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Fashion Studies

Fashion & Migration/s: Opening Social and Material Landscapes

University Room: Omid & Gisel Kordestani Rooftop Conference Center (Q-801)
6 rue du Colonel Combes
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:30

One in 30 persons is a migrant today (1). The movement of people, whether forced or voluntary, is a fact that has shaped our world since the onset of humanity. Current climate, economic, humanitarian, political and conflict crises fuel migrations. People leave their homes to save their lives and livelihoods. Yet, migration is increasingly framed and perceived as a threat, a danger mainly to destination countries, currently global Western countries in particular, which forget their colonial pasts and profits, and their own histories of migration.
The global fashion system inherently relies on flows of people, but also materials and skills. While fashion as an industry has effectively been built on successive waves of migration, it has contributed considerably to the environmental crisis that, in turn, has brought forth millions of climate migrants (2). Dress is also an intimate experience for migrants, as they are confronted with the loss of their personal belongings, material scarcity, and trauma.

This research seminar series proposes fashion as a lens to better understand contemporary and historical migration processes, and to consider how fashion mirrors or potentially challenges current political discourses. Fashion & Migration/s opts for a multifaceted approach to explore the entangled connections between these two parameters through experiences, objects, spaces & places, times, skills & techniques. Deliberately transversal, bi-lingual and multidisciplinary, it bridges theory and practice, and brings together academics, designers, curators and artists. As a starting point, Fashion & Migration/s is anchored in material culture, in the affective quality of objects inviting us to visualize, materialize and investigate the lives of people on the move.

Mode & Migration/s : Ouvrir les paysages sociaux et mat矇riels
Une personne sur 30 est aujourd'hui un migrant (1). La circulation des personnes, qu'elle soit forc矇e ou volontaire, a fa癟onn矇 notre monde depuis le d矇but de l'humanit矇. Les crises climatiques, 矇conomiques, humanitaires, politiques et les conflits actuels alimentent les migrations. Les gens quittent leur foyer pour sauver leur vie et leurs moyens de subsistance. Pourtant, la migration est de plus en plus pr矇sent矇e et per癟ue comme une menace - un danger ressenti principalement par les pays d'accueil et plus particuli癡rement aujourd'hui par les pays occidentaux, qui oublient leur pass矇 colonial et leurs profits, ainsi que leur propre histoire migratoire.
Le syst癡me mondial de la mode repose intrins癡quement sur les flux de personnes, mais aussi de mat矇riaux et de comp矇tences. Si la mode en tant qu'industrie s'est effectivement construite sur des vagues successives de migration, elle a aussi consid矇rablement contribu矇 la crise environnementale qui a engendr矇 des millions de migrants climatiques (2). Par ailleurs, l'habillement repr矇sente une exp矇rience intime pour les migrants, qui sont confront矇s labandon et la perte de leurs biens personnels, la p矇nurie mat矇rielle et au traumatisme, lenfouissement de leurs savoir-faire et comp矇tences au profit dun emploi ou dune activit矇 inconnu pour eux leur arriv矇e dans le pays daccueil, la rencontre avec des cultures vestimentaires quils doivent apprendre conna簾tre.

Cette s矇rie de s矇minaires de recherche propose d'utiliser la mode comme un prisme pour mieux comprendre les processus migratoires contemporains et historiques, et d'examiner comment la mode refl癡te ou remet potentiellement en question les discours politiques actuels. Fashion & Migration/s opte pour une approche multiples facettes afin d'explorer les connexions enchev礙tr矇es entre ces deux param癡tres - travers des exp矇riences, des objets, des espaces et des lieux, des 矇poques, des savoir-faire et des techniques. D矇lib矇r矇ment transversal, bilingue et pluridisciplinaire, il jette un pont entre la th矇orie et la pratique et r矇unit des universitaires, des designers, des conservateurs et des artistes. Comme point de d矇part, Fashion & Migration/s est ancr矇 dans la culture mat矇rielle, dans la qualit矇 affective des objets qui nous invitent visualiser, mat矇rialiser et enqu礙ter sur la vie des personnes en mouvement.

(1) https://www.iom.int/about-migration (3.9.2024)
(2) Hiller Connel, Kim Y. & LeHew, Melody L. A. (2022) 'Fashion: An Unrecognized Contribution to Climate Change' in: Marcketti, Sara B. & Karpova, Elena E. (eds.) The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions, London & New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp.71 & https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/62308/how-fast-fashion-fuels-climate-change-plastic-pollution-and-violence/

speakers:
milie Gandon, Mus矇e National de lHistoire de lImmigration
In癡s Mesmar & Anastasia Spravedlyva, La Fabrique Nomade
Zed Zhipeng Gao, The American University of Paris

organisers:
Magali An Berthon, Assistant Professor, Fashion Studies, AUP
Renate Stauss, Associate Professor, Fashion Studies, AUP
Sophie Kurkdjian, Assistant Professor, Fashion Studies, AUP

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