Attaining Poise: A Movement-based Lens Exploring Embodiment in Fashion

Robinson, T

Attaining Poise: A Movement-based Lens Exploring Embodiment in Fashion

Robinson, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 2019, 23 (3), pp. 441 - 458
Issue Date:: 2019-05-04

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dc.contributor.author	Robinson, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-4771	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-05-04	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 2019, 23 (3), pp. 441 - 458	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1362-704X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/139283
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article makes a case for increased dialogue between the visual-, sensory-, and material-based methods currently available within social research and modes of socio-cultural enquiry typically used in fashion studies. Its aim is to demonstrate that studies of embodiment in fashion can be enriched by approaches that integrate the making and use of fashion garments as well as the tactile and kinesthetic experiences of bodies that wear them in investigations of embodied experience. The article outlines a movement-based perspective developed with reference to a series of participatory activities best described as “sartorial sessions.” When combined with digital video technology, these sessions make it possible to read the sartorial movements of the body with a precision unavailable to unmediated perception. The article demonstrates the way visual-, material-, and sensory-based empirical work in embodiment opens new ways to understand and explore the body in fashion. The article concludes by introducing Poise, a dynamic modality which realizes a shift in focus from cultural analysis of the body towards explorations of the body in fashion as an adaptive and sensory structure.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/1362704X.2019.1603876	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Anthropology	en_US
dc.title	Attaining Poise: A Movement-based Lens Exploring Embodiment in Fashion	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	23	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
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Abstract:

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article makes a case for increased dialogue between the visual-, sensory-, and material-based methods currently available within social research and modes of socio-cultural enquiry typically used in fashion studies. Its aim is to demonstrate that studies of embodiment in fashion can be enriched by approaches that integrate the making and use of fashion garments as well as the tactile and kinesthetic experiences of bodies that wear them in investigations of embodied experience. The article outlines a movement-based perspective developed with reference to a series of participatory activities best described as “sartorial sessions.” When combined with digital video technology, these sessions make it possible to read the sartorial movements of the body with a precision unavailable to unmediated perception. The article demonstrates the way visual-, material-, and sensory-based empirical work in embodiment opens new ways to understand and explore the body in fashion. The article concludes by introducing Poise, a dynamic modality which realizes a shift in focus from cultural analysis of the body towards explorations of the body in fashion as an adaptive and sensory structure.

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