CUNY Academic Commons | Rob Garfield | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/rgarfield/activity/ Activity feed for Rob Garfield. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f600212c29eb53a5971496c66241ac3c Rob Garfield created the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/719630/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:02:14 -0500 6dd57eba4ace80b4fd1e0202c78c0b62 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1775 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:22:55 -0400 Recently, I saw an article in the New York Times that brought to mind the Fabric of Cultures project. In the article, titled The Joy of Old Clothes, the artist Leann Shapton tells the author that she has been […]

]]> 4b0666ccc989bbb01ba6a973ccec1b24 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1675 Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:58:25 -0400 Poesia scritta da Iroda nella classe Italian 204

Cucite per recuperare,
Cucite per dimenticare le vostre ferite,
Cucite per ricordare la vostra provenienza
Dall’altrove
E per creare un percorso Nuovo,
Una nuova f […]

]]> 9f4ef21db72ef263915a3d38ab7c30a7 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1408 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:44:06 -0400 By Ilayda Celik-Reese

This series is a depiction of traditional belly dance and belly dance wear in the context of modern society. In his piece ​”The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Rep […]

]]> 5b2723d9a6e5344ac2fb15096f1df727 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1407 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:39:17 -0400 By Frances Lu

During my research on the topic of the kimono, I was amazed by many characteristics of thekimono that distinguish it from the western fashion system which has dominated the fashion world for a long […]

]]> e809c16f30ebb601615fea5b1cfa18cd Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1400 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:29:17 -0400 By Janine Holmes

My final project explores the visual and literal history of the Scottish Highlander kilt. I have chosen to focus on the versatility of the kilt, specifically on its cultural and military […]

]]> e1d44ef054173b78ba188c6557106442 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1391 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 21:08:26 -0400 By David Pesin

My initial interest establishes its presence in the composition of military uniform (in context) with the human body. I questioned the following; What is a uniform? What is its purpose? Why has the […]

]]> e4bc4a2c6a5a34cec229abbe3dc04bf8 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1380 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:55:34 -0400 By Gray Stearns

For nearly 100 years Dickies as a brand and workwear more generally have been focused almost entirely on functionality. Dickies, in particular, has gone through many stages of appropriation and […]

]]> 7287b08d3ed85d8d680ed958ce63ff96 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1379 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:35:44 -0400 By Urey Wang

“If I had a flower for every time thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever,” Alfred Tennyson once said. Love is hard to define and find but it seems like everyone is still seeking for […]

]]> d34724de63d807582af9592227c31d43 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1373 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:22:57 -0400 By Ash Prather

The jumpsuit is an important garment in the evolution of both unisex and youth culture. Not only was it used during World War II to allow women to participate in the workforce, but it was also […]

]]> 4ddf89acd97eaa093ba4d9283726a746 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1363 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:25:38 -0400 By Alexandra Biddle

When making or seeing beautiful textiles, often people do not know the cost it took on the environment. Before synthetic dyes and toxic wastes, fabrics and clothing were made from natural […]

]]> 9733e5396c62bb1190514dba2608aa56 Rob Garfield created the site About Data Trike https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/568260/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:48:59 -0400 dbbc651f3e0545cdbfb766f4c64bd07a Rob Garfield created the site Data TRIKE https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/562364/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:27:56 -0500 096263dfa036c4d5bfbfa18ca5ab2478 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1073 Mon, 14 May 2018 23:12:15 -0400 It was a hot July evening, during the craziness of my wedding preparations 6 years ago, when my grandmother called me to her room to discuss something important. She had her old wooden trunk open and a bunch of […]

]]> 711f8abe182055853e322a0bfd1995b2 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1065 Thu, 10 May 2018 18:27:05 -0400  

A bevy of samples, bits of clothes, scissors and needles covered the desk at the front of the classroom and Professor and crafter Kat Roberts began to speak. Discussing the history of clothing production she […]

]]> 5e839b7cb22df2ff480c28ba0a7ca1df Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1061 Wed, 02 May 2018 16:58:31 -0400 Title: “The History of Change is Filled with Clothes”

Publication: https://www.businessoffashion.com/

 

“A woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around […]

]]> a2ec72b68789a8cafe938b961a5b0e48 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1059 Tue, 01 May 2018 21:17:38 -0400 Zara has become one of the leading fast-fashion global brand in recent years. The brand’s fashion-forward designs, quick turnaround products and affordable prices are changing the fashion industry. On Zara’s o […]

]]> 7a3e9d0ee35d9194436c1f8828b64821 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1037 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:02:16 -0400 In the past several weeks, I have been following closely the press tour for Marvel’s smash hit, Black Panther. A highly anticipated adaptation of the comic books, Black Panther joyously takes its viewers on an a […]

]]> 83b7eb4d3a22f2c2d9e4f6b761be0062 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1034 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:42:59 -0400 During last decade, the concept of sustainability has become progressively integrated to the every aspect of fashion. How can we define sustainability? Why is the relationship of fashion and sustainability […]

]]> 8d3002df7f7aa1e10ba93fac9ea144f9 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1031 Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:05:29 -0400 Eisenstein Hester in her article “The Sweatshop Feminists” reflects on how feminism ideologies have been manipulated to support the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism, a subject feminism was meant to challenge. […]

]]> c4e53d3a53d2d33dcfb1d3a561272753 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1030 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:29:11 -0400 On April 24th, 2013, one of the worst disasters in fashion history happened, the collapse of Rana Plaza. This building housed five garment factories making clothing for globally recognizable fashion […]

]]> f2ac3e057454c34a9e59410975c5b936 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1026 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 02:01:20 -0400 Walking along the Hudson River, on the very edge of the city of Hoboken, my friend and I were enjoying the night sky after work when she said she missed looking out and seeing the Twin Towers. It’s not that we f […]

]]> ccd96412af32759d0d9b1863b5a85752 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1024 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:08:43 -0400 [pdf-embedder url=”http://fabricdevelopment2.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2018/04/Dirty-Fashion-Op-Ed-FINAL-PDF.pdf” title=”Dirty Fashion Op Ed FINAL PDF”]

Carolyn J Cei

]]> 184bc4772f9c0370b600b685b4b25d66 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1008 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:56:09 -0400 The essay I chose to discuss is Clothing and Memory by Iris Finkel. Iris and I were in class together for the fall 2016 semester. After reading, Peter Stallybrass’ Worn Worlds, for class, I believe both of us i […]

]]> 23fa5c32eac2ba27de1d4a158f74ce6a Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1003 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:14:48 -0400 L.Gomezdelatorre

Reading the book “Craft of Use” by Kate Fletcher made me think about the strong emotional attachment that I have developed toward some of my clothes. It is funny how sometimes, this aspect of peo […]

]]> 0b7fade531c59b5f73532ae804b79d85 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=999 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:28:38 -0400 I often ask myself this rather rhetorical question: How random is this? I remember the time when I was a little girl and my grandma used to show me the old postcards from New York that belonged to my […]

]]> 421ae71ace4844ce5581f534f6abed49 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=992 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:09:25 -0400 When does ownership transfer from owner to object? To explore this question, I engage a story about one of the oldest pieces of clothing I have, that I bought and purchased, that has redefined the idea of […]

]]> 9735649c53165b92529e44ecd2621fe2 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=991 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:38:09 -0400 As a former classmate of mine, and someone I consider an influence in my classes, Chy Sprauve’s “Dress(ing) as Self-Help: Power, Aesthetics, + Pedagogy” is still a powerful read from the catalog. So, when think […]

]]> 1706b049148017de2a4481f2b969b03f Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=951 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:15:45 -0500 Science, Technology, and New Fashion: What is “New” Fashion?

To be argumentative, fashion is never really new, as Sandy Black says herself in the introduction, when she mentions how fashion cycles, or becomes “re […]

]]> 0095f687b2923dbc8ea90c4023587222 Rob Garfield joined the group Fashion Studies @ CUNY GC https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/490626/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:17:42 -0500 8b61b0d5216dd5949333f5582f4117ab Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=887 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:24:53 -0400 The T-shirt, a short-sleeved round-neck white one with a graphic on the front is the one that I chose to use for this project. I bought it in a small village my husband and I visited while on our honeymoon in […]

]]> b53200ff3552e6b3e4b1662b26f90c72 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=760 Sat, 17 Dec 2016 05:00:57 -0500 Clara Ferrara

MALS-71200

Prof. Paulicelli

Ethnography

Ethnography is the study of society and cultures. The studies are conducted in research sites. Through ethnographic research, one can collect information […]

]]> cd56b1c5f9e8dfe792ca6f2e3152494b Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=759 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:43:33 -0500 I decided to use my blog: http://www.bonesboudoir.com to keep a virtual scrapbook about what I learned and wanted to expand upon from class. You can click on the links below to see more.
Post 1/September […]

]]> b43292f7a3200cc9259b75cd69b36739 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=757 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 21:12:46 -0500 Hello all:

My final project, “Top Ten Wardrobe Essentials,” can be read here. (Inspirations: Richard Sennett, Ellen Craft, Anuschka Rees)

Enjoy the holidays everyone!

Chy Sprauve (IDS 82000)

]]> 22b695288efdf4c449a7074e7da30c0f Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=755 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:16:59 -0500 Scrapbook

]]> 4ecf79e1579cf54f6fd5a44fd162a917 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=753 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:07:21 -0500

]]> 3876e72c1e79c1d551bae3a29f3bdf74 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=752 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:27:19 -0500 Visual Scrapbook
for Class

]]> 97f71d4bdfa28f5edefb347e13c1aaae Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=751 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:43:53 -0500 c7ac6bbe627c76b71fac7df755d88c55 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=748 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:00:51 -0500  

]]> f2566a942b234208ac1f03e41604339d Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=750 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:59:16 -0500  

]]> 96b682dfad50b4963f27be72b2d80cd2 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=712 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 19:39:28 -0500 We had a successful second Zero Waste workshop with Tabitha from Tabii Just and I wanted to post some pictures from the class below:

As always, remember you can find out […]

]]> a3bca62712fc1a13294a6a845089e533 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=704 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:16:53 -0500 For the site of my ethnography project I chose the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill, specifically the block of Bergen St between Smith and Court streets, an area that has held my attention for years.

What […]

]]> 4e6688870ad8a5f94f7c9d832d0a11b0 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=699 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:23:23 -0500 As a Modern Orthodox Jew, my relationships with both the secular and religious worlds are complicated to say the least. These complications apply to every aspect of my life, including my clothes.

Jewish law […]

]]> 331f76fec57eb30a77a85b5fb0dfcb9c Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=697 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 04:30:40 -0500 Rayon? Maybe silk? Perhaps it was polyester. Sleeveless, white, transparent. White buttons up the front, the collar had slightly extended tips, a bit of a seventies flair to it. Effortlessly fitted.

My former […]

]]> 234e89f2232c6b55abc3e57e9c8ad099 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=693 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 04:29:08 -0500 While reading Umberto Eco’s Lumbar Thought, I immediately thought of my leather jacket. This jacket is an item that constantly (almost hauntingly) reminds me of my body, as well as how bodies exists in s […]

]]> 88aefb59c0fd9185edf0fbcc4486d1fe Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=688 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:59:47 -0500 Alabama Chanin sought to understand a symbol when she undertook the painstaking task of deconstructing a t-shirt, seam by seam, just to hand sew it back together again. Her inquiry lead her to start a now famous […]

]]> 5b515b57081c255989fba57089c681d0 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=681 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:41:32 -0500 A large white tent, a simple folding table, two wire containers, fitted with large white plastic bags, a sign, mounds of plastic bags, a scattered pile of flyers and papers, a tall man in a black Carhartt jacket […]

]]> cffb8319176dd64a01ef993f0e8e846a Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=678 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:44:54 -0500 I wrote the essay “T-Shirt” for our class’s (MALS 71200 / IDS 82000) second essay. In it, I discuss cotton manufacturing, clothing designer Mary Ping, and how to find the best t-shirt, according to the exp […]

]]> af218f7d121b8c2b5a077eee03eafeeb Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=677 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:37:42 -0500 I wrote the essay “Tie Rack” to put Stallybrass and Eco in conversation with one another for our class’s (MALS 71200 / IDS 82000) first essay. Click here to read.

]]> 5c309a867b2492c0e4b3135ce3518363 Rob Garfield wrote a new post on the site Fabric of Cultures Test https://fabrictest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=671 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:20:06 -0500 French philosopher Albert Camus said, “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future” (Rabalais). On […]

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