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Suggested reading lists

Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: Design, fiction and  social dreaming. The MIT Press. 

Ahmed, T. (2023). Pluriversal fashions: Towards an anti-racist fashion design pedagogy [Doctoral thesis, The Open University]. Open

     Research Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/87006/  

 

Binotto, C., & Payne, A. (2017). The Poetics of Waste: Contemporary Fashion Practice in the Context of Wastefulness. Fashion       

    Practice:The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry, 9(1), 5-29. 

   https://doi.org/10.1080/17569370.2016.1226604  

 

Cheang, S., De Greef, E., & Takagi, Y. (2021). Rethinking fashion globalization. Bloomsbury Publishing. 

 

Cibis, R. (2017). The seam: From/Of construction to deconstruction [Research thesis, The University of Melbourne]. Minerva Access.

    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/192642  

 

Clark, H. (2008). SLOW + FASHION--an Oxymoron--or a Promise for the Future…?. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & 

    Culture,12(4), 427-446. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174108X346922  

 

Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Critical fashion practice: From westwood  to Van Beirendonck. Bloomsbury Academic. 

 

Kawamura, Y. (2014). Fashion-ology: An introduction to fashion studies (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 

 

Lynch, A., & Struss, M. (2007). Changing fashion: A critical introduction to  trend analysis and meaning. Berg Publishers. 

 

McNeil, P., & Miller, S. (2014). Fashion writing and criticism: History, theory, practice. Bloomsbury Academic. 

 

Spirina, M. (2021). Queer sensibility as an aesthetic of inclusion: How non- demographic designers are challenging fashion norms

    (Order no.28829878) [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. ProQuest Central. 

 

Von Busch, O., Larrimore, M., & Moon, C. (Eds.). (2012). Belief systems: A pamphlet discussing fashion and religion [Pamphlet]. The

    New School. https://findingaids.archives.newschool.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/10184  

 

Von Busch, O. (2020). The dharma of fashion: A buddhist approach to our life with clothes. Schiffer Publishing. 

 

Von Busch, O. (2022). Vistas of vitality: Metabolisms, circularity and fashion-abilities (2nd ed.). SelfPassage.  

 

Von Busch, O. (2022). “What is to be sustained?”: Perpetuating systemic  injustices through sustainable fashion. Sustainability:

    Science, Practice & Policy, 18(1), 400-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2069996  

Bigolin, R., Blomgren, E., Lidstrom, L., De Oliveira, S. M., & Thornquist, C. (2022). Material inventories and garment ontologies:

    Advancing upcycling methods in fashion practice. Sustainability, 14(5), 2906. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052906  

 

Bigolin, R. (2012). Undo fashion: Loose garment practice [Doctoral thesis, RMIT University]. Body and Space Research 

    Lab. https://www.bodyandspace.com/undo-fashion-loose-garment-practice-phd-dissertation-ricarda-bigolin-rmit  

 

Cibis, R. (2023). Wearing fashion images: reimagining fashion fmages through material and participatory fashion practices [Research

   thesis, RMIT University]. Esploro. https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Wearing-fashion-images-

   reimagining-fashion-fmages/9922299613101341  

 

Hoette, R. (2015, June). Unpicking the fashion system: Practice as  

   research workshop [Workshop]. Nordes 2015: Design ecologies, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.

  https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.050  

 

Øien, I. F. (2021). Transactional aesthetics— And so can you. Oslo National Academy of the Arts. 

 

Øien, I. F., & Zanon, J. (2021). ‘No, YOU make it!’: Outsourcing  

   production to fashion consumers to mediate labour. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 8(2), 257-

   279.  https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00053_1  

 

Torres, L. (2024). Fashion ontology: Researching the possibilities for knowing through an expanded fashion practice. In E. Gaugele &

    M. Titton (Eds.)., Fashion knowledge: Theories, methods, practices and politics (pp. 53-69). Intellect Books. 

 

Torres, L. (2017). Fashion in the expanded field: Strategies for critical fashion practices. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2(22),

    167-183. https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.2.2.0167 

 

University of Borås. (2024, April). Dialogical bodies conference [Conference Proceedings]. Swedish School of Textiles, University of

    Borås, Västra Götaland, Sweden. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1859407/FULLTEXT01.pdf  

Lissaman, C. (2019, July 17). Guide to sustainable stretch fabric for designers. Common

  Objective. https://www.commonobjective.co/article/fabric switch-sourcing-sustainable-stretch#3

 

Textile Exchange. (2024, September 26). Materials market report 2024. https://textileexchange.org/knowledge-

  center/reports/materials-market-report-2024/