Dissolving the Ego of Fashion

Agenda

October 30, 2020 – November 30, 2020

Erasmus Descartes Conference 2020

Conference

November 28, 2020 – November 29, 2020

Fashion Colloquium 2020: Call for Abstracts

Announcement

January 10, 2020 – January 12, 2020

Living-With and Dying-With

Thoughts on the Affective Matter of Food and Fashion

by Daniëlle Bruggeman & Hanka van der Voet

Danielle Bruggeman and Hanka van der Voet contributed to the new edition of the online journal APRIA with the essay 'Living-With and Dying-With: Thoughts on the Affective Matter of Food and Fashion'. In this essay, they highlight the urgency of moving beyond current processes of de-humanisation and de-animalisation. In doing so, they argue for the importance of engaging with food and fashion in their radically material forms, as active and affective—living—matter that we sensorially engage with. This is a way to move beyond the visual, which is so often privileged in the (symbolic) production of fashion.

October 14, 2020

Essay

Sensorial Nourishment

Embodiment and the Senses in Food and Fashion

by Daniëlle Bruggeman

While feeding our dressed bodies, we ‘fashion’—give meaning to—our nourished selves every day. We engage with food daily through embodied practices of eating, tasting and cooking. And we engage with fashion through everyday practices of dressing and wearing clothes. We buy aesthetically pleasing foods in the supermarket, and beautiful fashionable clothes in branded stores. We buy what looks nice, but do we know where the vegetable seeds or cotton were planted, and by whom?

October 9, 2020

An ongoing conversation

Fashion in times of the coronacrisis, and post-crisis

by Charlotte Verdegaal

Daniëlle Bruggeman and Hanka van der Voet started an ongoing conversation about fashion in times of the coronacrisis (and post-crisis). What is the impact of the coronacrisis on the fashion system? What is the relevance of fashion today? What is at stake? How could - or should - fashion play a role in re-imagining our post-crisis society? And how does this all relate to Dissolving the Ego of Fashion?

September 22, 2020

Essay

A human pace brings its own kind of joy

by Lindy Boerman

In my eyes fashion represents a duality of both misery and joy. This duality is something I have been struggling with for a long while. Due to the negative environmental impact and the humanitarian injustices, I only saw the miserable side of fashion. I couldn’t experience the joyfulness for quite some time now. But when I saw a floral printed skirt made by the Dutch designer label HACKED by_, I immediately fell in love, and it caught me by surprise.

September 14, 2020