"Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair" says Karl Lagerfeld, head designer of Chanel. It seems to be agreed that fashion is transient and ever changing, never stationary and never fixed (Kawamura, 2005). As Lipovetsky (2002) puts it, the question becomes "How has an institution structured by evanescence and aesthetic fantasy managed to take root in human history? How are we to conceptualize and account for the establishment of shallow instability as a permanent system?" From this problematic standpoint, here, I map the domains of experimentation in this notable field, namely, fast fashion, virtual fashion, hacking fashion, and eco fashion. I demonstrate how fashion experiments emerged, are embodied and entwined in various landscapes andhow they are in a dialogue with each other.
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