Fashion Remains: Rethinking Ephemera in the Archive - Hardcover

Marco Pecorari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350074764 ISBN 13: 9781350074767

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Synopsis

Fashion ephemera-from catalogues and invitations to press releases-have long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. This book 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.

About this title

About the Author

Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor and Program Director for the MA in Fashion Studies at The New School Parsons Paris, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350074764
• ISBN 13: 9781350074767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256