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Jonathan Faiers

The Sound of Fashion Thinking

Jonathan Faiers

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English
Sternberg Press
04 November 2025
Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style; Textile artworks; Fashion & textiles: design
Sonic responses to garments and fabrics that explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.

Sonic responses to garments and fabrics that explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.

This text by Jonathan Faiers establishes Fashion Thinking as a new field of critical inquiry, utilizing the many ways fashion is produced as a methodology with which to explore a range of contemporary cultural, political, economic, and social concerns. Taking its cue from earlier etymological definitions of fashion, understood as making, or bringing into existence, Fashion Thinking is inspired by the very act of fashioning. In the same way fabric can be fashioned into a coat-something produced from next to nothing-that same material can easily be unpicked and refashioned, even reworked into a completely new garment or object. Fashion Thinking is characterized by this potential, fluid state, approaching each new topic according to specific demands and desires, cutting its cloth and finding its voice accordingly-whether poetic, analytical, autobiographical, technical, or discursive.

Like fashion itself, Fashion Thinking is social, ludic, anticipatory, transformative, reciprocal, and aims beyond interdisciplinarity to a state of indisciplinarity. Such a term implies the state of being among disciplines but also being outside of or oblivious to them-indeed, unwilling to be ""disciplined"" per se, preferring instead the often turbulent, unruly, and invariably seductive margins where fields of activity overlap.

Taking the form of a guide to an imaginary fashion exhibition that ironically displays no clothing, The Sound of Fashion Thinking inhabits the space of the museum solely through sound. Each ""chapter"" or ""room"" is constructed from a series of reflections and discussions on different aspects of fashion, including its production, reception, dissemination, and development, all inspired by the sonic experiences encountered therein.
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Imprint:   Sternberg Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   204g
ISBN:   9781915609700
ISBN 10:   1915609704
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jonathan Faiers is Professor of Fashion Thinking, University of Southampton, U.K., where his research examines the interface between popular culture, fashion and textiles. His publications include Dressing Dangerously- Dysfunctional Fashion in Film (2013), Fur- A Sensitive History (2020), and Tartan (2008), the conceptual framework for his role as consultant curator for the exhibition ""Tartan"" (2023) at V&A Dundee. Faiers co-curated ""The Lore of Loverboy"" (2024) at Somerset House, London, celebrating the career of fashion designer Charles Jeffrey. Training as a designer and a subsequent career in visual arts are fundamental to his interdisciplinary approach to teaching, writing, and curation.

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