Katalin Medvedev
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katalin Medvedev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katalin |
| FAMILY NAME | Medvedev |
| SIGNATURE | MEDVEDEV K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1814-8233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A woke brand? An analysis of Nike and the limits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the fashion-industrial complex
In an era marked by heightened social consciousness and impacted by Black Lives Matter (BLM), fashion brands worldwide endeavour to position themselves as socially responsible. This study scrutinizes Nike, a global leader in the fashion-industrial complex, and its ‘woke’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. By conducting a detailed case study of Nike’s ‘woke’ CSR initiatives and analysing social media user comments, the research seeks…
Maternity swimwear
Maternity swimwear is one of the least researched garment types despite its ability to create a unique affective experience for women during gestation. It contains as well as exposes and liberates the changing female form during pregnancy. The study explores the history of this ‘second skin’ and illuminates how it relates to sociocultural ideals and human agency. It also investigates the changing perceptions of pregnancy and how maternity wear ev…
How beauty product use links to Black Lives Matter
This study examines the influence of Black women’s beliefs of health threats on purchase intentions towards beauty products. It investigates whether Black women use natural beauty products to avoid health threats and injustice. Two focus groups were conducted with eleven female African American participants as part of a larger multi-method study. This article details the focus group sessions in which participants shared their stories and beliefs …
Bolivian textile crafts and the subversion of institutionalized sustainability
This article describes the tensions between institutionalized and grassroots forms of sustainability and their subsequent effects on textile artisans in La Paz, Bolivia. Principles of the indigenous cosmology Suma Qamaña are applied to the twenty-first-century challenge of environmental degradation and governmental corruption in the description of craft practices at two artisan collectives in La Paz. Suma Qamaña is an expression of the harmonious…
Sartorial Appearance Management Strategies of Creative Professional Women over Age 50 in the Fashion Industry
Women in the United States are often subjected to unrealistic standards of ideal appearance. These ideals are even more extreme in the fashion industry. Because professional women who hold creative positions in the fashion industry are in the business of creating style and beauty, there is a high level of expectation toward them to maintain their dress and appearance at a not explicitly stated, but anticipated, and often unrealistic standard. In …
Age, experience and creative labour
This qualitative study introduces six creative fashion professionals, aged 55‐74, who started their careers in the 1980s. They have managed to overcome the complex challenges of employment and remain active in the highly competitive and youth-centric fashion industry of New York City. The participants represent key occupations that drive the behind-the-scenes creative force in the industry’s supply chain. While their long careers have equipped th…
Dressing for freedom and justice
Clothing communicates our attitudes and positions in the world, particularly when a dress is used as a vehicle for protest. This article has two goals. First, it analyses the history of protest dress of Black American resistance movements. Second, it scrutinizes the public perception of these movements by reviewing white media images of Black bodies participating in the resistance. The media shapes our world as well as public perceptions. It is l…
A twist in the retail
Although the traditional focus in fashion studies on Western Europe and America has been widely critiqued, the examination of what influences and major institutions were critical in the diffusion of fashion in Eastern and Central Europe is still limited. To counter this drawback, this study charts the history of the development of fashion and fashion retailing in one Eastern Central European capital, Budapest, Hungary, from the early nineteenth c…
Manos del Uruguay
This paper is a discussion of the tensions between localism and globalism and their subsequent effects on the artisanal craft industry within the prevailing dynamics of the hegemonic capitalist market place. Global demand for artisanal craft has enabled a spatial relationship between producer and consumer, creating a sense of place that transcends traditional localities. Drawing from the Sumak Kawsay cosmology, this study suggests alternative, no…
Hungarian women toe the line
This article suggests that fashion communication, especially fashion advertising, is a form of propaganda, and that propaganda is sometimes disguised as a form of sartorial communication. Just as advertisers and marketers in modern corporate societies use propaganda to mobilize a target audience and to sell goods infinitely, early Communism in Hungary set its sights on women and sought to generate its ideology and practices through them. Understa…
The roots of change in the contemporary Cambodian fashion scene
This article problematizes the lack of interest among fashion scholars in Cambodia, despite the fact that Cambodia is rapidly maturing into an important player in the global fashion industry. However, the primary focus of the article is a case study of the indigenous textile/fashion production of Project Wisdom from the Forest (PWF). It demonstrates that the PWF is a pioneer and exemplar of the cultural, social, economic and environmental revital…
Picking up the Threads
Picking up the Threads:Model Approach Helps Cambodia Design a New Fashion Image Katalin Medvedev (bio) and Britanny Reef (bio) From 1965 to 1975, under the administration of President Lyndon Johnson and then during Richard Nixon's "secret war," Cambodia was bombed as part of an effort to destabilize the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and the rurally based communist Khmer Rouge. However, the U.S. bombing campaign actually strengthened the Kh…
Designing from Dumpsters
This article, based on field research carried out in Cambodia in 2008, outlines current government-backed and private channels of fashion production in the country. It also describes how fashion has been created and consumed in Cambodia in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In addition, it introduces a case study of an environmentally sound fashion design project with an impressive social agenda, the Home-based Production Project (HBPP…
Awakening to the desires of older women
Awakening to the desires of older women
Age, experience and creative labour
This qualitative study introduces six creative fashion professionals, aged 55‐74, who started their careers in the 1980s. They have managed to overcome the complex challenges of employment and remain active in the highly competitive and youth-centric fashion industry of New York City. The participants represent key occupations that drive the behind-the-scenes creative force in the industry’s supply chain. While their long careers have equipped th…
Designing from Dumpsters
This article, based on field research carried out in Cambodia in 2008, outlines current government-backed and private channels of fashion production in the country. It also describes how fashion has been created and consumed in Cambodia in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In addition, it introduces a case study of an environmentally sound fashion design project with an impressive social agenda, the Home-based Production Project (HBPP…
Awakening to the desires of older women
Picking up the Threads
Picking up the Threads:Model Approach Helps Cambodia Design a New Fashion Image Katalin Medvedev (bio) and Britanny Reef (bio) From 1965 to 1975, under the administration of President Lyndon Johnson and then during Richard Nixon's "secret war," Cambodia was bombed as part of an effort to destabilize the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and the rurally based communist Khmer Rouge. However, the U.S. bombing campaign actually strengthened the Kh…
The roots of change in the contemporary Cambodian fashion scene
This article problematizes the lack of interest among fashion scholars in Cambodia, despite the fact that Cambodia is rapidly maturing into an important player in the global fashion industry. However, the primary focus of the article is a case study of the indigenous textile/fashion production of Project Wisdom from the Forest (PWF). It demonstrates that the PWF is a pioneer and exemplar of the cultural, social, economic and environmental revital…
Hungarian women toe the line
This article suggests that fashion communication, especially fashion advertising, is a form of propaganda, and that propaganda is sometimes disguised as a form of sartorial communication. Just as advertisers and marketers in modern corporate societies use propaganda to mobilize a target audience and to sell goods infinitely, early Communism in Hungary set its sights on women and sought to generate its ideology and practices through them. Understa…
A twist in the retail
Although the traditional focus in fashion studies on Western Europe and America has been widely critiqued, the examination of what influences and major institutions were critical in the diffusion of fashion in Eastern and Central Europe is still limited. To counter this drawback, this study charts the history of the development of fashion and fashion retailing in one Eastern Central European capital, Budapest, Hungary, from the early nineteenth c…
Manos del Uruguay
This paper is a discussion of the tensions between localism and globalism and their subsequent effects on the artisanal craft industry within the prevailing dynamics of the hegemonic capitalist market place. Global demand for artisanal craft has enabled a spatial relationship between producer and consumer, creating a sense of place that transcends traditional localities. Drawing from the Sumak Kawsay cosmology, this study suggests alternative, no…
Dressing for freedom and justice
Clothing communicates our attitudes and positions in the world, particularly when a dress is used as a vehicle for protest. This article has two goals. First, it analyses the history of protest dress of Black American resistance movements. Second, it scrutinizes the public perception of these movements by reviewing white media images of Black bodies participating in the resistance. The media shapes our world as well as public perceptions. It is l…
How beauty product use links to Black Lives Matter
This study examines the influence of Black women’s beliefs of health threats on purchase intentions towards beauty products. It investigates whether Black women use natural beauty products to avoid health threats and injustice. Two focus groups were conducted with eleven female African American participants as part of a larger multi-method study. This article details the focus group sessions in which participants shared their stories and beliefs …
Bolivian textile crafts and the subversion of institutionalized sustainability
This article describes the tensions between institutionalized and grassroots forms of sustainability and their subsequent effects on textile artisans in La Paz, Bolivia. Principles of the indigenous cosmology Suma Qamaña are applied to the twenty-first-century challenge of environmental degradation and governmental corruption in the description of craft practices at two artisan collectives in La Paz. Suma Qamaña is an expression of the harmonious…
Sartorial Appearance Management Strategies of Creative Professional Women over Age 50 in the Fashion Industry
Women in the United States are often subjected to unrealistic standards of ideal appearance. These ideals are even more extreme in the fashion industry. Because professional women who hold creative positions in the fashion industry are in the business of creating style and beauty, there is a high level of expectation toward them to maintain their dress and appearance at a not explicitly stated, but anticipated, and often unrealistic standard. In …
Age, experience and creative labour
This qualitative study introduces six creative fashion professionals, aged 55‐74, who started their careers in the 1980s. They have managed to overcome the complex challenges of employment and remain active in the highly competitive and youth-centric fashion industry of New York City. The participants represent key occupations that drive the behind-the-scenes creative force in the industry’s supply chain. While their long careers have equipped th…
A woke brand? An analysis of Nike and the limits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the fashion-industrial complex
In an era marked by heightened social consciousness and impacted by Black Lives Matter (BLM), fashion brands worldwide endeavour to position themselves as socially responsible. This study scrutinizes Nike, a global leader in the fashion-industrial complex, and its ‘woke’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. By conducting a detailed case study of Nike’s ‘woke’ CSR initiatives and analysing social media user comments, the research seeks…
Maternity swimwear
Maternity swimwear is one of the least researched garment types despite its ability to create a unique affective experience for women during gestation. It contains as well as exposes and liberates the changing female form during pregnancy. The study explores the history of this ‘second skin’ and illuminates how it relates to sociocultural ideals and human agency. It also investigates the changing perceptions of pregnancy and how maternity wear ev…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Advertising (4 works)