Name: Viscose Journal Issue 2 Clothes
SKU: 9788797480243
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ISBN: 9780993542312

Viscose Journal Issue 2 Clothes

TIssue 2 inverts issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of style to instead explore the most material of fashion’s building blocks: clothes.

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Viscose Journal Issue 2 Clothes

Issue 2 inverts issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of style to instead explore the most material of fashion’s building blocks: clothes. Clothes are literally everywhere and cite complicated systems of production, distribution, and exchange on their paths around the world. Still, they never fully reveal their journey or destination, and may often signify little else than their own commodity status, the total genericness of the fashion product.Bringing together a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, the issue sets out to explore clothes as a signifier at once empty and over-burdened: as expressions of desires, people and places, as palimpsests for capitalist production cycles and histories of dressed bodies, and even, as nondescript material debris. While not necessarily foregoing an analysis of the fashion system, we hope to develop a form of fashion criticism that begins – and perhaps ends – with the single garment, that takes the everyday use of clothing objects as an intellectual starting point.

What knowledge can we gather from the study of fashion objects, be they material or immaterial? What is the difference between clothes and fashion? And to what extent is even “fashion” ever successfully signified by things?

Viscose Journal

Viscose is a journal for fashion criticism. Launched between Copenhagen and New York in 2021, the irregular periodical publishes critical writing and research projects by a wide range of authors from the worlds of art, fashion, literature, and academia. Though specially edited thematic issues conceived in partnership with institutions and museums, Viscose gives space to projects that challenge and expand the possibilities of research, practice, and critique of fashion.

Viscose is 100% ad-free, and its past issues have been supported by the Nordic Culture Fund, the Danish Arts Foundation, S.C. Van Fonder, and Design Trust Hong Kong. It is proudly co-published by the International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, Norway.

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