Feel this, it's still warm

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
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k. Residency, Will You Bring Your Book
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m. ↗ Measuring Our Impact
n. ↗ Inside Our Wardrobe
o. ↗ Envisioning the Clothes Swapping Movement
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e. Feel this, it’s still warm: Convening grief-garments as portals for grief
Feel This, It’s Still Warm is the title of my MA graduation work and thesis. In my thesis, I propose the term “grief-garments” to describe clothing items that encapsulate the memory and essence of the deceased. It seeks to explore these garments through multiple dimensions: visual, sensorial, mnemonic, embodied, imaginary, and ephemeral. These layers allow garments to be expressions of grief, carrying affective and sensory traces of their former wearers.

Situated within fashion studies, Feel This, It’s Still Warm highlights the significance of grief-garments in understanding object agency—the idea that garments can influence emotions, behaviors, and identities. This emphasis on affect and agency repositions clothing as an active participant in human relationships, especially in moments of emotional intensity. Rather than static or passive items, grief-garments are seen as dynamic, capable of eliciting memory, emotion, and presence.

2025
Designed by Kasper Quaink

Typefaces: Inclusive Sans, OFL Mill Goudy, Libre Caslon Condensed
Paper: Emotion Natural 90 m/2, Lessebo Design Smooth, 240 g/m2
Binding: Side Sewn
Printing: ArtEZ Arnhem
Publisher: Clothes Press

Thesis supervisor: Daniëlle Bruggerman
Graduation project supervisors: Isabel Mundigo-Moore and Staci Bu Shea
Research tutors: Hanka van der Voet and Femke de Vries

Send me a letter sxingyun@gmail.com • Jul 2025