Fashion and Feeling

Roberto Filippello is a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Teaching Fellow in Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.Ilya Parkins is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.

• ​1.Introduction.- Feeling Wardrobe Histories.- 2. “Closet Feelings”.- 3. “Militarized Comfort: How to Feel Naked While Wearing Clothes”.-4. “Costume Design and Emotional Communication in 1940s British Cinema”.- 5. “Can Fashion Feel?”.- Reparative Fashion.- 6. “Designing Clothes For and From Love: Disability Justice and Fashion Hacking”.- 7. “Beading is Medicine: Beading as a Therapeutic and Decolonial Practice” .- 8. “All that Cloth Can Carry (on a Queer Body)”.- 9. “Looking Like a Woman, Feeling Like a Woman, Sensing the Self: Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Dress Therapy”.- Stasis and Transformation in Fashion.- 10. “Dirty Pretty Things: Stains, Ambivalence and the Traces of Feeling”.- 11. “Making Peace Sensational: Designs for the Nobel Prizes”.- 12. “Glamour Magick, Affective Witchcraft, and Occult Fashion-abilities”.- 13. “Fashion Studies at a Turning Point”.- Affective Embodiment in Media.- 14. “Melancholy Fashion inAotearoa New Zealand”.- 15. “On Boredom and Contemporary Fashion Photography”.- 16. “Hair Dressing: Fetish, School Uniforms and Shōjo in ‘Cocoon Entwined’”.- 17. “What’s Getting Us Through: Grazia UK as Affective Intimate Public During the Coronavirus Pandemic”.- 18. Afterword.

“This edited volume explores the intersection of fashion and the feeling body. ... The volume is organized thematically across eighteen chapters in four sections. ... this volume ultimately registers a set of political and affective concerns that can orient and guide strands of contemporary fashion scholarship, research, and practice, and at the same time bring additional complexity and nuance to understanding the significance of the body in fashion.” (Todd Robinson, Fashion Theory, February 1, 2024)“Fashion and Feeling crests a wave of affect-related fashion studies which has gathered with increasing urgency in recent years; in doing so it serves admirably as both theoretical primer and instructive exhibition of the field’s potential avenues of application. … this collection succeeds in inspiring more than it forecloses.” (Alec Holt, Journal of Design History, December 4, 2023)