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Consumers' Motives for Buying Upcycled Clothes
Bourová, Tereza ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Švíková, Radka (referee)
The focus of this diploma thesis is on the consumers' motives for purchasing upcycled clothing. Based on the research of available resources, this thesis firstly describes the most expanded model of clothing production, fast fashion, with special focus on the negative environmental impacts it has during different stages of a product life cycle. It later moves on to describe the traditional and more environmentally friendly model, slow fashion, and puts both these concepts (fast fashion and slow fashion) in connection with the hierarchy of waste management and the concept of circular economy. This theoretical base helps to fully understand the concept of upcycled fashion, which is thoroughly described in a separate chapter that also includes various examples of designers who focus on fashion upcycling. The last section of the theoretical part deals with motivation and motives for purchasing clothes. The empirical part of this diploma thesis focuses on how consumers perceive upcycled fashion in order to answer the main research question: What are the consumers' motives for purchasing upcycled clothes? To answer the question, qualitative research was used, specifically semi- structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with a total of twelve shoppers who have had previous personal experience...
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The Contemporary System of Fashion
Srbová, Kateřina ; Rozbořil, Blahoslav (referee) ; Kubíková, Zuzana (advisor)
The fashion industry is conditioned by building a uniform singularity of an individual through relating to what a look symbolises conceptually and objectively. [Fashion] designers operate with a societal perception of equality, social justice or feminism as if they were products. The challenge for them is not the acceptance and creation of real values, but rather to sell what these values could represent if accepted within the society. Identification with the concept of self-acceptance while watching a catwalk narrative therefore means watching a material representation of a loud affection. This affection is then being accepted by purchasing products that could represent them. The controversy is manifested by the fact how values, which have not yet been embraced by the majority of society, are being represented materially and personally. Designers dress these objects of representation into specific entities and the catwalk represents a speculative model of the future. By a gradual flow of these looks into the mainstream, society does not accept the values but merely wears them. Therefore in the present, every value is seasonal. This bachelor thesis is trying to shed some light on the contemporary system of fashion.
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The slow fashion trend and its perceptions by the millennials
Lacková, Karina ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The main topic of this bachelor thesis is millennials understanding of consumer purchasing behaviour within the fashion industry. So called generation Y is one of the biggest market forces and the emphasis will be put on perception of the concept slow fashion, and secondly on the fast fashion. For this purpose, the theoretical part presents fashion as an important part of the society. Subsequently, description of the current problematic condition of fashion industry is introduced. Furthermore, the concept of slow fashion and emerging of sustainability within the fashion industry is described. The last chapter of the theoretical part regards the Y generation where their shopping habits and fashion industry perceptions were revealed. In the practical part were conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with respondents from the generation of millennials. These interviews are subsequently analysed, and the acquired data are compared with the theoretical groundwork. The analysis of the interviews suggests that the sustainable aspect of clothing is not one of the primary factors in purchasing decisions for respondents.
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Greenwashing in fashion indrustry with special focus on H&M
Kadlečková, Daniela ; Vranka, Marek (advisor) ; Hejlová, Denisa (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the subject of greenwashing, its presence in fashion industry and it focuses on an example of one of the world's leading fashion companies - H&M. The theoretical part describes the concept of corporate social responsibility which represents a framework of all ecological initiatives of every company, it analyses its environmental aspects and explicates terms of sustainability and green marketing. The following chapter deals with the concept of greenwashing, its definitions, origins and history. The subsequent chapter describes the system of the fashion industry, its driving mechanisms that caused rapid acceleration of the textile production over recent decades, it tries to depict its impact on the environment and analyses selected sustainable efforts that are commonly made by fast fashion brands in the field of environmental CSR. The last chapter of the theoretical part deals with H&M and its history, it describes its green policy and analyses selected environmental activities that could be considered as an example of greenwashing. The practical part examines the perception of the brand H&M by confrontation of the consumers with positive or negative information about its green activities. This quantitative research was realized in the form of survey experiment.
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Selected aspects of the law of fashion industry
Kamaleeva, Renata ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (advisor) ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (referee)
This thesis defines fashion law as a specific horizontal legal field that relates to the protection of design, materials, manufacturing processes, technology, shapes, lines, colours, finishing and labelling, trademark infringement and copyright protection. Moreover, it deals with crucial topics in the field of fashion law including licensing and enforcement of rights to the products available to retailers, manufactures, and fashion designers. In addition, the thesis studies the establishment and development of fashion law abroad, particularly in the United States of America, as well as in the Czech Republic. In this thesis, the definition of fashion design includes its features and unique remarks in comparison to other types of design. Further, the thesis thoroughly examines and analyses the protection of fashion design available to retailers, fashion designers and manufactures under Czech law, especially trademark protection, copyright protection, competition law and trade dress protection. It studies various sources of law, including case law, statutes, international treaties and soft law that relate to the protection given by the Czech and other legal systems. Moreover, it analyses the concurrence of the copyright protection of design and industrial design protection. Finally, the thesis studies...
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Photographic strategy of American Apparel
Červenka, Jan ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Štefaniková, Sandra (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse American Apparel's photographical strategies and its advertising tendencies in the years 2011 - 2015. In the theoretical part of this thesis, the text will cover the principals of advertising photography and will briefly describe the history of fashion photography. Also it will mention the work of famous photographers who have worked with atypical visual methods in the past. This thesis will also describe the beginnings and the story of American Apparel and its founder Dov Charney. Based on the work of Roland Barthes and visual methods described in the book Metody výzkumu médií by Trampota and Vojtěchovská, the author will use his theoretical knowledge and analyse the photographs used in American Apparel's advertising. The key result of this thesis is a qualitative analysis based on the text Rhetoric Of The Image by Roland Barthes. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Business Plan of the Development of Company Business Activities
Sedlák, Martin ; Kunášek, Václav (referee) ; Čižinská, Romana (advisor)
This Diploma work deals with the creation of the new fashion brand with the wiew of development and diversification of business activities of the company RKM brokers s.r.o. The main current activities of the company RKM brokers s.r.o. are real estate business and development. This work includes description of the company, analyse of the fashion industry, marketing analyse of the new brand and financial plan for the first year of existence.
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Global trends in the Fashion industry
Hubková, Veronika ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The Dissertation is providing concise insight into the history of fashion industry, its global evolution and remarkable thresholds leading us into the way we can see it nowadays. Consequent focus is around today's trend of fast fashion being seen as the synonym for affordable and low-cost apparel. Vigorous supply chain analysis delivers valid arguments about negative social and environmental impact on our society as a result of recent fashion trends. Considering all above highlighted issues along with increasingly important sustainability, the theses is trying to outline a future prospect of the industry.
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