Fashion know-how volume 2: geographies

After a first volume devoted to sources published in 2023, this second work pursues a critical and detailed reflection on the notion of know-how by focusing on its territories and its movements. Mobilizing personalities from the world of fashion, intervening as well in the context academic as that of the workshops, this series of works participates in the breaking down barriers between disciplines. Through a plural approach to geography, All the contributors offer as many insights into the traditions artisanal and industrial, gestures, materials and actors which define the cultures of fashion manufacturing, through plans and itineraries. From the export of goods to the immigration of people, from the establishment of workshops to their relocation, the mechanics of cartographies offers keys of new readings to understand the materials and professions of fashion, the scale of a workshop or a street, of a neighborhood or of the planet. contributions collected here also evoke the establishment of artisan-passment makers in the 19th century, that the textile trade in India in through the craftsmanship of hair in the 21st century. Émilie Hammen thus brings together voices that help us better situate what brings together these multiple ways of see fashion and its know-how.