefighting movements. To evaluate the effects of the modifications, wear trials were conducted with twenty adult male participants whose body dimensions corresponded to the national anthropometric data of Korean males. Participants wore both the original and modified garments under identical conditions and performed a set of representative movements reflecting typical firefighting tasks. Subjective wear evaluations were conducted for wearing comfort and mobility. The results showed that the structurally modified garment significantly improved perceived wearing comfort and mobility compared with the original garment. In particular, reductions in garment pulling and localized pressure were consistently reported during movements involving large joint flexion and dynamic body motion. These findings indicate that mobility limitations in wildland firefighting clothing can be effectively alleviated through structural design modifications without altering material properties. The study provides practical evidence supporting the importance of structural design considerations for improving the functional performance of wildland firefighting clothing.

This study examines turnover intention among beauty industry workers by applying the Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM) model and investigates the role of participation in decision-making. Data were collected from 518 workers and analyzed using factor analysis and hierarchical regression. The results show that push, pull, and mooring factors all have significant effects on turnover intention, with push having the strongest influence. Participation in decision-making was found to have a significant positive effect on turnover intention, differing from prior studies. However, its moderating effect was not significant. These findings suggest that turnover intention in the beauty industry is shaped by multiple factors, and that participation in decision-making functions as an independent predictor rather than a moderator.

African designers, historically positioned at the margins of the global fashion industry, have increasingly emerged as active cultural producers. This study undertakes a qualitative analysis of nine African fashion brands (2010-2025), applying the LVMH (2019) criteria to assess brand development while reviewing relevant academic discourse. The findings identify three dominant modes of identity expression: heritage-based identity grounded in regional traditions, youth-driven identity shaped by contemporary youth culture, and hybridized global identity that integrates African traditions with global aesthetics. These strategies illustrate how designers reconstruct evolving narratives of cultural identity, situating African fashion as a site of creativity and innovation. By challenging the Eurocentric framework and highlighting the paucity of domestic scholarship, this research underscores the necessity for greater academic engagement with African fashion and affirms its growing significance within global fashion discourses.

In sustainable fashion research, upcycled fashion design has often been examined from the perspectives of material circulation, resource conservation, and brand strategy, while the mechanisms of form generation and aesthetic significance have remained insufficiently discussed. From the perspective of deconstructivist aesthetics, this paper examines ten upcycling-related collections released by Marine Serre between 2018 and 2025, specifically analyzing the relationships between structure, material, surface, making practices, and upcycled expression. The study first reviews the theoretical intersections between deconstructivist aesthetics and upcycled design, arguing that the two are not identical but form a conditional relationship through the design logic of "dismantling-reconfiguration-re-signification." Second, based on an initial observational sample of 497 garments, the study identifies 108 upcycling-related pieces as the formal analytical sample and establishes control samples with weaker deconstructivist features. Finally, through formal analysis and qualitative content analysis, the study distinguishes strong, moderate, and weak levels of deconstructivist aesthetic expression. The findings show that some of Marine Serre's upcycled works display clear deconstructivist tendencies through pattern-piece reconstruction, juxtaposition of heterogeneous materials, visible traces of patchwork, and the re-signification of used objects. However, this tendency is not uniformly present. Upcycled design demonstrates strong deconstructivist aesthetic features only when the origins of used objects, structural reconfiguration, making process, and transformation of meaning are visualized, thereby unsettling conventional notions of garment completeness, unity, and material hierarchy. Based on these findings, this paper proposes a four-dimensional analytical framework for aesthetic research on upcycled fashion design.