Ellen Sampson

Worn (eBook, PDF)

Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021

In a culture preoccupied with newness and a fashion system largely predicated upon it, what is the significance of worn clothes and why do they have the power to affect us so deeply? How are relationships to clothing produced and maintained through the embodied practices of wearing, maintenance and repair? Through a focus upon a single garment, the shoe, this book calls on readers to reconsider the value of the marks of wear at a time when fast fashion reigns supreme and interest in damaged, or worn, garments quietly increases.

Originating in an experimental practice-based methodology which placed wearing at its center, this book presents the act of wearing as a tool for developing knowledge, of 'being in' or 'being with', rather than observing from the outside. Bringing together anthropological and psychoanalytic theory with practices of handmaking, wearing, and photography, this book asks what is the embodied experience of wearing and the affect of the worn?

Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, Worn is the first book to focus exclusively on the significance of imperfect garments as important aspects of our material world and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350087200
• Artikelnr.: 60468662

Autorenporträt

Ellen Sampson is an artist, curator and material culture researcher. She is Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Design at Northumbria University, UK, and co-founder of the Fashion Research Network.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Wearing Diary 1 Chapter 1: New Shoes: Objects of fantasy
Objects of desire Wearing Diary 2 Chapter 2: Wearing and being worn Wearing Diary 3 Chapter 3: The dressed body in motion Wearing Diary 4 Chapter 4: The Cleaved Garment: the maker
the wearer
and the 'me and not me' of fashion practice Wearing Diary 5 Chapter 5: The Empty Shoe: Imprint
memory
and the marks of experience Wearing Diary 6 Chapter 6: Encounters and affects: garments
and the memory nexus Wearing Diary 7 Chapter 7: Worn: Imprint
attachment
and the affective encounter Afterword References Notes Index