About
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]
Call for paper Issue 5 (2025): AFFECTIVE PASSAGE IN TOXIC TIMES. FASHION AND JOY AS RESISTANCE
Guest Editors: Khaya Mchunu and Nirma Madhoo
Full papers deadline: 5 July 2025
Guest Editors: Troy Nachtigall and Bruna Petreca
Full papers deadline: 15 July 2025
Current IssueNo 4 (2024)
Published 31 December 2024
Issue Description
The fourth issue of Fashion Highlight proposes a planetary perspective on fibre, viewing it as a dynamic interplay of material flows and forces shaped by both human and non-human actors, the living and the technological, and the crowded continuum between them. The papers for this issue 'Fashion’s Fibres as Planetary Flows’ write about the pivotal role of fibre in a circular economy, the governance of fibre, the ethics of fibre, the cultural histories of new and old fibre technologies, fibre and place, and provocations on fibre’s agency and materiality.
