Fashion Fictions maps the fertile boundary where experimental fashion practice meets research, technology, and other modes of cultural production — a survey of designers who treat the garment as speculative, material argument rather than commercial object.
About This Book
Published to accompany a major exhibition organised by Stephanie Rebick, Fashion Fictions charts a global shift in fashion practice towards research-based, materially driven work that refuses the conventions of the industry. Drawing its title from Julian Bleecker's influential 2009 essay Design Fiction — which locates the most transformative creative work in the space between fact and fiction — the book frames experimental fashion as a speculative discipline. For designers, students, and theorists interested in where fashion intersects with technology, material culture, and critical making, this is a rigorous document of a movement still defining itself.
Key Features
- 184 pages of exhibition documentation, critical essays, and project surveys spanning international experimental fashion practice
- Organised by Stephanie Rebick
- References Julian Bleecker's foundational essay Design Fiction (2009) as a conceptual framework
- Published by Information Office, 2009
What You'll Discover
- How research-based and materially driven practices are reshaping fashion's relationship to craft, science, and technology on a global scale
- The intellectual debt experimental fashion owes to design fiction — and how speculation functions as a legitimate methodology in garment-making
- Creative practices that directly challenge fashion's aesthetic, material, and technological conventions rather than working within them
- The productive tensions that arise when fashion is treated as a site of cultural production rather than a commercial discipline
About the Author
Stephanie Rebick is the organiser of the Fashion Fictions exhibition, which forms the basis of this publication. Her curatorial work focuses on experimental design practices at the intersection of fashion and broader cultural production.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 184
- Dimensions: 320 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781988860176
- Publisher: Information Office
- Publication Date: 2009
Perfect For: Fashion designers and theorists, design researchers, curators working at the intersection of fashion and technology, and students of material culture and speculative design practice.