Becoming Fashion-able
Author | : Otto von Busch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105132355525 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and do-it-yourself practice, where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able.