Fashion Projects: 15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue anthologizes the New York–based journal Fashion Projects. The book is an index of a particular time within the fashion studies landscape and the attendant fields of fashion writing, fashion curation, and critical fashion practice during which the field witnessed a meteoric rise.
The long-running non-profit journal Fashion Projects was described by The Paris Review as “a journal devoted to critical discourse in fashion, ” Fashion Projects was founded in New York in 2005 as a zine. It gradually morphed into a larger journal straddling the academic and general interest worlds, with international distribution and an ardent readership. It served as a platform to highlight the importance of fashion within current critical discourses through longform interviews with a range of curators, critics, artists and designers. This book collects together the best articles from the journal, most issues of which are now unavailable.
From exploring the rise of digital fashion media with Penny Martin (the founding editor-in-chief of SHOWstudio) to the continued importance of connoisseurship with Harold Koda (former Curator in Chief of the Met’s Costume Institute), the anthology records the increasing centrality of fashion to contemporary critical discourse.
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Introduction
PART I: Curators and Conservators
Showmanship and History: An Interview with Harold Koda Francesca Granata Exploring Fashion’s Openness: An Interview with Kaat Debo Alex Nora Esculapio Curation and Conservation: An Interview with Sarah Scaturro Mae Colburn Fashion in the Vast Museum: An Interview with Alexandra Palmer Ingrid Mida Woman of Steele: An Interview with Valerie Steele Lisa Santandrea Experiments in Fashion Curation: An Interview with Judith Clark Sarah Scaturro Restless Curating: An Interview with Maria Luisa Frisa Marco Pecorari London, After a Fashion Curator: An Interview with Alistair O’Neill Alexis Romano Elsewhere: Between Art Collaborative and House of Wonder Francesca Granata Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom: An Interview with Jonathan M. Square Tzuni Lopez Montgomery
PART II: Critics and Writers
Fashion Criticism: A Critical View: An Interview with Robin Givhan Michelle Labrague This Is Not a Fashion Critic: An Interview with Guy Trebay Jay Ruttenberg Women’s Work: An Interview with Judith Thurman Francesca Granata On Fashion Futures: An Interview with Suzy Menkes Lucy Collins Fashion Criticism as Political Critique: An Interview with Lynn Yaeger Sarah Scaturro The Critic as Artist: An Interview with Mariuccia Casadio Marco Pecorari Transdisciplinary Practices: An Interview with Stefano Tonchi Francesca Granata Show Me Your Reality and I’ll Show You Mine: An Interview with Penny Martin Patty Chang Bill Cunningham: Multimedia Man Jay Ruttenberg
PART III: Artists and Designers
Reflections on Meta-Design: An Interview with Mary Ping Cynthia Leung Fashion as Expanded Practice: An Interview with Shelley Fox Francesca Granata Space Meditations: An Interview with Gabi Schillig Sarah Scaturro Fashioning Vulnerabilities: An Interview with Pascale Gatzen Mae Colburn Envisioning a Thriving Local Textile Economy: An Interview with Rebecca Burgess Mae Colburn Boundless Practice: An Interview with Susan Cianciolo Sonya Mooney Elegant Subversions: An Interview with Cat Chow Francesca Granata Imprints of the Body: An Interview with Tanya Marcuse Tamsen Young The Red Shoe Delivery Service: From the Armory to the Land of Oz Francesca Granata Fuzzy Fashion: Studio 5050 Sarah Scaturro A Matter of Style: Papa Wemba Patty Chang Serpica Naro: The Great Fashion Swindle Francesca Granata Made in Italy – An Expanded View: An Interview with Michelle Ngonmo Francesca Granata
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Francesca Granata is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, New York, USA. Her research centres on modern and contemporary visual and material culture with a particular focus on fashion history and theory, gender and performance studies.
