The Sound of Fashion Thinking
| Author | Jonathan Faiers |
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| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9781915609700 |
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| Status | not yet published |
This text establishes Fashion Thinking as a new field of critical enquiry, utilizing the many ways fashion is made as a methodology with which to explore a range of contemporary cultural, political, economic, and social concerns. In the same way fabric can be fashioned into a coat—something produced from next to nothing—that same material can easily be unpicked and refashioned, even reworked into a completely new garment or object. Fashion Thinking is characterised by this potential, fluid state, approaching each new topic according to specific demands and desires, cutting its cloth and finding its voice accordingly—whether poetic, analytical, autobiographical, technical, or discursive. Taking the form of a guide to an imaginary fashion exhibition that ironically has no physical items on display, The Sound of Fashion Thinking inhabits the space of the museum solely through sound. Each "chapter" or "room" carries a series of reflections and discussions on different aspects of fashion including its production, reception, dissemination, and development, all inspired by the sonic exhibits encountered therein.
| 168 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English |
Sternberg Press
