Full Description
Fashion ephemera—from catalogues and invitations to press releases—have long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. Fashion Remains redresses the balance, putting these objects centre stage and focusing on the wider creative practice of contemporary fashion designers, photographers, graphic designers, make-up artists, and many more. Fashion ephemera are considered not as disposable promotional devices, but as windows into hidden networks of collaboration and value creation in the fashion system.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Fashion Remains explores the unseen and privately circulated fashion ephemera produced by today's most prominent international fashion designers such as Margiela, Yamamoto, and Raf Simons. Showcasing a unique archive of materials, it focuses on Antwerp's avant-garde fashion scene and reveals the potential of these ephemeral objects to evoke and call into question material and immaterial knowledge about the fashion industry's actors, practices and ideologies.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - AUTHORIAL NETWORKS
Matters of Signatures: from Authenticity to Intimacy
Authorial Bodies and Stories
Authorizing Visible and Invisible Voices
Multiple Authors
Aesthetic and Disciplinary Dialogues
Keeping and Expanding Authorship
Blurring Fashion Authorities
Authorial Networks
CHAPTER 2 - PERFOMANCES OF TIME
One Ephemera, Multiple Events
Between Disappearance and Permanence
The Look Moment
Show(ing) Time
The Liveness of the Show
Show Mediatization
Allusive Fragments
Performances of Imagination
CHAPTER 3 - POETIC TRANSFORMATIONS
A Ménage à Trois
Haptic Fashion Images
Material Animations
The Sense of Fabric
Point of Touch
Paratexts and Touching Concepts
Poetics Transformations
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
