Fashion and Affect in the Digital Age

This volume examines current debates and critical issues that emerge from the entanglement of fashion and technology, as it unfolds through sensuous and embodied registers of affect, emotion and digital intimacy.Beginning with a multidisciplinary discussion of the potential of affective experiences in fashion trends, this edited collection brings together contributions from a diverse range of perspectives, bridging fashion studies, affect theory and media scholarship. Part I considers how digital environments and technological encounters shape the affective construction of fashion selves, revealing how identity, authenticity, and embodiment are continually negotiated through technology. Moving deeper into the intersections of affect, technology and embodiment, Part II explores how digital fashion transforms what it means to sense and feel through the body, blurring the boundaries between material and immaterial, human and technology. Finally, Part III expands the discussion to material industrial and ecological transformations of fashion in the digital age, examining how technological innovation re-shapes emotional and sensory engagements with fashion.Exploring how fashion’s aesthetic, emotional, embodied, and sensory dimensions are reconfigured in evolving technologically-mediated contexts, this collection appeals to a varied interdisciplinary audience. It offers a timely critical resource for researchers and scholars interested in the often-overlooked intersections of fashion, affect and technology; for undergraduate and postgraduate students seeking academic grounding in transformative cultural trends; and for fashion practitioners engaging with experimental, digital and immersive approaches.