What is it about?
This article introduces the concept of site-specific collections, explains the peculiarities of fashion-based public art practice, and defines their objectives, features and theoretical framework. Drawing from several projects completed alongside diverse communities, the article demonstrates that integrating fashion with public art makes for a uniquely effective way to empower and strengthen participating communities.
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This article introduces the concept of site-specific collections, explains the peculiarities of fashion-based public art practice, and defines the objectives, features and theoretical framing of this creative modality.
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This publication is seminal to anyone interested in learning about how fashion design methods can authentically foster participation among audiences otherwise intimidated or uninterested in contemporary art.
Henry Navarro Delgado
Toronto Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Fashion as public art: Strengthening communities through site-specific fashion collections, Fashion Style & Popular Culture, August 2014, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/fspc.1.3.445_1.
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