| INTRODUCTION |
| Discipline Fashion is a form of communication but not an innocent one. Clearly, fashion is never culturally nor politically neutral. Rather, it is loaded with meaning, signification, allusion, and citation. Topical Questions - What does fashion report to us? - What do fashion designers and their products signify? - How do fashion products shift to the status of icons of a certain time? Communicator in a Global Network In today's multi-coded societies, fashion inhibits as well as facilitates communication between social groups either highly fragmented or not. Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, and visual images play a vital role in creating a global network wherein also fashion plays its role of communicator. World of Communication and Information Fashion designers are at the core of the world of communication and information. - How does fashion communicate? - What is the role of the fashion magazine? - What is the role of the world of the catwalks? - How does fashion deal with a multitude of layers of information? - How could concepts such as interconnectivity, interactivity, and performativity create novel trajectories in fashion theory? Novel Vistas Fashion Designers portray a clear-cut capacity to open up novel vistas of communication, design, and theoretical discourse. |
