Full Description
If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up?
An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas received.
Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative and original project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely - in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These fascinating imaginings are fleshed out and brought to life by each chapter.
A source of inspiration for designers, researchers, activists and students alike, Fashion Fictions encourages its readers to reimagine the world around them and reveals what people are really yearning for in their experience of fashion.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Data Access Statement
World index
1 The Place Between
How change looks
Imagining otherwise
Box 1.1: Further reading
Embracing the impossible
2 Speculating sideways
Envisioning parallel worlds
Activity 2.1: Stage 1 - writing a world
Activity 2.2: Stage 2 - making a prototype
Bringing the worlds to life
Activity 2.3: Stage 3 - creating an enactment
Activity 2.4: Capturing wonder
Exploring the book
3 Stories and language
Fashion stories
Telling stories
Wording stories
Activity 3.1: Take action - garment-description game
Performing stories
Stories and language: ideas for the real world
4 Nature and spirituality
Fashion and nature
Post-nature communities
Meeting the mushrooms
Activity 4.1: Take action - meet the mushrooms
Fashion and spirituality
Nature and spirituality: ideas for the real world
5 Place and togetherness
Locations and localism
Places for togetherness
Ritualizing fashion
Activity 5.1: Take action - ritual garment exchange
Trends and connection
Activity 5.2: Take action - resourceful styling
Place and togetherness: ideas for the real world
6 Organization and adaptation
Organizing fashion
Organizing otherwise
Restriction and rebellion
Limits, resourcefulness and adaptation
Organization and adaptation: ideas for the real world
7 Pulling the possibilities
Speculation, wonder and change
Box 7.1: Wonder gallery
Lingering experiences: possibility and stories
Making change: prefiguration
Activity 7.2: Playing in prefigurative mode
Looping back
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
