Overview

On theory and method in the changing field of fashion studies. At a point when fashion studies are expanding and the fashion industry is at a crucial point of change, Fashion Knowledge makes a valuable contribution to the field. The book explores current issues in fashion research, with a focus on the relationship between theory and practice. This edited collection assembles academic essays and intellectual activism next to visual essays and artistic interventions, proposing a different concept for fashion research that eschews the traditional logic of academic fashion studies. It features acclaimed designers, artists, curators, and theorists whose work investigates the multi-faceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion. Contributors look at new forms of fashion knowledge that are forming along with shifting practices, shedding light on the entanglement of fashion and politics in both contemporary and historical moments.

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Author:   Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) ,  Monica Titton (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781789387681

ISBN 10:   178938768
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   04 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Fashion Knowledge between Practice and Theory 1           Elke Gaugele and Monica Titton    PART I: FASHION KNOWLEDGE 13 1. The Transformative Power of Practice-Based Fashion Research 15            José Teunissen  2. Theory as Practice: Notes on the Sociology of a Practice-Based Fashion Theory 27            Monica Titton  3. Ornamental Politics and Assembled Textures of Artistic Research: The Project kotomisi: un-inform by           knowbotiq 36            Elke Bippus  4. Fashion Ontology: Researching the Possibilities for Knowing through an Expanded Fashion Practice 53            Lara Torres  5. DISCOURSE, Cruise 2020 70            Maria Ziegelböck    PART II: REFLECTIONS ON FASHION AS PRACTICE 79  6. Notes on Fashion Practice as Research: Episodes of Conversation Pieces 81            Ruby Hoette  7. Work with the Existing: Be Realistic 91            NCCFN  8. The Empress’s New Clothes, or How One Makes Fashion (or Doesn’t) 96            Wally Salner (translated by Travis Lehtonen)  9. Skin Host and Heavenly Visitor 106            Priska Morger (Prof. PriskAMORger)    PART III: SITES OF FASHION AND POLITICS 111  10. T-shirt Matters 113            Carol Tulloch  11. DEAD WHITE MEN’S CLOTHES 136            Jojo Gronostay with an introduction by Elke Gaugele  12. Fashion Politics: Dressing Segregation and Distinction 143            Andreas Spiegl  13. Early- Modern Fashion Knowledge and the Western Politics of Science 150            Elke Gaugele    Notes on Contributors 163 

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'Fashion Knowledge offers a variety of thought-provoking methods and practices for critical interrogations. Two of the high points of the volume address decolonization: the first thinking through historical research and the second with a distinctly contemporary bend. [...] Gaugele, Titton and their contributors demonstrate that research methods are helpful to challenge existing ways of knowing and can be used to questioning historic structures and developing more equitable practices. [...] This is a thoughtful collection and critical intervention into research methods that is much needed. Gaugele and Titton should be lauded for pulling together these diverse voices, perspectives and efforts at decolonizing and democratizing fashion research. This volume is a welcomed step forward in the growing area of fashion studies and certainly has the potential to shift contemporary critical practices.' -- Myles Ethan Lascity, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture

Author Information

Monica Titton is a sociologist, fashion theorist and senior scientist at the fashion design department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria). Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of fashion, styles and contextual design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria).

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