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The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory. 2024, 5, p. 172-179

Another Fashion Is Possible : Practice of Making Fashion as Experimenting, Enacting, and Crafting the New Social Worlds

Tatsuhana, Keiko, Onosoe

The ACDHT 2023 TOKYO Executive Committee

英語

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2024-03

Session VIII : Design for the Future

This article explores the potential of the practice of ‘making fashion’ and its social value through an autoethnography describing how and what the author, a former practitioner of ‘making fashion’, experienced the social worlds of fashion over a period of 30 years from the early 1990s. In addition to generating shared emotions, social connections, and diverse ties, the practice of ‘making fashion’ challenges dominant social structures and assumptions about knowledge and experiments with, enacts, and crafts the different ways of being in society. To emancipate fashion knowledge from dominant perspectives and fixed methodologies and to bring other realities of fashion to the foreground, I first critically examine the perspectives of consumption, designer myths, and objectifying and fragmenting ways of perceiving things that are at the root/premise of fashion knowledge. Subsequently, I suggest alternative perspectives, from consumption to ‘the practice of making’, from designer myths to ‘agency of making’, and from objectification and fragmentation to ‘the wholeness of life as an existential being’. This article focuses on the practice of ‘making fashion’, which has been hidden by the dominant concept of consumption, and on the people who are actors in making yet have been rendered invisible. Referring to my personal autoethnography, which depicts the complexities of agency in making, how the state of society and the practice of making continuously reflect and erode each other in everyday life and how individuals’ lived experiences are reflected in the practice of making fashion, I attempt to show how the practice of ‘making fashion’ is embedded in the social, what it produces and how it performs in society. Finally, I discuss the potential of the practice of ‘making fashion’ and its social value.

10.18910/95358

95358

Another Fashion Is Possible : Practice of Making Fashion as Experimenting, Enacting, and Crafting the New Social Worlds

Tatsuhana, Keiko, Onosoe

The ACDHT 2023 TOKYO Executive Committee

英語

2024-03

The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory

5

172

179

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/95358

10.18910/95358

https://doi.org/10.18910/95358