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0000-0001-8509-690X
Current Organisation
The University of Queensland Art Museum
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Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2018
Abstract: It is contended in this article that independent fashion retailers who display conscious and proactive cultural positioning can be considered as not only retail practitioners, but creative practitioners playing a cultural role in the fashion industry. Australian fashion retailer and designer Jenny Kee is used as a historic ex le. Kee opened her Flamingo Park retail store in Sydney in 1973 and later became one of Australia’s best-known fashion designers. Using primary sources from the Jenny Kee Archive at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney in addition to Kee’s recollections in her autobiography, Kee’s retail work is viewed through the lens of Bourdieu’s field theory and her position in the field of fashion and role as a cultural intermediary is established. By framing her work in this way, the potential for a fashion retailer to mediate culture for fashion consumers using retailing as their creative practice is demonstrated.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-06-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2019
DOI: 10.1386/AJPC_00008_1
Abstract: The humid, sub-tropical city of Brisbane is Australia’s third-largest and one often regarded as culturally inferior to its southern counterparts Sydney and Melbourne. However, the city has supported a small but active independent fashion scene, and this article examines three of these businesses, exploring how they positioned themselves in relation to the global fashion industry. It contributes to literature on local fashion industries in New Zealand, Scandinavia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Challenges and opportunities presented to local fashion businesses are considered, and ways in which these have changed over time is also discussed. Case studies are drawn from a period between 1950 and 2018 and were purposively chosen so that contemporary case studies could be contextualized with historical ex les. Research was conducted through archival research at the Queensland Museum, semi-structured interviews with participants and on-site observations. Findings confirm those of existing studies in the field that suggest local fashion businesses outside of large cities and dominant fashion centres may struggle to remain relevant in a fast-paced global industry, but have an opportunity to develop and foster close bonds to local cultural scenes and to contribute to place-making in the cities in which they are located.
Publisher: SComS
Date: 20-05-2019
DOI: 10.24434/J.SCOMS.2018.02.014
Abstract: This article focuses on the intersection of the material and the digital in the independent fashion sector, with a focus on ways in which digital media and contemporary communication tools are being used to unite them. It explores the tension between the opportunities provided to small business in the contemporary media landscape and its use in a sector closely associated with a nostalgic valorisation of material qualities related to nature, artisanship and luxury. It further examines ways in which the communication of material characteristics through technological platforms contributes symbolic value to independent fashion as a cultural product. Thematic analysis was conducted of online texts and images related to three contemporary American independent labels in a three-year period (2014 –2017). The study finds that instead of being viewed as a threat to the independent fashion sector’s driving ethos, technology has been embraced as a tool allowing independent fashion producers to lify their voices as they challenge existing fashion paradigms.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2019
Location: Australia
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