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Interrogating Fashion - Practice, Process and Presentation: New Paradigms in Fashion Design
Fashion and clothing are part of a universal experience, the textile and clothing industries occupying a powerful global position in both economic and socio-cultural terms. It is however under-researched and under-represented academically. The Interrogating Fashion research cluster took a comprehensive view of fashion in its broadest sense and established a much-needed forum for discussion of issues surrounding fashion in the 21st century. The cluster created synergies across a range of perspectives (design, manufacturing and marketing, cultural theory, artistic, technological, scientific. . . ) to interrogate and challenge the practices and processes of fashion, deliberately integrating the traditional divisions of production, consumption and representation. Three overarching themes were established for the cluster framework - digital fashion (from craft to mass customisation), the fashion paradox (the contradictions between fashion’s economic importance and inbuilt obsolescence) and fashion in context (presentation and audience engagement).
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© Interrogating Fashion cluster
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