La mode comme indiscipline

La mode comme indiscipline – Exhibited, mediatized, praised or criticized, fashion defines an important part of the material history of our societies. Like its complex and mobile industry, fashion is a discipline in the making, an interdisciplinary field of research that has gradually appropriated the analytical grids and critical tools of neighboring sciences, while feeding on its own paradoxes and ambiguities.

Between permanence and novelty, materiality and immateriality, La Mode comme indiscipline intends to bear witness to the richness of this creative field by taking stock of thinking on, by and for fashion. Researchers, philosophers, designers, performers, collectors and artistic directors have been invited to examine these territories together, focusing on four central themes: the formation of styles between clichés and emancipation; forms of fashion conservation, both artistic and heritage; the relationship between this industry and the market; and finally, current creative processes, from an ecological and resilience perspective.

This book is the result of the eponymous symposium organized by the École des arts décoratifs and the École Duperré at Cerisy in 2021.