No 7 (2026): The Languages of Fashion. Critical Reflections on Fashion Discourses

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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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