Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics

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Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) Monica Titton (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria)

Fashion Knowledge

Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics

Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Monica Titton (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria)

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Intellect Books
16 August 2022

Fashion design & theory; Fashion & society

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 new 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.

Edited by: Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Monica Titton (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789385182
ISBN 10: 1789385180
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 16 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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).

Reviews for Fashion Knowledge: Theories, Methods, Practices and Politics

'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