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    Fashion Fictions by Holroyd, Amy Twigger;

    Imagining Sustainable Worlds

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 11 December 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350435636
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 248x190x18 mm
    • Weight 833 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 110 colour illus
    • 700

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    Long description:

    If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up?

    An open access book, Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas received.

    Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative and original project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely - in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These fascinating imaginings are fleshed out and brought to life by each chapter.

    A source of inspiration for designers, researchers, activists and students alike, Fashion Fictions encourages its readers to reimagine the world around them and reveals what people are really yearning for in their experience of fashion.

    The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgements
    Data Access Statement

    World index

    1 The Place Between
    How change looks
    Imagining otherwise
    Box 1.1: Further reading
    Embracing the impossible

    2 Speculating sideways
    Envisioning parallel worlds
    Box 2.1: Stage 1 - writing a world
    Box 2.2: Stage 2 - making a prototype
    Bringing the worlds to life
    Box 2.3: Stage 3 - creating an enactment
    Box 2.4: Capturing wonder
    Exploring the book

    3 Stories and language
    Fashion stories
    Telling stories
    Wording stories
    Box 3.1: Take action - garment-description game
    Performing stories
    Stories and language: ideas for the real world

    4 Nature and spirituality
    Fashion and nature
    Post-nature communities
    Meeting the mushrooms
    Box 4.1: Take action - meet the mushrooms
    Fashion and spirituality
    Nature and spirituality: ideas for the real world

    5 Place and togetherness
    Locations and localism
    Places for togetherness
    Ritualizing fashion
    Box 5.1: Take action - ritual garment exchange
    Trends and connection
    Box 5.2: Take action - resourceful styling
    Place and togetherness: ideas for the real world

    6 Organization and adaptation
    Organizing fashion
    Organizing otherwise
    Restriction and rebellion
    Limits, resourcefulness and adaptation
    Organization and adaptation: ideas for the real world

    7 Pulling the possibilities
    Speculation, wonder and change
    Box 7.1: Wonder gallery
    Lingering experiences: possibility and stories
    Making change: prefiguration
    Box 7.2: Playing in prefigurative mode
    Looping back

    Bibliography
    References
    Index

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