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Description
If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up?
An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas received.
Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative and original project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely – in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These fascinating imaginings are fleshed out and brought to life by each chapter.
A source of inspiration for designers, researchers, activists and students alike, Fashion Fictions encourages its readers to reimagine the world around them and reveals what people are really yearning for in their experience of fashion.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
Table of Contents
1. The Place Between
How Change Looks
Imagining Otherwise
Speculating Sideways
Embracing the Impossible
Connecting with the Real World
Finding the Place Between
Take Action: Writing and Prototyping
2. Stories and Language
Fashion Stories
Telling Stories
Wording Stories
Performing Stories
Ideas for the Real World: Stories and Language
Take Action: Garment-description game
3. Nature and Spirituality
Fashion and Nature
Post-nature Communities
Meeting the Mushrooms
Fashion and Spirituality
Ideas for the Real World: Nature and Spirituality
Take Action: Meet the Mushrooms
4. Place and Togetherness
Locations and Localism
Fashion Spaces
Celebrations and Rituals
Trends and Non-trends
Ideas for the Real World: Place and Togetherness
Take Action: Ritual Clothing Exchange
5. Organisation and Adaptation
Organising Fashion
Questioning State and Society
Restriction
Rebellion and Adaptation
Ideas for the Real World: Organisation and Adaptation
Take Action: Resourceful Styling
6. Pulling the Probabilities
Collecting Ideas for the Real World
Theories of Change
Embracing Uncertainty
Pulling the Probabilities
Take Action: Capturing Wonder
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 04 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350435636 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 110 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 10 x 7 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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