Kevin Almond
Biographic Data
| ID | 6692182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Almond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Almond |
| SIGNATURE | ALMOND K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5194-0428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Future Fashion Factory
The Future Fashion Factory (FFF) was a UK based programme of research supported via the Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP); one of nine awards made under the first iteration of this fund...
Transitioning from STEM to STEAM engagement mechanisms
Performance-enhancing design for running shoes
This article discusses the politics of cheating via sportswear and amateur running footwear, where boundaries and synergies exist between the body and apparel that enhance sport performance. In 2017, Nike introduced a revolution in running shoe design, launching its Vaporfly 4% running shoes. The claims used in advertising for the shoe stated a possible increase in performance of up to 4 per cent. The design of the shoe was aesthetically distingu…
What to wear to a contemporary UK funeral
This article explores contemporary mourning dress in the United Kingdom. There is considerable research about the decline of traditional mourning wear; however, there is much less material available on what is worn to funerals in the twenty-first century. What literature exists appears to suggest that contemporary funeral outfits are shaped by the intersecting influences of multiculturalism and personalization. The city of Leeds in the United Kin…
Yorkshire Fashion Archive
Virtual reality as a new means of communication
The research analyses the challenges and opportunities that virtual reality has initiated for the communication of fashion collections since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. It focuses on a case study of the work of the Accidental Cutting fashion brand, who have pioneered the presentation of virtual fashion collections at London Fashion Week since September 2020. The brand has explored new ways to promote and market their collections investig…
The Decline of Female Mourning Wear
This article discusses substantial new research which explored the trade in UK female mourning wear by tracing the history of Frederic Forster’s Mourning Warehouse, situated on Lower Briggate in Leeds 1849–1923. It also interrogated the small collection of Forster items held by Leeds Museums and Galleries (LMG). This helped to develop an understanding of why UK female mourning wear, which dominated the High Street in the late nineteenth century, …
The Fashion Buying Career of Vanessa Denza
This article traces the long career of the international fashion buyer and recruitment consultant, Vanessa Denza. It is the first study to document Denza’s profession and incorporates research secured from access to her private work archive, which was located at her home in Berkshire, England. With no formal education in buying, Denza took a series of internships that formed the beginning of her on-the-job training as a fashion buyer and led to a…
Virtual 3D garment draping as a service
This research details a collaborative project jointly funded by Numerion Software and a Future Fashion Factory innovation challenge grant. The aim was to develop a pioneering, virtual 3D garment draping, cloud-hosted service that was fit for fashion industry needs and could be leveraged with ease. A focus group, consisting of leading fashion designers, brands, manufacturers, educationalists and fashion students, was sent a link to Numerion’s init…
A Regional Study of Women's Emotional Attachments to the Consumption and Making of Ordinary Clothing, Drawing on Archives in Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1939–1979
This research takes an interdisciplinary approach, investigating dress through the lens of regional social history by exploring women's emotional experiences related to making and consuming ordinary clothing in the period 1939–1979. A case study encouraged Yorkshire-based participants to reveal diverse stories associated with ordinary clothing. This brought the technical knowledge of making clothes and material-based research methodologies into d…
Forgotten Wardrobes
Once purchased, clothing spends the majority of its life ensconced in a wardrobe until it is selected, to be worn or is finally forgotten about or discarded. The wearing of a garment also changes over time as a person’s body size, taste and lifestyle develop. The research explores these changing facets through a pedagogic research project – Keepers of Lost Clothes – that centred on embedding sustainability within the fashion design curriculum. It…
Disrupting the Fashion Archive
Literature has documented how designers use fashion archives as explorative inspiration for designing and cutting fashion collections. (Clarke and De La Haye 2014 Clarke, Judith, and Amy De La Haye. 2014. Exhibiting fashion: Before and after 1971. New York: Yale University Press. [Google Scholar]; Rhys 2011 Rhys, Owain. 2011. Contemporary collecting theory and practice. Edinburgh: Museums Etc Ltd. [Google Scholar]; Riegels Melchior and Svensson 2…
An analysis of the shoulder pad in female fashion
This study examines the adoption of the shoulder pad in female, western fashion. Shoulder pads are essentially a form of wadding inserted into a garment that alters the natural shape of the shoulder line. They can give the illusion of a much broader shoulder, a square shoulder or a rounded, softer shoulder. In bespoke or made-to-measure fashion such as tailoring and haute couture, the use of shoulder padding can also align the shoulders if one sl…
Zero Waste Fashion Design
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Reflections on Sculptural Thinking in Fashion
What does it mean to think sculpturally in fashion practice? This paper explores some of the philosophical and practical aspects of three-dimensional thinking in fashion design; it does this by engaging with theories, concepts and philosophies related to thought and the experience of creating three-dimensional artifacts, which are common to both sculpture and fashion. Central to this relationship is the employment of the senses with respect to pe…
The Status of Pattern Cutting
This commentary documents the journey of several research initiatives, which focused upon creative pattern cutting. Instigated by a peer-reviewed journal paper entitled, “Insufficient Allure: The Luxurious Art and Cost of Creative Pattern Cutting”, the endeavors attempted to elevate concepts of tacit knowledge and the making process as a form of legitimate, academic enquiry. The projects culminated in the first peer-reviewed conference dedicated …
The spiral relationship between suffering and the production of fashionable clothes
In this article, I explore the relationships between suffering and the production of fashionable clothes. In the commercial struggle for survival many fashionable styles are discarded while some remain durable due to their adaptability to new trends and creative ideas. The aim of this research was to investigate how suffering initiates these changes in the creative process of fashion design. This was examined through a number of methodologies, wh…
Fashionably Voluptuous
This article investigates the voluptuous female silhouette in fashion. Is it a superimposed image of a desired female form or a way of accentuating the ample assets of a larger-sized body? Body image has been identified as crucial to clothing provision and fashion consumption. Research has recognized that fuller-sized and obese people were considered unhappy, unconfident, unattractive, and identified a huge level of discrimination and negativity …
Fashionably Voluptuous
This article investigates the voluptuous female silhouette in fashion. Is it a superimposed image of a desired female form or a way of accentuating the ample assets of a larger-sized body? Body image has been identified as crucial to clothing provision and fashion consumption. Research has recognized that fuller-sized and obese people were considered unhappy, unconfident, unattractive, and identified a huge level of discrimination and negativity …
Fashionably Voluptuous
This article investigates the voluptuous female silhouette in fashion. Is it a superimposed image of a desired female form or a way of accentuating the ample assets of a larger-sized body? Body image has been identified as crucial to clothing provision and fashion consumption. Research has recognized that fuller-sized and obese people were considered unhappy, unconfident, unattractive, and identified a huge level of discrimination and negativity …
The spiral relationship between suffering and the production of fashionable clothes
In this article, I explore the relationships between suffering and the production of fashionable clothes. In the commercial struggle for survival many fashionable styles are discarded while some remain durable due to their adaptability to new trends and creative ideas. The aim of this research was to investigate how suffering initiates these changes in the creative process of fashion design. This was examined through a number of methodologies, wh…
Reflections on Sculptural Thinking in Fashion
What does it mean to think sculpturally in fashion practice? This paper explores some of the philosophical and practical aspects of three-dimensional thinking in fashion design; it does this by engaging with theories, concepts and philosophies related to thought and the experience of creating three-dimensional artifacts, which are common to both sculpture and fashion. Central to this relationship is the employment of the senses with respect to pe…
The Status of Pattern Cutting
This commentary documents the journey of several research initiatives, which focused upon creative pattern cutting. Instigated by a peer-reviewed journal paper entitled, “Insufficient Allure: The Luxurious Art and Cost of Creative Pattern Cutting”, the endeavors attempted to elevate concepts of tacit knowledge and the making process as a form of legitimate, academic enquiry. The projects culminated in the first peer-reviewed conference dedicated …
Zero Waste Fashion Design
Zero Waste Fashion Design is by two of the leading protagonists in the field: Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan. Rissanen is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons, The
An analysis of the shoulder pad in female fashion
This study examines the adoption of the shoulder pad in female, western fashion. Shoulder pads are essentially a form of wadding inserted into a garment that alters the natural shape of the shoulder line. They can give the illusion of a much broader shoulder, a square shoulder or a rounded, softer shoulder. In bespoke or made-to-measure fashion such as tailoring and haute couture, the use of shoulder padding can also align the shoulders if one sl…
Disrupting the Fashion Archive
Literature has documented how designers use fashion archives as explorative inspiration for designing and cutting fashion collections. (Clarke and De La Haye 2014 Clarke, Judith, and Amy De La Haye. 2014. Exhibiting fashion: Before and after 1971. New York: Yale University Press. [Google Scholar]; Rhys 2011 Rhys, Owain. 2011. Contemporary collecting theory and practice. Edinburgh: Museums Etc Ltd. [Google Scholar]; Riegels Melchior and Svensson 2…
Forgotten Wardrobes
Once purchased, clothing spends the majority of its life ensconced in a wardrobe until it is selected, to be worn or is finally forgotten about or discarded. The wearing of a garment also changes over time as a person’s body size, taste and lifestyle develop. The research explores these changing facets through a pedagogic research project – Keepers of Lost Clothes – that centred on embedding sustainability within the fashion design curriculum. It…
Virtual 3D garment draping as a service
This research details a collaborative project jointly funded by Numerion Software and a Future Fashion Factory innovation challenge grant. The aim was to develop a pioneering, virtual 3D garment draping, cloud-hosted service that was fit for fashion industry needs and could be leveraged with ease. A focus group, consisting of leading fashion designers, brands, manufacturers, educationalists and fashion students, was sent a link to Numerion’s init…
A Regional Study of Women's Emotional Attachments to the Consumption and Making of Ordinary Clothing, Drawing on Archives in Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1939–1979
This research takes an interdisciplinary approach, investigating dress through the lens of regional social history by exploring women's emotional experiences related to making and consuming ordinary clothing in the period 1939–1979. A case study encouraged Yorkshire-based participants to reveal diverse stories associated with ordinary clothing. This brought the technical knowledge of making clothes and material-based research methodologies into d…
Virtual reality as a new means of communication
The research analyses the challenges and opportunities that virtual reality has initiated for the communication of fashion collections since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. It focuses on a case study of the work of the Accidental Cutting fashion brand, who have pioneered the presentation of virtual fashion collections at London Fashion Week since September 2020. The brand has explored new ways to promote and market their collections investig…
The Decline of Female Mourning Wear
This article discusses substantial new research which explored the trade in UK female mourning wear by tracing the history of Frederic Forster’s Mourning Warehouse, situated on Lower Briggate in Leeds 1849–1923. It also interrogated the small collection of Forster items held by Leeds Museums and Galleries (LMG). This helped to develop an understanding of why UK female mourning wear, which dominated the High Street in the late nineteenth century, …
The Fashion Buying Career of Vanessa Denza
This article traces the long career of the international fashion buyer and recruitment consultant, Vanessa Denza. It is the first study to document Denza’s profession and incorporates research secured from access to her private work archive, which was located at her home in Berkshire, England. With no formal education in buying, Denza took a series of internships that formed the beginning of her on-the-job training as a fashion buyer and led to a…
What to wear to a contemporary UK funeral
This article explores contemporary mourning dress in the United Kingdom. There is considerable research about the decline of traditional mourning wear; however, there is much less material available on what is worn to funerals in the twenty-first century. What literature exists appears to suggest that contemporary funeral outfits are shaped by the intersecting influences of multiculturalism and personalization. The city of Leeds in the United Kin…
Yorkshire Fashion Archive
Transitioning from STEM to STEAM engagement mechanisms
Performance-enhancing design for running shoes
This article discusses the politics of cheating via sportswear and amateur running footwear, where boundaries and synergies exist between the body and apparel that enhance sport performance. In 2017, Nike introduced a revolution in running shoe design, launching its Vaporfly 4% running shoes. The claims used in advertising for the shoe stated a possible increase in performance of up to 4 per cent. The design of the shoe was aesthetically distingu…
Future Fashion Factory
The Future Fashion Factory (FFF) was a UK based programme of research supported via the Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP); one of nine awards made under the first iteration of this fund...
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (13 works) · Clothing (10 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Business (5 works)