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The exercises are gathered under the following themes: Imagining and Dreaming; Going Outside; Using the Body; Working Together; Reading and Writing; Making, Finding, Tracing; Re-viewing Images; Digging Deep; and Sourcing and Re-sourcing. Radical Fashion Exercises assembles methods for learning and practicing fashion in meaningful, radical and responsible ways. 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From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of writing fashion in and outside of fashion industries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe, as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing-- which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice-- are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. 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The material conditions of fashion writing--of being for fashion--generates a unique set of poetics and syntax. Fashion writing, or written fashion, as Roland Barthes asserts, is a form of signification that is simultaneously real and imaginary, connected to the real garment that it signifies, but largely unencumbered by its materiality. Given the constraints of economic, cultural, and political factors on fashion writing, it is perhaps more interesting to ask, what is fashion writing really encumbered by, and what would it mean to unencumber it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince Baudelaire, art critics have turned to fashion as source material for their practice, casting fashion in the role of art's capitalist conspirator, temporal truth-sayer, or feminine alter-ego. 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This issue aims to explore writing as a tool for shaping fashion and broaden its perspectives by presenting a survey of experimental, fictocritical, and poetic approaches to writing fashion. 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Drawing on interviews and reproductions, this book puts forward fashion’s history and active practice of experimental, performative and counter-cultural publishing, making the case that these projects - despite restrictions of scale, funding and geography - can critique, experiment with, and altogether reimagine the fashion system.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51603550830865,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51603551060241,"sku":"NGR9781350303218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350303216.jpg?v=1763125142"},{"product_id":"ocd-rumination-book-laura-gardner-9798313296081","title":"OCD Rumination","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53660643852561,"sku":"NIN9798313296081","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798313296081.jpg?v=1781435315"},{"product_id":"complex-ptsd-book-laura-gardner-9798339876564","title":"Complex PTSD","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53661262512401,"sku":"NIN9798339876564","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798339876564.jpg?v=1781437999"},{"product_id":"betrayal-trauma-book-laura-gardner-9798341473522","title":"Betrayal Trauma","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53661274800401,"sku":"NIN9798341473522","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798341473522.jpg?v=1781438053"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-laura-gardner.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}