The geography of garments: cartographies of London's fashion industry from 1984 onward.

本研究项目旨在分析和可视化1984年伦敦时装周发起的伦敦时装产业，以便更好地理解：i)不同的代理商参与；Ii)设计过程；制造;展示和消费；Iii)时尚不同场所和空间之间的相互联系。分析的核心是两个关键要素：首先，分析将集中在一系列案例研究服装上，不仅将其视为具有精心制作意义的复杂物质对象，而且将其视为在城市的场地和空间中移动的对象，并与遥远的地方有其他类型的联系。其次，分析将围绕这些地理位置的一系列可视化地图进行组织，追踪从设计到生产和消费的案例研究服装，并为构成伦敦时尚产业的人和地点的复杂网络提供新的视角。这个跨学科的研究项目将结合时尚、美术、地理和建筑史的研究方法，并将揭示1984年至今伦敦时尚产业和文化的新的、以前未写的叙述。该项目将利用作者在行业中丰富的专业经验，为不同的个人观点提供声音。这项工作将对创意产业、伦敦作为时尚之都（以及伦敦更广泛的遗产）以及设计、制作、工艺、营销、推广和消费的过程的不断发展的话语做出贡献，追踪每个地区的地理位置。它将通过将学术和实践相结合的方法付诸实践，并将重点放在一系列独特的时尚地理地图上。这种时尚研究与对城市空间性的密切关注的结合将为该行业提供新的分析和可视化。

This research project aims to analyse and visualise the fashion industry in London from 1984, the year that London Fashion Week was launched, in order to better understand: i) the different agents involved; ii) the processes of design; manufacture; display and consumption; iii) interconnections between different sites and spaces of fashion.At the heart of the analysis are two key elements: first, the analysis will focus on a series of case-study garments, approaching them not just as complex material objects with crafted meanings, but also as objects that move through the sites and spaces of the city and that have other kinds of connections with distant places. Second the analysis will be organized around a series of cartographic visualizations of these geographies, tracing the case-study garments from design through production and consumption, and shedding new light on the complex networks of people and places which make up London's fashion industry.This interdisciplinary research project will combine fashion, fine art, geography, and architectural history research methods, and will uncover new, previously unwritten narratives on London's fashion industry and culture, between 1984 and the present. The project will capitalise on the author's own extensive professional experience in the industry to give voice to a diverse range of individuals' perspectives. The work will make a contribution to evolving discourse on creative industries, London as a fashion capital (as well as the wider heritage of London) and the processes of design, making, craft, marketing, promotion and consumption, tracing the geographies of each. It will do so through putting to practice a combined scholarly and practice-led approach with a focus on a series of distinctive maps of fashion's geographies. This combination of fashion studies and close attention to urban spatiality will provide a new analysis and visualisation of the industry.