THE CRAFTS OF FASHION
SOURCES : VOLUME 1
B42-206
parution november 2023
langue english
designer deValence
format 190 x 250 mm
pages 232 p.
ISBN 9782494983069
thème fashion
Translations by Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke.
Published with the support of CHANEL and the 19M.
Also available in French
The Crafts of Fashion: Sources covers various issues relating to know-how in fashion design and raises the crucial question of sources. Fashion encompasses a vast array of professions and crafts, and as many singular histories; how can we think about this object of study when faced with the diversity of the practices that make it up? Plaiters, tailors, embroiderers, and other model makers, often anonymous, animate the worlds of fashion and their technical cultures, but how is this technical knowledge, which is also “knowledge of the body”, studied, preserved, and transmitted? This volume looks at the existing anthropological and historical traditions in this field, and examines current methodological innovations that enable us to understand this dynamic, little-explored area of research.
The contributions that make up this book were given in the form of lectures as part of the research seminar Chaire CHANEL et le19M des savoir-faire de la mode at the Institut français de la mode.
