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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.

 

Fashion Highlight is indexed in Scopus
ISSN: 2975-0466 [Online]

 

OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 7 (2026)
THE LANGUAGES OF FASHION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON FASHION DISCOURSES

Guest Editors: Benjamin Wild and Natalia Berger
Full papers deadline: 10 January 2026

Current IssueNo 5 (2025)

Published 30 June 2025

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Affective Passage in Toxic Times: Fashion and Joy as Resistance
Khaya Mchunu, Nirma Madhoo
8-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3858

Essays

Clothing Without Bodies: Watching care and connection in images from Gaza
Cherine Fahd, Todd Robinson
16-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3604
Affective Fabrics of Resistance: Fashion, Embodiment, and Political Futurity in Toxic Times
Miriam Martínez Villar, Antonio Francisco Alaminos-Fernández
26-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3530
Say it with your whole chest: T-shirts as everyday joy and radically soft resistance
Shashi Cullinan Cook
34-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3651
Styled for Dissent: Fashion as Embodied Resistance in Contemporary Protests
Elisa Fiorilli, Tannaz Rahmani, Zeynep Karlidag
44-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3622
Meeting in Difference: Relational Responsibility in Fashion Encounters on the Silk Road
Jennifer Whitty, Angela Jansen, Richa Sood, Alua Duisenbek
54-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3600
Wool, Kala Cotton, and Eri Silk as Acts of Ecological Resistance: A Critical Inquiry into Sustainable Practices in Indian Textile Traditions
Pramila Choudhary, Amruthalakshmi Rajagopalan, Rachel MacHenry
62-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3632
Kun.Be: A Servitisation Framework for the Sustainable Revival of Goa’s Kunbi Saree
Divya Agarwal, Angelica Vandi, Paola Bertola
74-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3631
Changing Toxic Beauty Culture and the Climate Crisis in Nigeria
Adaku Ubelejit-Nte, Emmanuel Nwakanma
88-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3546
Lolitas, Mountain Witches and Sexy Gals: Japanese fashion as rebellious style from the Lost Decades to now
Hui-Ying Kerr
102-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3531

Creative & reflective works

An Ekphrastic Essay: Ember (Imagined Artwork)
Christian Thompson
114-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3660
Roses of Ties: Memory, Gender, and Craft as Post-Migration Practice in Contemporary Fashion
Ludmila Christeseva, Elena Volkova
120-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3624
Joyful under the Dragonfly: An Autoethnographic Fashion Account of Helsinki Pride 2025
Anna-Mari Almila
130-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3613

Exhibition & book review

Anber Onar's In Case
Shajwan Fatah
140-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3553
Judith Beyer (2025) Antigender Fashion: The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design
Karmen Samson
146-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3576
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