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Advancing Unconventional Bridal Gowns Detailing Designs through Cosmopolitan Localism to Promote Environmental Sustainability


Josephine Opoku
Akosua Mawuse Amankwah
Dr. Ginn Bonsu Assibey

Abstract

This study focused on exploring unconventional designs through cosmopolitan localism to promote environmental sustainability in the field of fashion through the experimental method. The research aimed at using upcycled materials for garment detailing on bridal gowns and employed a studio-based design method, which consisted of problem discovery and definition, unconventional bridal fashion conceptualization, and upcycled material experimentation for garment development and construction for bridal fashion. A reflective journal was used as a data-gathering process during the study. In the area of analysis, reflexivity was used. The result of the study showed that different types of non-fabric and fabric materials can be improvised through cosmopolitan localism for innovative construction techniques through machines and handcrafting techniques for creating a complete bridal fashion detailing that advances the concept of environmental sustainability. Authors recommend that sustainable bridal detailing from natural and artificial materials be explored further in other fashion categories through cosmopolitan localism apart from the bridal gowns to perpetuate the circular economy embraced by the fourth industrial revolution.


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