Full Description
Taking the concept of 'seamlessness' as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and globalized production and consumption. Combining firsthand experience of making seamless garments with references from psychoanalysis, anthropology and cultural studies, Lee reveals the ways that a garment can reach to our deeply superficial sense of being, and how her seamless garments can represent the ambiguity of a modern subject in a perpetual process of becoming. Richly illustrated and firmly rooted in the actual work of creation, this daringly innovative book breaks new ground for fashion research.
Contents
Foreword
Claire Pajaczkowska
The Seaming
Chapter 1: The Skin Ego
Chapter 2: The Garment Ego
Chapter 3: Auratic Objects
Chapter 4: Here and Now
Chapter 5: Seaming Hands
Chapter 6: Seamless?
Chapter 7: The Toile Ego
The Seam(less)
References
Index
