Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 – AUTHORIAL NETWORKS

Matters of Signatures: from Authenticity to Intimacy
Authorial Bodies and Stories
Authorizing Visible and Invisible Voices
Multiple Authors
Aesthetic and Disciplinary Dialogues
Keeping and Expanding Authorship
Blurring Fashion Authorities
Authorial Networks

CHAPTER 2 – PERFOMANCES OF TIME

One Ephemera, Multiple Events
Between Disappearance and Permanence
The Look Moment
Show(ing) Time
The Liveness of the Show
Show Mediatization
Allusive Fragments
Performances of Imagination

CHAPTER 3 – POETIC TRANSFORMATIONS

A Ménage à Trois
Haptic Fashion Images
Material Animations
The Sense of Fabric
Point of Touch
Paratexts and Touching Concepts
Poetics Transformations

Conclusions

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This book focuses on contemporary fashion ephemera like catalogs, invitations, and press releases, to explore an overlooked aspect of creativity in fashion.

About the Author

Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor and Program Director for the MA in Fashion Studies at Parsons Paris, The New School, France.

Reviews

Fashion Remains carries out an unprecedented study, which analyzes material that has been overlooked by researchers in the field of fashion studies ... Marco Pecorari and his book contribute to the development of fashion studies, and it is a great reading recommendation for those researchers looking for new perspectives within their studies on material culture and fashion. The book enables the reader to realize the potential to explore other artefacts, places, and practices of the fashion system beyond clothing, fashion shows, and museums, such as fashion ephemera and the archive.
*Journal of Dress History*

[A]n excellent book. An engaging read by a researcher with a compelling and at times poetic authorial voice, and a worthy addition to any fashion library both personal and institutional. Pecorari invites us as fashion scholars to triangulate our research with an alternative data set, that we may generate yet more nuanced and compelling analyses of our subjects. Using his examination of ephemera through communication theoretical perspectives to advance a valuable new sub-discipline of fashion research.
*Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture*