Radical Fashion Exercises

• Forthcoming: expected May 2023. You can pre-order this book in our webshop. Once the book is ready, we will dispatch your order.

Editors: Laura Gardner, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran 

Contributors: Laura & Deanna Fanning, Kate Fletcher, Nakako Hayashi, Elisa van Joolen, Maria Kley, Martine Rose, Clemens Thornquist, Otto von Busch, and many many others

Design: Line Arngaard  

May 2023, Valiz | pb | c. 240 pp. | 22 x 15 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-93246-19-5

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and Laura Gardner are fashion researchers, lecturers and writers. Daphne holds a PhD from Bunka Gakuen University in Tokyo; Laura from RMIT University in Melbourne. They are both lecturers in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Over one hundred tried, tested, and speculative exercises that expand the way we look at fashion, how we are part of its system, and how we can practice fashion otherwise.

Radical Fashion Exercises contains a copious collection of bottom-up activities, prompts, and workshops designed by contributors (from all around the globe), who explore fashion in an expanded field. Designers, curators, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, DIY home sewers, students, and other creatives responded to the book’s open call with contributions that challenge how to practice fashion and reflect on its systems, politics and economics. The exercises collected in this book embrace interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and aesthetics and widen fashion’s horizons as a medium for expression, embodiment and sociality.

Radical Fashion Exercises assembles methods for learning and practicing fashion in meaningful, radical and responsible ways. The book is an inspiring tool for design students, designers, writers, and practitioners of diverse disciplines to challenge fashion as a commodity and polluting structure in these times of uncertainty and upheaval.

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