Fashion Highlight #3: (Un)consuming Fashion Consumption

The third issue of Fashion Highlight, guest-edited by Valeria Maria Iannilli and Alessandra Spagnoli, investigates the dynamics, practices, and impacts of fashion consumption in the light of the transformations taking place, questioning the role and potential that fashion industries, creative communities, consumers and education can express. The issue comprehensively covers the different declinations of contemporary fashion consumption, highlighting the trajectories that shape practices, processes and methods within the context of the – long and complex – fashion value chain.

The contributions cover three relevant and promising macro-areas to understand the state of the art of fashion design, manufacturing and consumption and to get a preview of the near future:

Consumed fashion, with a focus on the economic-productive dimension of fashion within a context for which digital and sustainable transformation is crucial, with necessary implications in terms of reconfiguring and updating processes and competencies;

Consumer communities, through the investigation of new and contemporary orientations towards more responsible and sustainable consumption practices;

Consumer culture concerns the dynamics, approaches and practices through which fashion is narrated, conveyed, and experienced.

The full issue is available here: Fashion Highlight #3: (UN)CONSUMING FASHION CONSUMPTION