Name Lina Lee
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Integrative Seminar 2: Fashion
Research Paper Proposal
Please provide responses for each of the following headings related to your Seminar research paper. Share your research proposal with the class via Canvas and post this to your LP.
Research Question (see chapters 3-4 of The Craft of Research for more info on fleshing this out)
I am studying Fast fashion because I want to find out what/why/how it affects the current wave of designers and how they work in order to help my reader understand how the fashion industry tackles being one of the most environmentally unfriendly industry.
Keywords (terms related to your research topic that you’re using to find academic sources)
ecology, fast fashion, forever21, H&M, global warming and fashion, denim, water, coal, natural resources, depletion of natural resources,
Background/Context (what you currently know about this topic)
I took AP Environmental sciences, so I am familiar with ecology. I learned about fast fashion, the basics, when I was in 8th in a camp that was run by a reused fabric store.
Preliminary Argument (your current stance on the research question based on initial research)
I intend to argue that fast fashion is a force that needs to be changed and dealt with but not only that the fashion industry needs to be re-invented to more eco-friendly.
Significance (the “so-what” factor; think about the significance to our IS2 class, Parsons, The New School, and the larger fashion community)
The significance of this research is that climate change is a thing that is happening and it has to be dealt with. Fashion is an industry driven by society, and at the rate the world is going, there might not even be an industry.
Research Outcomes (discuss the final paper and the larger connections you intend to make to your Studio project)
My research will result in a final research paper and a photo spread that talks about nature in the city.
Annotated Bibliography (include a CMOS citation and brief annotation for each. See the weekly slides for more information on this portion.)
Bruzzi, Stella, and Pamela Church. Gibson. Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations, and
Analysis. London: Routledge, 2000.
An article about how fashion photography has changed over the years following the 90s
in particular.
“Here Are the Top-Performing Fast Fashion Brands on Social.” Social Media Today. 2015.
Accessed March 11, 2016. http://www.socialmediatoday.com/technology-data/aag/2015-10-18/here-are-top-performing-fast-fashion-brands-social.
An article about how the fast fashion industry is made up, who the big payers are and who the buyers of the product is.
“The-issues.” Fast Fashion, “value” Fashion. Accessed March 11, 2016.
https://www.ethicalfashionforum.com/the-issues/fast-fashion-cheap-fashion.
THe article talks about what the fashion industry has to pay for in order to maintain the low
coast and an over view of what fast fashion is in the early 2000s to the mid 2000s.
Steele, Valerie. “A Museum of Fashion Is More Than a Clothes-Bag.” Fashion Theory: The Journal
of Dress, Body & Culture Jour Dres Bod Cul 2, no. 4 (1998): 327-35.
An article about the analyzing fashion history through numerous steps.
“Op-Ed | Fast Fashion Winners and Losers.” The Business of Fashion. 2013. Accessed March 11,
An intensive study into who and where clothes for a fast fashion company zara is made. In comparison to bigger companies like Walmart and Sears make their clothes.
Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicgo:
University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This is a book about how to write good research papers, containing the components to
research and writing.