Fashion in theory

Marco Pecorari is Associate Professor in Fashion Studies and Associate Dean for Liberal Arts and Research in the Department of Art and Design History and Theory, The New School Parsons Paris

• Introduction: Fashion in theory – Marco PecorariI Historicizing and translating1 Sensitive theory – Emanuele Coccia2 Fashion-Théorie: A theory of practice by Alexis Lavigne – Marlène Van de Casteele3 The making of Fashion Theory: A conversation with Valerie Steele and Peter McNeil4 Theorizing contemporary fashion and historical time: Caroline Evans in conversation with Marco Pecorari5 Anti-spectacular fashion: From Guy Debord’s to Karl Lagerfeld’s dialectics – Maxime BoidyII Subjectivity and positionality6 Notes on theorizing from the personal – Carol Tulloch7 Theatre of the self: Self-fashioning and self-theorization in the case of Leonor Fini – Andrea Kollnitz8 Men’s wear / woman’s work: The issue of positionality when researching and curating menswear – Marta Franceschini9 Holding space, creating changes – Erica de Greef and Sarah Cheang10 Unmaking Western epistemologies with Indigenous fashion – Sariah Park and Antoinette Alba11 ‘Their bodies, my body’: Posing the modern Singaporean female as a decolonial method – Angelene WongIII Practices and making12 What kind of activism is theorizing? – Otto Von Busch13 Donna Haraway’s threads: Textile metaphors for earthly survival – Morna Laing14 Theory as a toolbox: Unmaking fashion and creative industries: Angela McRobbie and Giulia Mensitieri in conversation with Marco Pecorari15 Fashion, capitalism and the difficulty of reparations – Serkan Delice16 Teaching theory for fashion designers in arts and design universities: Caroline Stevenson and Saul Marcadent in conversation with Marco Pecorari