Fashion Fictions

Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd is Professor of Alternative Fashion Systems at Nottingham School of Art & Design, part of Nottingham Trent University. She has explored the emerging field of fashion and sustainability since 2004, initially via her craft fashion knitwear label, Keep & Share. Amy’s work has been featured in various exhibitions, books and publications, from Vogue to Fashion Theory. Amy has authored and edited several books, including her monograph Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023).

Usually, more fiction and more fantasy is not what fashion needs, for fashion has long pretended that it has nothing to do with the earth – until now. Fashion Fictions is an outstanding book about the radical power of imagination and action to change fashion for good.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Data Access Statement World index 1 The Place Between How change looks Imagining otherwiseBox 1.1: Further reading Embracing the impossible 2 Speculating sideways Envisioning parallel worlds Activity 2.1: Stage 1 – writing a world Activity 2.2: Stage 2 – making a prototype Bringing the worlds to life Activity 2.3: Stage 3 – creating an enactment Activity 2.4: Capturing wonder Exploring the book 3 Stories and language Fashion stories Telling stories Wording stories Activity 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 Activity 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 Activity 5.1: Take action – ritual garment exchange Trends and connection Activity 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 Activity 7.2: Playing in prefigurative mode Looping back NotesSelect Bibliography Index