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Thoughtless acts (IDEO)
Small photo book, see sample pictures below. Topic: A visual documentation of actions we do not think about but are nevertheless deeply ingrained in our behaviours, for instance grabbing something for...
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Re-Magazine (Jop van Bennekom)
Four magazines about one (fictional) person each based on several people. Balance between text (fake interviews, essays) and photos (documentary style fashion-inspired shoots). Topic: Each magazine has...
View ArticleExactitudes (Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek)
Topic: How do we dress as an individual as well as an collective in a given cultural sphere? What external and voluntary forces can we identify in relation to the location, time, occasion, tradition,...
View ArticleTokyo Style (Kyoichi Tsuzuki)
Topic: This series of documentary photography (can also be documentary film) reveals the cluttered yet tactically personalised interior space of the residents of Tokyo. It reflects the fact that their...
View ArticleSubculture: The Meaning of Style (Dick Hebdige)
Topic: How is street fashion shaped by the mobs? Analysing extreme subcultural forms of fashion, paying a close look at music-related styles such as mods, punks and rockers, this book examines how...
View ArticleFashion as Communication (Malcolm Barnard)
Topic: Fashion can be considered as a form of communication, but what does it tell us? And how? This book is an academic attempt to address fashion as a form of social communication tool. Main thesis:...
View ArticleFashion, Culture and Identity (Fred Davis)
Topic: Fashion is a social object, but what does it reflect? And how? This work is an rigourous attempt to critically examine fashion with the wide ranging literature. Main thesis: What do our clothes...
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