[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Display: The Places and Spaces of Fashion (6/15/06; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

DISPLAY: THE PLACES AND SPACES OF FASHION

The editor invites essays for a book which explores the relationship(s)
between identity, display, space, and fashion. Recently, we have
witnessed the global expansion of more spectacular and grandeur designer
boutiques with designers collaborating with famed architects to become
cutting-edge places of innovation and spectacle, while numerous
exhibitions and institutions have lent their spaces to explore the
visual and material cultures of fashion. Never before has fashion played
such a pivotal role in the cultural, social, and private lives of some
many. Yet the spaces and places which allow all this to take place
remain obscured functioning simply as backdrops when in fact they are
pivotal to the creation of meaning and the very notion and function of
display. While there is a rich and significant body of work which has
interrogated the practices of shopping and fashion as object of
consumption, critical attention has viewed the places and spaces of
fashion simply in terms of capitalism and consumer culture obliterating
the myriad nuanced layers involved. In addition, more recently, much has
been made of the connections, metaphorical or otherwise, between fashion
and architecture, paying little attention to the material and visual
connections, objects and bodies interacting in and negotiating the
spaces of fashion. In other words, attention has been paid to the
surface/flesh/fabric of fashion and architecture, and little to the
depth/interior/insides of these places and spaces. This volume hopes to
explore the display of fashion as a site of spectacle, desire, pleasure,
identity, and performance. In sum, what we are discussing here is the
topography and spatial representations of fashion.

The editor invites papers both historical and theoretical which address
either or all of the following central core themes:
- how spaces, established either temporarily or permanently, define
fashion’s meaning and knowledge for society or the individual;
- the sites of production, circulation, exhibition, consumption, and
promotion of fashion; and the spatial interstices which provide for a
bond between embodied consumers/spectators and fashion
objects.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the
following spatial structures/narratives:
•	Boudoirs/closets/change rooms
•	Museum/gallery exhibitions
•	Spaces of protest through fashion
•	Movement and navigation of the body
•	The senses and the phenomenological
•	Department stores and boutiques
•	Runway/fashion shows
•	Window displays/store fronts/mannequins
•	Trade shows (international or national)
•	Tailor shops
•	Other cultural venues whose primary purpose has nothing to do with
fashion, but whose spaces and the literature pertaining to its renown as
a centre of display has made it significant, such as operas,
theaters, nightclubs or other specific events/venues
•	Show rooms/work rooms
•	The body’s relationships to the spaces of fashion
•	The relationship of ‘fine art’ to the display of
fashion
•	Performative aspect of being ‘in’ spaces of and
‘looking’ at display
•	The blurring of the ideals of private/public,
inside/outside, personal/social, depth/surface
•	Fashion districts as they function as a display
within the context of the city as a whole
•	Ateliers (private and couture showrooms)
•	Display as pedagogical tool for fashion students
•	Virtual and cyber spaces of display and sartorial
interaction

The editor seeks contributions from scholars and curators working in any
geographic location between 1700-2006.

Please submit a 500-750 word abstract (for completed papers to be in the
range of 5000 to 7000 words including endnotes), in addition to a 200
word relevant bio. by email.

Deadline for abstracts and bio. (and if available completed paper):
Friday 16 June 2006.

Notification of selection will be made early July 2006.


Dr. John Potvin
Assistant Professor
School of Fine Art and Music
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON
N1G 2W1 Canada

+ 519-824-4120 ext. 56741
j_potvin99 at yahoo.ca





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