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Fashion Highlight is an academic journal dedicated to research in the field of fashion design, with a perspective that investigates both the conception, design, production and communication of the fashion product, and its cultural, aesthetic and technological implications. Fashion is a constantly evolving sector, capable of reflecting and influencing the transformations of society through design, innovation and experimentation. 

The journal welcomes studies that explore fashion design in its many forms: from the design and production of fabrics, garments and accessories, to the analysis of applied materials and technologies, to connections with related disciplines that enrich the sector, such as communication, economics and social sciences. Although rooted in the field of fashion design, Fashion Highlight recognises the value of transdisciplinary intersections, welcoming contributions that broaden the understanding of fashion as a cultural, economic and technological phenomenon.

 

ISSN: 2975-0466 [Online]

Fashion Highlight is indexed in Scopus     

Fashion Highlight is a Diamond Open Access Journal     

 

Call for Papers Issue 9 (2027)
CONVERGING TRANSFORMATIONS IN FASHION EDUCATION: TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE, INNOVATIVE, AND SUSTAINABLE LEARNING CULTURES
Guest Editors: Romana Andò & Shawana Khalil

Full paper deadline: 30 November 2026

Current IssueNo 7 (2026): The Languages of Fashion. Critical Reflections on Fashion Discourses

Published 30 June 2026

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Table of Contents

Editorial

The Language of Fashion: Critical Reflections on Fashion Discourses
Benjamin Wild, Natalia Berger
10-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-4228

Essays - Eliciting

Reading Fashion from the Threshold: Discursive Instability and the Geopolitics of Fashion’s Periphery
Barbara Alejandra Pino Ahumada
24-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3963
Hardshell, Softshell and Beyond: The Integration of Foreign Words Into the Vocabulary of Outdoor Clothing in Italy
Carola Borgia
36-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3930
Fashionising Philosophy: The Translation of Philosophical Texts into Fashion Campaigns
Danae Ioannou
48-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3932
Suit Up! The Business Suit as Myth and Revolution in The Intuitionist
Kristen HallGeisler
60-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3819
Influencers, Icons, and Illusions: Myth-making in Indian Fashion
Srijana Baruah
68-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3955
Quiet Consumption: MUJI, Minimalism, and the Aesthetic Management of Abundance
Huei-Wen Lo
86-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3929

Essays - Experiencing

Fabric First, Language Last? Reframing Fashion’s Epistemic Infrastructures through Material Intelligence
Matthew Coats
100-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3797
Quiet Resistance: The Fashion Toile as Material Language
Michelle Marshall
112-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3966
Worldmaking through Collaborative Craft: Community-Based Fashion Practices in Kampala
Doris Posch
126-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3954
Negotiating Fashion Discourses in Craft Contexts: Adaptive Co-Creation and Agency in the Vietnam Design Research Studio
Donna Cleveland, Corinna Joyce, Peter Cleveland, Matthias Waldhart, Kristina Rylander, Hanh Nguyen
142-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3899
Contesting Meaning and Infrastructures of Agency in Contemporary Fashion: The Case of A Sewing Machine of One’s Own
Eleonora Cecere
156-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3965
Sustainability as Language in Contemporary Jewellery: Discourses, Myths, and the Legitimation of Value
Dr. Susanna Testa, Prof. Livia Tenuta
166-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3914
Shifting to a Narrative of Fashion for Attunement
Giulia Ciola
182-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3933

Fashion Mythologies

Original: Fashion's Trivial Mystery
Maria Spadoni Battistoni
196-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3906
The Bakkersbuis and the Myth of the Dutch Baker
Nathan Douenburg
202-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3925
The Kimono Cover Up
Maria Delifoti
210-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3962
Layers of Speed: How Fast Fashion Rewrites Time, Memory and Matter
J Carlos Garcia-Reyes, Ester Gutierrez Mecias
214-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3919

Fashion Lexigraphy

The Lexicon of Su**********ty: Faux, Eco, Vegan, Bio Leather
Clizia Moradei
224-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3790
Flattering: You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Leila Kelleher, Shannon Flaherty
230-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3908
The Semiotics of Standardized Sizing Systems
Karmen Samson
236-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3904
From Androgynous to Gender-Fluid Fashion
Judith Beyer
244-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3907
World Fashion
Aliena Guggenberger
250-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3903
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