Digital Fashion: Theory, Practice, Implications - Hardcover

Michael R. Spicher; Sara Emilia Bernat And Doris Domoszlai-Lantner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350359610 ISBN 13: 9781350359611

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024

Synopsis

This collection of topical essays by academics and industry professionals brings a unique lens to the issues broached, questions raised, and solutions offered regarding the history and advancement of digital fashion.

While digital fashion’s roots can be traced back to the development of the Jacquard loom, its modern-day antecedents are found in video games and Instagram filters - allowing users to apply virtual makeup, accessories, and clothes to their posts.

With 12 essays and four specialist interviews, this collection begins with digital fashion's origins, its placement in the history of fashion, and its status as an aesthetic object. Part 2 focuses on the practice of making digital fashion, including NFTs, sneaker culture, cyborg vs skins and education. Part 3 provides a critical overview of digital fashion's potential to impact wider society, including questions of social equity, sustainability and African decoloniality and the future of the industry.

Interviewees:
Julie Zerbo, founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Fashion Law
Idiat Shiole (Hadeeart), Web3 startup founder and 3D designer
Jonathan M. Square, writer, historian, and curator of Afro-Diasporic fashion and visual culture
Matthew Drinkwater, Head of Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion

About this title

About the Author

Michael R. Spicher PhD is a public philosopher and creator of Aesthetics Research Lab. He writes and speaks about aesthetics in professional and academic contexts. He is a regular contributor to BeautyMatter, a resource for the beauty industry. Michael lectures at both Boston Architectural College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.

 

Sara Emilia Bernat PhD is a brand strategist and sociologist, based in Paris. She advises private and public organizations on strategic branding at Gemic, a global social science and innovation consultancy. In tandem with her industry practice, she writes regularly at the intersection of luxury, fashion, and sustainability for publications such as In Pursuit of Luxury, Luxury Daily, and Fast Co, amongst others.

 

Doris Domoszlai-Lantner is a New York-based fashion historian and archivist. She holds an M.A. in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA and is a regular author for various journals and publications, including The Psychology of Fashion, Vestoj, and Fashion Studies Journal, and has been cited and interviewed in major publications such as WWD, The Daily Beast, Marie Claire, and Glamour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1350359610
• ISBN 13: 9781350359611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288