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Fashion Fictions

Imagining Sustainable Worlds

  • Open Access
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Fashion Fictions

Imagining Sustainable Worlds

  • Open Access
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Description

If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up?

An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas received.

Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative and original project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely – in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These fascinating imaginings are fleshed out and brought to life by each chapter.

A source of inspiration for designers, researchers, activists and students alike, Fashion Fictions encourages its readers to reimagine the world around them and reveals what people are really yearning for in their experience of fashion.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Data Access Statement

World index

1 The Place Between
How change looks
Imagining otherwise
Box 1.1: Further reading
Embracing the impossible

2 Speculating sideways
Envisioning parallel worlds
Box 2.1: Stage 1 – writing a world
Box 2.2: Stage 2 – making a prototype
Bringing the worlds to life
Box 2.3: Stage 3 – creating an enactment
Box 2.4: Capturing wonder
Exploring the book

3 Stories and language
Fashion stories
Telling stories
Wording stories
Box 3.1: Take action – garment-description game
Performing stories
Stories and language: ideas for the real world

4 Nature and spirituality
Fashion and nature
Post-nature communities
Meeting the mushrooms
Box 4.1: Take action – meet the mushrooms
Fashion and spirituality
Nature and spirituality: ideas for the real world

5 Place and togetherness
Locations and localism
Places for togetherness
Ritualizing fashion
Box 5.1: Take action – ritual garment exchange
Trends and connection
Box 5.2: Take action – resourceful styling
Place and togetherness: ideas for the real world

6 Organization and adaptation
Organizing fashion
Organizing otherwise
Restriction and rebellion
Limits, resourcefulness and adaptation
Organization and adaptation: ideas for the real world

7 Pulling the possibilities
Speculation, wonder and change
Box 7.1: Wonder gallery
Lingering experiences: possibility and stories
Making change: prefiguration
Box 7.2: Playing in prefigurative mode
Looping back

Bibliography
References
Index

Product details

Published Nov 27 2025
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781350435636
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations 110 colour illus
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Amy Twigger Holroyd

Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd is Associate Professor of F…

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