From Concept to Creation: The Role of Creating Miniature Fashion Design Prototypes in Accelerating the Production Process

James Tetteh Ademtsu; Justine Abaguri Adjuri; Aidam Kokui Yayra

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From Concept to Creation: The Role of Creating Miniature Fashion Design Prototypes in Accelerating the Production Process

James Tetteh Ademtsu^*, Justine Abaguri Adjuri, Aidam Kokui Yayra

Published in American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 10, Issue 2)

Received: 18 April 2025 Accepted: 3 May 2025 Published: 16 June 2025

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The study explores miniature dress forms for prototyping fashion design in Ghana to determine their benefits for efficiency together with sustainability and creative processes. This study based its methodology on interviews with 65 professionals and studio observations of 8 fashion studios and designer experiments involving 25 participants to identify key benefits of operating with miniature prototypes. Using miniature dress forms enables fashion professionals to cut projectile development duration by 57.1% and decrease resource consumption by 68.4% through enhanced design exploration capabilities, reducing prototyping expenses by 63.1%. The educational value of miniature dress forms produces improved pattern quality by 19.4% and enables students to learn skills at a 21.5% faster rate. The miniaturized dress forms remain beneficial for the Ghanaian textile sector because they help protect cultural heritage while enabling developers to merge traditional methods with modern design approaches. Research shows that miniature prototyping helps the developing fashion sector of Ghana by solving resource issues and teaching green manufacturing techniques as it merges traditional garment construction methods with current conceptual methods. The research adds to contemporary knowledge about alternative prototyping practices within fashion education because these methods advance sustainable creative practices in developing economies.

Published in	American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.16
Page(s)	58-66
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Miniature Dress Forms, Sustainable Fashion, Design Prototyping, Ghanaian Textiles, Fashion Education

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Ademtsu, J. T., Adjuri, J. A., Yayra, A. K. (2025). From Concept to Creation: The Role of Creating Miniature Fashion Design Prototypes in Accelerating the Production Process. American Journal of Art and Design, 10(2), 58-66. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.16

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Ademtsu JT, Adjuri JA, Yayra AK. From Concept to Creation: The Role of Creating Miniature Fashion Design Prototypes in Accelerating the Production Process. Am J Art Des. 2025;10(2):58-66. doi: 10.11648/j.ajad.20251002.16

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James Tetteh Ademtsu

Department of Fashion Design and Technology, Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

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Justine Abaguri Adjuri

Department of Fashion Design and Textile Technology, Faculty of Creative Art Technology, Tamale Technical University, Tamale, Ghana

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Aidam Kokui Yayra

Department of Home Economics, Gbewaa College of Education, Pusiga, Ghana

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