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

该研究项目旨在分析和可视化伦敦自1984年以来的时装业，即伦敦时装周的创办，以便更好地理解：i）所涉及的不同代理人; ii）设计、制造、展示和消费的过程; iii）不同地点和时装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的个案研究服装，接近他们不仅是复杂的物质对象与精心制作的意义，而且作为对象，通过网站和城市的空间移动，并有其他类型的连接到遥远的地方。第二，分析将围绕这些地理的一系列地图可视化组织，从设计到生产和消费追踪案例研究服装，并对构成伦敦时尚产业的复杂的人和地方网络进行新的阐述。这个跨学科的研究项目将联合收割机时尚，美术，地理和建筑历史研究方法相结合，并将揭示新的，从1984年到现在，这是一部关于伦敦时尚产业和文化的未成文的叙述。该项目将利用作者自己在该行业的丰富专业经验，表达各种个人观点。这项工作将有助于不断发展的话语创意产业，伦敦作为一个时尚之都（以及更广泛的遗产伦敦）和设计，制作，工艺，营销，推广和消费的过程，跟踪每个地理。它将通过实践一种结合学术和实践的方法来实现这一目标，重点关注一系列独特的时尚地理地图。这种时尚研究和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.