Fashioning through materials: material culture, materiality and processes of materialization
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10R - 703055
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1386/csfb.5.1.3_2
- Title of journal
- Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty
- Article number
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- First page
- 3
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2040-4417
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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B - Design Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This article is the introduction to a special issue of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, a journal that has built a reputation for studies of fashion that emphasise critical perspectives. Fisher worked with co-author Sophie Woodward to bring together the articles in the special issue, which cover instances of the materialisation of fashion that range across a variety of types of fashion item (shoes, dresses, wool fabric, hair) and include experiential, theoretical and experimental approaches to the subject. The introduction, ‘Fashioning Through Materials’ was jointly authored through the process of editing the special issue articles with their authors, in dialogue with the journal editors and in response to anonymous peer reviewers’ comments. The key concepts underpinning the article, for instance the discussion of fashion in terms of ‘being in fashion’ and ‘fashioning’, were derived jointly by Fisher and Woodward, the latter term pointing to Fisher’s particular interest in the material engagement involved in fashion – extended in this case to apparently non-material dimensions of fashion, played out through networks of relations between people and artefacts.
Fisher contributed particularly to the reading of Ingold and Miller’s important contribution to discussions of materiality, being as it is close to the strong focus on materials that has characterised his work since 2004. Followed through into a discussion of the apparently immaterial materialisation of fashion on screens, which builds on Fisher’s work published as:
Fisher, T. (2013) ‘The death and life of plastic surfaces: mobile phones’, in Jennifer Gabrys, Gay Hawkins and Mike Michael (eds) Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, London: Routledge pp107-121.
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Maffei, N. and Tom Fisher (2013), ‘Historicizing Shininess in Design: Finding Meaning in an Unstable Phenomenon’, Journal of Design History, 26, 3: 231-240, DOI:10.1093/jdh/ept025, available at http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/ept025?ijkey=cO64oIBTz4lJvKX&keytype=ref
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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