Augmented fashion: immersive interactions for sustainable heritage in fashion and textiles

Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. (2024)
Book Chapter
CROSS, K., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2024. Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. In Schramme, A. and Verboven, N. (eds.) Sustainability and the fashion industry: can fashion save the world? Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 4, pages 56-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032659053-4

As part of Augmented Fashion, an interdisciplinary research project involving fashion, textiles and computing disciplines, a series of workshops were facilitated; this chapter discusses the emergent themes from the 'Redesigning for Creative Recovery'... Read More about Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories..

Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. (2023)
Journal Article
CROSS, K., MESJAR, L., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2025. Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. International journal of fashion design, technology and education [online], 18(1): conscious communities: exploring contemporary research and practice within fashion and textiles higher education, pages 15-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2023.2277264

Textile and fashion brands convey core values through marketing, and in slow-fashion heritage brands this often includes skilled craftsmanship, authenticity, sustainability and provenance. As industry digitalisation continues, brands are employing im... Read More about Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability..

Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. (2023)
Book Chapter
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. [2025]. Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. In Kosmidou, E.R. and McMurtry, L.G. (eds.) Intangible cultural heritage and new methodological frameworks: media, performance and the public space. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 7. (Forthcoming)

This chapter discusses collaboration between industry and academia to support the intangible cultural heritage of Scottish tweed. Firstly, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Harris Tweed Hebrides and Robert Gordon University that sought to "exp... Read More about Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed..

The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review. (2023)
Journal Article
MESJAR, L., CROSS, K., JIANG, Y. and STEED, J. 2023. The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review. Sustainability [online], 15(4), article number 3761. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043761

Fashion industry emissions, resource use and waste are attracting increasing consumer and government attention, with broad agreement that a new approach is required along the supply chain. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, a move to digitalisation fac... Read More about The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review..

Shifting stories: provenance and production in Scotland's fashion and textile SMEs. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CROSS, K. 2021. Shifting stories: provenance and production in Scotland's fashion and textile SMEs. Presented at the 2021 Responsible fashion event (Responsible Fashion 2021): can fashion save the world? 14 October 2021, [virtual event].

Scottish textile jobs support the prosperity of many rural communities (Textiles Scotland 2016), for example the Harris Tweed hand-weavers in the Outer Hebrides. Scotland's traditional tweeds and tartans, cashmere and woollens continue to survive tod... Read More about Shifting stories: provenance and production in Scotland's fashion and textile SMEs..

Harris Tweed: a glocal case study. (2021)
Journal Article
CROSS, K., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2021. Harris Tweed: a global case study. Fashion, style and popular culture [online], 8(4), pages 475-494. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00102_1

Fast and effectively disposable fashion has seen clothing reduced to transient items, worn for a short period of time then discarded. This has pushed down prices, moving textile and clothing production to low-cost labour countries and decimating the... Read More about Harris Tweed: a glocal case study..