Xingyun Shen
Is

Fermenting 
    a. Clothes Press
    b. Marginalia Book Club
    c. Wardrobe interviews
    d. Scores of a grey hair
Publishing
    e. Feel this, it’s still warm
    f. Will You Bring Your Book to dblspce
    g. The Journal of Wear
    h. What You Are Looking For Is...
    i. Marginalia 7 to 16
    j. MANIFESTO
Reading 
    k. Residency, Will You Bring Your Book
Writing
    l. Published articles
    m. ↗ Measuring Our Impact
    n. ↗ Inside Our Wardrobe
    o. ↗ Envisioning the Clothes Swapping Movement            
Speaking 
    p. Conferences
    q. Podcasts
    r. Interviews



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p. Conferences
(i) Fashion Becoming: Redefining the Voices of Fashion
Ambivalent of the alternative: The niche as a bubble and flourishing ground
19 Apr 2024
Presented in collaboration with Giulia Coluccello     

Abstract: In this paper, the authors examined the possibilities of alternative fashion educational structures using the MA Critical Fashion Practices programme as a case study. By affirming and critiquing the existence of an alternative fashion education through the authors’ own experiences while acknowledging the hierarchies of fashion and institution-led education, it invites readers to question how fashion educators and participants can contribute to the wider fashion discourse and the societies and cultures we care about.

Organised by students from Parsons Paris MA Fashion Studies, London College of Fashion MA Fashion Cultures and Histories, V&A/RCA History of Design MA
      Read the paper ↗here




(ii) Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia
Notes on the wardrobe
5–6 May 2023

Abstract: Wardrobes are subconscious documentation of our past, present and future selves. How can understanding what we keep, wear, and discard, forge meaningful relationships between wearers and clothes? This presentation looked at a wearers-focused collaborative wardrobe study, interviews with clothes-swappers in their homes, and a Singapore-focused multi-media zine in response to Fashion Revolution’s Manifesto for a Fashion Revolution to carve out alternative fashion spaces and practices. It concluded with a visualisation of how incorporating care practices into our wardrobe can enable fashion to be demystified as an exclusionary circle.

Organised by The Courtauld Research Forum and Fashion & Market
      Watch the conference recording ↗here

           

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