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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.

 

Fashion Highlight is indexed in Scopus
ISSN: 2975-0466 [Online]

 

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 7 (2026)
THE LANGUAGES OF FASHION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON FASHION DISCOURSES
Guest Editors: Benjamin Wild and Natalia Berger
Full papers deadline: 10 January 2026

Current IssueNo SI1 (2025): Special Issue

Published 14 July 2025

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Towards a New Sustainable and Relational Paradigm for the Fashion System
Elisabetta Cianfanelli
18-20
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3559
Prosperity Fashion
Paolo Franzo
22-24
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3560

Interviews

Interview with Kate Fletcher
Paolo Franzo
28-30
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3607
Interview with Ron Wakkary
Margherita Tufarelli
32-38
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3608

Essays

The Wardrobe as Collection
Paola Di Trocchio
44-50
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3197
Beyond Domesticity: Revaluing Gendered Textile Arts in the Context of Relational Prosperity : Maria Lai and the Relational Value of Textile Crafts in Fashion
Jacopo Battisti
52-60
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3172
Relational Records: Exploring Historical Prosperity Fashion Within Business History
Alice Janssens, Liz Tregenza
62-71
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3121
Prospering Dress: Exploring Textile_Knowledges and Situated_Fashions
Dagmar Venohr
74-83
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3220
​Co-Creating Sustainable Fashion: A Participatory Approach for Involving Users in the Design Process
Maria Maciejko, Alberto Iberbuden, Alejandro Lecuna
84-93
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3124
A New Fashion Design Practice as Enabler for a Fashion System Change
Christiane Luible, Johannes Braumann
96-106
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3115
Meaning Before Making: How Digital Tools Might Enable Material and Immaterial Value for Sustainable Design
Rosemary Wallin
108-118
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3138
Hyperlocal Knitting: Building Sustainable Networks with 3D Seamless Technology
Patricia Chircop
120-129
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3129
The Notion of Prosperity in the Aesthetics of Fashion: A Religious Genealogy
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
132-139
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3225
The Mutual Contribution of Visual Epistemology, Visual Literacy and Eco Fashion Design to the Building of Prosperity Fashion
Magdalena Germek
140-146
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3176
Negative Aesthetics and the De-Beautification of Fashion: The Taxonomy of Disgusting Fashion
Danae Ioannou
148-155
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3173
Cultivating a Relational Fashion System for Prosperity: Embracing Decolonial Embodiment and More-than-Human Care Through the Practice of Deep-Wearing
Jennifer Whitty, Yan Yuan, Oli Dong
156-169
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3205
RECOMPOSE: An Invitation to Explore the Pedagogical Environment as a Regenerative Front-Line
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Louis Alderson-Bythell, Zowie Broach, Lee Roach
172-185
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3137
Sustainable Design for Healthy Communities: Fashion Activism Through Service-Learning
Barbara Trippeer, Johnnie Stark, Hae Jin Gam, Phillip Park
186-196
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3130
On the Edge of the Abyss: A Step Back Toward Prosperity Fashion
Nuno Nogueira, Ines Simoes
198-206
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3105
Wool as a Complex Economic, Environmental, Social, and Cultural System: Strengths, Limits and Opportunities in Italy’s Inner Peripheries
Vittorio Giannetti, Marco Manfra
210-219
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3133
Wool, “Rifiutocreatura” in Evolution: Valorization and Regeneration of Italian Native Wool and Post-Consumer Waste
Gianni Montagna, Elena Pucci
220-229
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3462
Start from Crafts: When Entrepreneurs Take a Step Back to Re-Create Small-Scale Companies
Francine Barancourt
230-236
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3206
Algorithmic Culture and Sartorial Prosperity: From Labour to Community Building
Anna Keszeg, Terike from Budapest
238-243
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3132
Grow Me a Wardrobe: How Three-Dimensional Biofabrication Strategies for Bacterial Cellulose Can Reframe Fashion Practices Through Making and Interacting with Non-Archetypal Bacterial Cellulose-Based Wearable Objects
Carolina De Lara, Daijiro Mizuno
246-256
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3039
Sensory Repair: Crafting Inclusion Through Designing with the Senses
Brittany Thorpe
258-264
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3112
Artistic Connections: Re-Framing Printed Textile Design Processes for Fashion Based on the Chintz
Danielle Kremer
266-274
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3314
Unveiling Potential Landscapes in the Age of Dematerialization and Digital Progression
Carlos Gago, Anna Zinola
278-286
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3167
PARASULI Project. Upcycling of Beach Umbrellas for a Sustainable and Prosperous Fashion: How Prosperity-Oriented Thinking Redefines Fashion Design Through Upcycling and Community Collaboration
Maria Cristina Falsone
288-295
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3171
Re-Fashioning Leather: A Study to Bring to the Fore a New Awareness of How a Specific Material (Leather) Does Not Have to Be Finite as Nature
Kayla Owen
296-303
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3149
Invisible Fashion: Reimagining Fashion Design and Experience Beyond Visual Appearance.
Martina Motta, Giovanni Maria Conti
314-322
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3079
Strategic Design Approach into Fashion System: Designing for Local Craftsmanship Developments
Gianni Denaro, Loredana Di lucchio
304-313
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3143
Prosperity Fashion in Palestine: Experiences Between the Past and the Future
Diana Mounayer
326-334
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3170
Biodesign in Colombia: Turning Fashion Adversity into Innovation Amidst Socioeconomic Challenges
Carolina Obregon, Giovanna Danies Turano
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3221
Exploring the Role of Local Fashion MSEs in Vietnam’s Creative Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
Ms Lam Hong Lan, Associate Professor Donna Cleveland
348-359
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3101
Embodying Prosperity: How Handspun and Handwoven Pattu Textiles Reflect Sustainable Fashion and Community Resilience in Western Rajasthan
Pramila Choudhary
360-366
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3152
Shades of Green: Unveiling the Structures and Processes of Greenwashing in Fashion
Mollie Shield
370-377
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3106
Discovering the Myth of Metaverse Fashion: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Myth-Making and Prosperity Fashion
Natalia Berger
378-387
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3230
Play to Prosper in Fashion Give Me Back My Agency!
Giulia Teverini, Letizia Vaccarella
388-398
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3123
A Digital Approach to Slow Fashion: Mapping Second-Hand Stores in Porto
Susana Barreto, Ana Carolina Fidelis
402-411
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3076
Shaping a Purpose-Driven Fashion Industry by Design
Erminia D'Itria
412-421
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3081
Sustainable Fashion Through Traditional Turkish Women’s Clothing Techniques
Dr. Ceren Aktas, Elvan Ozkavruk Adanir
422-429
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3117
System Design for the Sustainable Enhancement of Italian Wool Production Chain: The Integrated Approach of FiLA National Observatory Project
Rossana Gaddi, Luciana Mastrolonardo
430-438
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3181
Rethinking Fashion: Sustainable, Integrated and Regenerative Prosperity
Maria Antonietta Sbordone, Ilenia Carmela Amato, Eleonora Cecere
440-451
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3286
SONIC PALETTE: An Experimental Exploration for Inclusive Fashion Practices
Vidmina Stasiulytė
454-463
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3108
Nature, Weave and Color: Plant Resources in the Sustainable Design and Manufacture of Accessories for Prosperity Fashion
Carmina Escandell Lorente, Amparo Galbis Juan
464-472
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3126
Next-Gen Fur Design: Prioritising Material Properties
Isabella Enrica Alevato Aires, Stefan Lie
474-486
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3128
Analyzing Sustainability in Fashion Through Bio-Synthetic Materials
Filiz Ozbengi Uslu, Dr. Arzu Vuruskan
488-500
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3156
From Flashes to Lifecycles: How Age-Diversity Can Feed Prosperity Fashion
Dorrit Bøilerehauge
504-513
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3116
From Waste to Wealth: Redefining Prosperity in Fashion: Harnessing Collective Intelligence for Environmental and Social Impact
Joanne Hayek
514-531
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3134
Problematizing Fashion Sustainability
Aino Helena Korhonen
532-540
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3218
Fashion as Flourishing: A Theoretical Approach Going Beyond Sustainability
Paulina Ryden
544-551
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3135
Caring for Fashion by Doing the Laundry: Generating Alternative Acts of Consumption from the Laundry Basket
Helga Halldorsdottir
552-561
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3136
Prosperity in Italian Fashion: Networks of Care. How Micro and Small Enterprises Redefine the Relation Between the Economic and the Social
Ludovica Carini, Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice, Cecilia Cornaggia
562-572
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3166
Contrasting Hierarchical and Decentralised System Analogies to Revalue Prosperity: Decentralised System Analogies Enabling Fashion Sustainability
Lisa Nel, Desiree Smal, Allan Munro
574-584
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3140
Handle with Care: Sustaining Chic-Ness with Thrifted Clothes
Alessandra Von Burg, Nathaniel French, Terry Matthews, Roksanna Keyvan, Toni Hines, Farah Alsakhita, Gina Giorgio
586-597
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3145
Rewear, Redefine, Co-design: Towards an Ontology of Pre-Loved and Personalized Fashion
Michela Musto
598-608
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3160
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