2021Jeppe Ugelvig

21STYLECLOTHES

Jeppe UgelvigLaura BrownKristian Vistrup MadsenFemke De VriesAnna FranceschiniIssy WoodDal ChodhaLaura GardnerBruno ZhuElse SklvollThorenfeldtRhonda LiebermanPaige K. BradleyChristian OldhamVictoria ColmegnaAnna-SophieEric N. MackExactitudes

Issue 2 inverts issue 1’s focus on the immaterial notion of style to instead explore the most material of fashion’s building blocks: clothes. Clothes are literally everywhere and cite complicated systems of production, distribution, and exchange on their paths around the world. Still, they never fully reveal their journey or destination, and may often signify little else than their own commodity status, the total genericness of the fashion product. Bringing together a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, the issue sets out to explore clothes as a signifier at once empty and over- burdened: as expressions of desires, people and places, as palimpsests for capitalist production cycles and histories of dressed bodies, and even, as nondescript material debris.