World Food Books

VISCOSE Issue 2
Clothes

2021, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 21.5 × 17 cm
Published by Viscose / Copenhagen

$42.00 - Out of stock

Viscose is a new journal for fashion criticism. Launched between Copenhagen and New York in 2021, the periodical publishes critical writing and projects by a wide range of authors from the worlds of art, fashion, literature, and academia. Through specially edited thematic issues, Viscose gives space to projects that challenge and expand the possibilities of research, practice, and critique of fashion.

Issue 2 of Viscose inverts issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of style to instead explore the most material of fashion’s building blocks: Clothes.

Clothes are literally everywhere and cite complicated systems of production, distribution, and exchange on their paths around the world. Still, they never fully reveal their journey or destination, and may often signify little else than their own commodity status, the total genericness of the fashion product. Bringing together a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, the issue sets out to explore clothes as a signifier at once empty and over-burdened: as expressions of desires, people and places, as palimpsests for capitalist production cycles and histories of dressed bodies, and even, as nondescript material debris. While not necessarily foregoing an analysis of the fashion system, we hope to develop a form of fashion criticism that begins – and perhaps ends – with the single garment, that takes the everyday use of clothing objects as an intellectual starting point. What knowledge can we gather from the studying of fashion objects, be they material or immaterial? What is the difference between clothes and fashion? And to which extent is even "fashion" ever successfully signified by things?

Featuring Nina Beier, Anna-Sophie Berger, Paige K. Bradley, Laura Brown, Pia Camil, Dal Chodha, Victoria Colmegna, Exatitudes (Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek), Anna Franceschini, Laura Gardner, Rhonda Lieberman, Eric N. Mack, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Christian Oldham, Kembra Pfahler, Carl Gustaf Von Platen, Mattia Ruffalo, Tenant of Culture, Torbjørn Rødland, Barbara Sanchez-Kane, Else Skålvoll Thorenfeldt, Jeppe Ugelvig, Femke de Vries, Issy Wood, Bruno Zhu.

File under: Torbjørn Rødland Nina Beier Anna-Sophie Berger Issy Wood Pia Camil Victoria Colmegna Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek Anna Franceschini Eric N. Mack Kembra Pfahler Carl Gustaf von Platen Tenant of Culture Bárbara Sánchez-Kane Bruno Zhu Femke de Vries Laura Gardner Paige K. Bradley Dal Chodha Rhonda Lieberman Kristian Vistrup Madsen Mattia Ruffalo Jeppe Ugelvig Viscose / Copenhagen Fashion Textiles Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Photography

CROWD Edition 7
February 1985 "The Parade Issue"

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 62 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by CROWD / Melbourne

$35.00 - Out of stock