In:
Utopian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University Press, Vol. 28, No. 3 ( 2017-11-01), p. 505-527
Abstract:
Fashion suX is an artistic research project of imaginative utopia creation in the tradition of Thomas More. But instead of an imaginary society on an island, the project explores how a radically different fashion culture could emerge in the footsteps of hardcore and Straight Edge metal. The project specifically examines the underground fashion and craft movement that called themselves suXers (sometimes referred to as “sustainable fashion Straight Edge”). Radically opposing the “do-good” ethics of consumerist sustainability, the suXers embody an ethic that imbues not only clothes and lifestyle but also an infuriated rejection of the fashion system's sartorial betrayal. Opposition needs other motivations than pure virtue, and anger can be one such motivation, as exemplified by the suXers.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1045-991X
,
2154-9648
DOI:
10.5325/utopianstudies.28.3.0505
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2069687-5
SSG:
7,24
