Published in 2024
200 pages
Elke Gaugele is Cultural Anthropologist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is project director of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, was a research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded a Lise Meitner-Habilitationsstipendium (2005–06) and a Maria Goeppert Mayer chair (2004). Publications include: Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (2019), coed. with Monica Titton; Critical Studies: Kultur- und Sozialtheorie im Kunstfeld (2016), coed. with Jens Kastner.
What is this book about?
On theory and method in the changing field of fashion studies. At a point when fashion studies are expanding and the fashion industry is at a crucial point of change, Fashion Knowledge makes a valuable contribution to the field. The book explores current issues in fashion research, with a focus on the relationship between theory and practice. This edited collection assembles academic essays and intellectual activism next to visual essays and artistic interventions, proposing a different concept for fashion research that eschews the traditional logic of academic fashion studies. It features acclaimed designers, artists, curators, and theorists whose work investigates the multi-faceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion. Contributors look at new forms of fashion knowledge that are forming along with shifting practices, shedding light on the entanglement of fashion and politics in both contemporary and historical moments.
