Although the book is now published, the project survey itself is still online, which we think would make an awesome classroom activity!
Edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, Women in Clothes captures the voices and stories of 600 contributors from across the world.
Through interviews, conversations, surveys, diagrams and drawings, and with original contributions from a wide range of people, including established artists and writers like Miranda July, Molly Ringwald, Eileen Myles, Mona Kowalska, Rachel Kushner, Roxane Gay and Sarah Nicole Prickett, Women in Clothes will explore the multiplicity of motives that inform how women present themselves, and what style means (Women in Clothes)
The Editors of the book sat down with Jian Ghomeshi for an interview on the CBC, click here to check it out. The spirit of the book, according to Shapton, comes down to connections with strangers (Leanne Shapton, on CBC Radio).
Yes, yes, we know it’s not even August yet, but September is just around the corner, and, in any case, maybe you’re looking for some summer reading?
With this in mind, we’ve added more resources to our reading list, including a free ebook on sustainable fashion from Aalto University (thanks to Timo Rissanen for sharing the link on his site) and a link to the juicy reading list from followthethings.com:
Sustainable Fashion: New approaches, edited by Kirsi Niinimäki
As always, please note that our reading list is in no way exhaustive; if you’re on the hunt for something specific, a particular article, author or topic, just drop us a note on Twitter or Facebook and we’ll see if we can help.
Friends, two new tracts from the Current State of Fashion are out:
Tractatus Fashionablo-Politicus: The Political Philosophy of The Current State of FashionandThe Mark of Cain: The Aesthetic Superiority of the Fashionable.
In the Current State of Fashion, Otto von Busch asks,
“What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Something more sinister, more controlling, more elitist; a state of exclusion and violence.
“A state with no dictator, but with a population all too eager to follow every command and demarcation. A population that happily embrace the superiority consumerism evokes and turn the terror to each other through acts of judgments, micro-aggression, micro-violence, bullying and passionate micro-fascism. Fashion is a totalitarian state hidden under the consumer paradigm of ‘free choice’, a mythical superpower with a political mannerism in the footsteps of what political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls ‘Inverted Totalitarianism’.
“This is the Current State of Fashion.”(Source: The Current State of Fashion)
Both tracts are available for free download, and also available for purchase through Amazon.
Friends, Nadira will be presenting some of our most recent research at the Fashion in Fiction 2014 conference at City University of Hong Kong on Friday, June 13th. Our research will be presented under Panel 2.5: Sustainable Fashion and Ethical Fashion Brands in Practice.
The theme of the conference is ‘Style Stories and Transglobal Narratives’ and the agenda is packed with a great line-up of presenters, including Efrat Tseëlon.
Take a look at the schedule and let us know what you’re interested in learning more on – we’ll see if we can gather some data for you.
The conference runs from 12-14 of June, with an event on the 15th.
An event to launch the book is being held tomorrow in London, with a panel discussion featuring a host of special guests: fashion designer Katharine Hamnett, Susie Orbach, (Psychotherapist, activist, author of ‘Fat Is A Feminist Issue’ and ‘Bodies’. Founder of Anybody), Dunja Knezevic (President of The Models Union), Leah Borromeo (Journalist and Director of ‘Dirty White Gold’), and Nadia Idle (Love Fashion, Hate Sweatshops – War on Want)…click here for all the details, and here to join the event – held tomorrow (Thursday, February 13th) from 7:00pm until 10:30pm at 16-18 Heneage Street, London, UK.
At the event, Dirty White Gold will be screening a 10 minute teaser on their upcoming film.
Google has adjusted their image search tools with a new “Usage Rights” filtering option. This means users can more easily search for images for both use and reuse, under such licenses as the Creative Commons (CC).
All SA content is fully CC licensed, and while finding CC licensed images before Google made this small change was manageable, I have already noticed a significant drop in time spent looking for that perfect CC licensed photo for reuse in projects.
This is such great news for educators and creators looking to remix content!
