Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery

Ateliers of 'Social Integration'

Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-28409-8 (ISBN)

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Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery: Ateliers of 'Social Integration' tells of community-led ‘solidarity ateliers’ engaged in sewing and embroidery activities which, in the Global North and Global South, are providing a vital alternative to neoliberal and neo-colonial fashion paradigms.

On encountering several ateliers solidaires/sartorie sociali during her immersive fieldwork, for which she travelled to Morocco and Southern Italy, and contrasting her findings with her knowledge of parallel and analogous initiatives in London, Alessandra Lopez y Royo suggests that despite their different outlook and approach these ateliers can be inscribed within an ever-growing economy of solidarity and sharing.

With a uniquely combined focus on sustainability, fashion and migration, Lopez y Royo examines how the ateliers foreground a powerful social inclusion agenda, encouraging migrants (and refugees) to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and foster communities on a level playing field with locals.

Questioning widely accepted notions of ‘empowerment’ and ‘social integration’, and drawing on her background in archaeology and material culture studies, Lopez y Royo uses micro-studies to illuminate a broader path to a more inclusive, sustainable, and socially conscious industry, presenting a fresh perspective on repurposing and upcycling.

In a world grappling with the need to shift away from fast fashion's wasteful practices, this thought-provoking exploration shows how slow-growth ‘solidarity ateliers’ can challenge the widely accepted notions of both ‘fashion’ and ‘social integration’.

Alessandra Lopez y Royo (aka Alex Bruni) is a former university Reader with a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS,) University of London. An activist committed to a diverse, inclusive and sustainable fashion, Alessandra has blogged and written for magazines and journals, and occasionally models. She is the author of Contemporary Indonesian Fashion: Through the Looking Glass (2019), the only English-language in-depth analysis of the fashion system in Indonesia, also published in this Bloomsbury series. Twitter: @alexb244 Instagram/Threads: @alexb244

List of plates
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Mosaic of threads

Part 1: Together we sew
1. Grainlines and selvedges
2. Disambiguating ‘sustainability’

Part 2: Fashion-ing in solidarity: Case studies in Socially Sustainable Eco-Fashion
3. Sartorie Sociali in Apulia and Sicily
4. When in Rome: Solidarity fashion meets embroidery art
5. The London/South-East experience: Social agendas and Brick Lane chic

Part 3: Fashion-ing an archaeological sensibility
6. We are all fashion archaeologists now: Vintage clothes, upcycling and mending

Epilogue: Cutting the selvedges

Appendix: list of online sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Dress and Fashion Research
Zusatzinfo	16 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-28409-2 / 1350284092
ISBN-13	978-1-350-28409-8 / 9781350284098
Zustand	Neuware