A Crisis of Power in Fashion: Is There Agency for Change?. (2nd September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: von Busch, Otto
• Is Part Of: Fashion practice. Volume 11:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 302
• Page End: 308
• Publication Date: 2019-09-02
• Subjects: power -- sustainability -- agency -- user-engagement -- repair; Fashion design -- Periodicals; Costume design -- Periodicals; Clothing trade -- Periodicals; Fashion -- Periodicals; 746.92
• DOI: 10.1080/17569370.2019.1662234
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1756-9370

Abstract

Abstract: A growing consensus is emerging that the modus operandi of the fashion system is in need of change. Yet for change it requires not only incentives but the agency and power to transform. Designers must ask what kind of power is needed to change, and how such power can be mobilized, cultivated and leveraged.