Classifications and hierarchies have always informed our understanding of the long history of garment- and accessory-making. While featherworkers and jewellers still brilliantly represent this technical expertise in the creative field, many skills and tools remain little-known or undervalued.
This book provides an inventory of these practices and proposes a reconsideration of certain techniques usually associated with the domestic sphere, such as mending, repairing, and altering. By examining the ways in which noble and amateur skills are passed on and acquired, and by considering the tensions and complementarities between hand and machine, the texts brought together here invite us to move beyond these often overly categorical oppositions and explore with fresh eyes the variety of skills that make up fashion – both ordinary and exceptional, from yesterday to nowadays.
Mathieu Bassée, Clémence Blanc, Marie Colas des Francs, Anne Dressen, Serena Dyer, Lilien Lisbeth Feledy, Emmanuelle Garcin, Élise Giansily, Laurence Gros, Émilie Hammen, Colleen Hill, Zoé Kiner-Wolff, Camille Kovalevsky, Maximilien Lebaudy, Ben Lignel, Huayra Llanque, Lucy McKenzie, Aude Monié, Stéphanie Ovide, Amandine Pâris, Célia Pym, Ida Soulard, Marlène Van de Casteele, Victoria Vásquez Pecile, Jeanne Vicerial
Classifications and hierarchies have always informed our understanding of the long history of garment- and accessory-making. While featherworkers and jewellers still brilliantly represent this technical expertise in the creative field, many skills and tools remain little-known or undervalued.
This book provides an inventory of these practices and proposes a reconsideration of certain techniques usually associated with the domestic sphere, such as mending, repairing, and altering. By examining the ways in which noble and amateur skills are passed on and acquired, and by considering the tensions and complementarities between hand and machine, the texts brought together here invite us to move beyond these often overly categorical oppositions and explore with fresh eyes the variety of skills that make up fashion – both ordinary and exceptional, from yesterday to nowadays.
Mathieu Bassée, Clémence Blanc, Marie Colas des Francs, Anne Dressen, Serena Dyer, Lilien Lisbeth Feledy, Emmanuelle Garcin, Élise Giansily, Laurence Gros, Émilie Hammen, Colleen Hill, Zoé Kiner-Wolff, Camille Kovalevsky, Maximilien Lebaudy, Ben Lignel, Huayra Llanque, Lucy McKenzie, Aude Monié, Stéphanie Ovide, Amandine Pâris, Célia Pym, Ida Soulard, Marlène Van de Casteele, Victoria Vásquez Pecile, Jeanne Vicerial
