Dissolving the Ego of Fashion: Engaging with Human Matters

by Daniëlle Bruggeman

Dissolving the Ego of Fashion explores critical theories and practices that help to better understand and rethink the cracks in the fashion system. In doing so, this publication examines the role that fashion plays-and could potentially play-in urgent socio-cultural, environmental and political developments in contemporary society. Daniëlle Bruggeman focuses on the importance of envisioning a more engaged future of fashion that does more justice to fashion's human dimension. This entails fundamentally redefining the value systems from which we work and live, as well as reconsidering how we engage with each other and the material resources of the earth. Due to its power of imagination, fashion can function as a tool to conceptualise and realise a more meaningful, inclusive, resilient-and above all more human-future society.

56 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Frea Norman]

The ego of fashion is also what stops it from truly becoming something good. Good for people, the planet, for art.

Bruggeman encourages us to consider the embodiment of clothing in all its forms, from the makers hands to the wearers limbs, and sometimes the embodiment of the fibres themselves.

Some of the art included in this was awesome too

[Mariana Infante López]

De mis libros favoritos de moda que he leído. Es un conjunto de tres ensayos que profundiza en teorías filosóficas de la moda, pero con argumentos que pueden aplicar a muchas otras industrias. Tal vez la academia no es tan práctica a la hora del cambio, no acciona mucho y puede sentirse muy pasiva. Pero es activa en otros sentidos. Nos recuerda que parte del cambio también es sentarse a reflexionar, que aparte de ser seres corporales somos mente y consciencia.