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A Look into Fashion Public Relations

In this post on the Comms Women platform, Grayce Kilkenny, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Leah Cassidy and Kate Fitch on fashion public relations in Australia, published in the PRism journal. In the article, “Parties, air-kissing and long boozy lunches? Public relations in…

Slow Fashion and Environmentally Conscious Consumption

In this post on the Comms Women platform, Ashley Luhrs, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Leonardo Ortegón Cortazar, Gabriel Cachón-Rodríguez, Laura Pascual Nebreda, Maria Luisa Medrano on environmentally conscious consumption, published by Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (Emerald). The article “Motivational Dimensions…

Online Impulse Purchases Versus Planned Purchases and the Role of Visual Attributes

In this post on the Comms Women platform, Anna Niccolini a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Clare D’Souza, Winnie Wong, Nicole El Haber, Anne Renée Brouwer & Outi Niininen on online impulse purchases published in Journal of Global Fashion Marketing (Taylor & Francis). Understanding…

Fashion with a Purpose

In this post on the Comms Women platform, Emily Emerick, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Dourado, Llover, and Fernández on communicating sustainability in fashion, published in Corporate Communications: An International Journal published by Emerald. As the fashion industry is taken by storm by…

Fashion and Class

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Emma Tanner, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Georg Simmel on fashion. In an insightful article published in The American Journal of Sociology, sociologist Georg Simmel delves into the intricate dynamics of fashion, providing a…

Costume History and Fashion Theory

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Sasha Hull, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on costume history and fashion theory by Jennifer Harris, published by Bulletin of the John Rylands Library “Costume History and Fashion Theory: Never the Twain Shall Meet?” by…

Hats, Fashion and Identity

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Jamie Ryan, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on fashion and history by Svenja Bethke and Nathalie Keigel, published by the International Journal of Fashion Studies.  In 1989, my twelve-year-old self decided on hats. A sequined…