Cloth and clothing: made, sold, worn, and read as identity.
Ways in
Material analysis, historical research, ethnography, production studies.
The longer story
Fashion and textiles sit between art, craft, industry, and everyday life. Clothes are worn—they have to work as clothes. But they also communicate identity, status, belonging, rebellion. The fashion system produces desire on schedule. Ethnographic approaches study how people actually dress; historical research traces changing conventions; material culture examines construction and fabric; critical theory decodes what fashion says we should want. The body is always in the frame.