Envisioning Fashion’s Invisible Woman
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26796250
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Discovery Museum (TWAM) Newcastle upon Tyne and Futurescan 4 Conference
- Brief description of type
- Exploring issues of age through fashion illustration
- Open access status
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- Month
- January
- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This practice-based research uses fashion drawing to explore diversity and inclusivity within the fashion community.
Envisioning Fashion’s Invisible Woman involved a series of drawing-based projects designed by Kirkbride and her septuagenarian muse to inform understanding of the older woman’s relationship with fashion. It contributes to the ongoing debate around the older woman and her (in)visibility within society and popular culture.
This project examines the relationship between age and fashion through the medium of Fashion illustration, so raising the visibility of the older woman in fashion. The language of drawing is used as a way of knowing to foster understanding of the physical interplay between the older woman and her clothes.
The annotated portfolio documents verbal and visual discussions on how the muse’s perception of her place in the fashion community impacts on her identity, personhood and wellbeing. It demonstrates/underlines the evolving collaborative working relationship between the artist and muse during the research process, and the response of fashion audiences to the developing fashion drawings and insights revealed.
Although this research remains rooted in the field of Fashion, the paucity of specific research within this field necessitated a broader approach. Therefore, Kirkbride also drew upon fashion industry expertise, market intelligence data, and insights from the fields of material culture, socio-cultural gerontology, philosophy and communication.
Dissemination includes:
‘Envisioning Fashion’s Invisible Woman’, research presentation at the
FTC Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice Conference, (2019).
‘Envisioning Fashion’s Invisible Woman’ poster presented at ‘Ageing in
an Unequal World’, British Society of Gerontology’s 47th Annual
conference, (2018).
Drawings and a poster exhibited in the ‘Call for Makers no. 1: Honesty
and Purpose’ exhibition at Northumbria University (2017).
Drawings where exhibited in the ‘Re-Fashion’ exhibition, Discovery
Museum, TWAM (2016).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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