About the Journal

Fashion Highlight is an academic journal dedicated to research in the field of fashion design, with a perspective that investigates both the conception, design, production and communication of the fashion product, and its cultural, aesthetic and technological implications. Fashion is a constantly evolving sector, capable of reflecting and influencing the transformations of society through design, innovation and experimentation.

The journal welcomes studies that explore fashion design in its many forms: from the design and production of fabrics, garments and accessories, to the analysis of applied materials and technologies, to connections with related disciplines that enrich the sector, such as communication, economics and social sciences. Although rooted in the field of fashion design, Fashion Highlight recognises the value of transdisciplinary intersections, welcoming contributions that broaden the understanding of fashion as a cultural, economic and technological phenomenon.

The aim of the journal is to offer a space for discussion for researchers and professionals, also thanks to its open access mode, investigating emerging trends, design innovations and transformations of the fashion system in local and global contexts.

Fashion Highlight thus proposes itself as a point of reference for the scientific debate on fashion design, combining academic rigour and openness towards the transitions of the present and the future.

 

DOUBLE BLIND RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW

Each submission to Fashion Highlight is subject to a rigorous quality control and peer-review evaluation process before receiving a final decision. 

If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to two anonymous reviewers. The peer review process is double-blind. If the reviews are positive, but the manuscript requires to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version.

The Editors are responsible for conducting the peer-review process and for the final decision on the submitted article.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The Journal provides immediate open access to its content comply with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access”, we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain is to guarantee the original authors with control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in our journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0). Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites prior to and during the submission process and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication without embargo. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Fashion Highlight publishes 2 regular issues per year. Manuscripts are accepted at any time through the online submission system.

PREPRINT POLICY

The Journal allows authors to deposit draft versions of their paper into a suitable preprint server, on condition that the author agrees to the below:

• The author retains copyright to the preprint and developed works from it, and is permitted to submit to the journal.
• The author declares that a preprint is available within the cover letter presented during submission. This must include a link to the location of the preprint.
• The author acknowledges that having a preprint publicly available means that the journal cannot guarantee the anonymity of the author during the review process, even if they anonymise the submitted files (see review policy).
• Should the submission be published, the authors are expected to update the information associated with the preprint version to show that a final version has been published in the journal, including the DOI linking directly to the publication.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors who publish with Fashion Highlight agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in Fashion Highlight.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

PUBLICATION FEES

Fashion Highlight does not charge any publication fee.

WAIVER INFORMATION

Fee waivers do not apply at Firenze University Press because our funding does not rely on author charges. 

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Responsibilities of Fashion Highlight's editors, reviewers, and authors concerning publication ethics and publication malpractice are described in FUP’s Guidelines on Publication Ethics.

CORRECTIONS and RETRACTIONS

In accordance with the generally accepted standards of scholarly publishing, Fashion Highlight does not alter articles after publication: "Articles that have been published should remain extant, exact and unaltered to the maximum extent possible".
In cases of serious errors or (suspected) misconduct Fashion Highlight publishes corrections and retractions (expressions of concern).

Corrections
In cases of serious errors that affect or significantly impair the reader’s understanding or evaluation of the article, Fashion Highlight publishes a correction note that is linked to the published article. The published article will be left unchanged.

Retractions 

In accordance with the "Retraction Guidelines" by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Fashion Highlight will retract a published article if: 

• there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation);
• the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication);
• it turns out to be an act of plagiarism;
• it reports unethical research.

An article is retracted by publishing a retraction notice that is linked to or replaces the retracted article. Fashion Highlight will make any effort to clearly identify a retracted article as such.
If an investigation is underway that might result in the retraction of an article Fashion Highlight may choose to alert readers by publishing an expression of concern.

ARCHIVING

Fashion Highlight and Firenze University Press are experimenting a National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service.