Since 2015, we have met in Paris to talk about clothes and fashion. From the indispensable chaos of our conversations emerge stories, ideas, propositions, and dreams—many of which will stay unrealized, abandoned in the fitting room of our projects.
From this unstable body of intuitions, desires, and opportunities, also emerges the focus of the annual issue of Modes Pratiques: its theme. “Norms and Transgressions” was the theme of the first issue (out of print and soon in digital version). “Without Fashion,” the theme of the second one. This special issue features a selection of papers from the first two issues-- now translated into English--as well as several new papers, interviews, and portfolios.
Who will you meet in this special issue? An artist who scans clothes; gentlewomen and gentlemen who are forbidden from displaying their own superfluity; ballroom queens; perfect men and average men; workers in overalls; a magician of fancy dress; French suburban Voguers voguing; air hostesses and stewards and their uniforms; elegant men without style; women who fought fashion’s excesses; timeless Amish; veiled women of the French Revolution; Chinese men and women who burn the clothes for their ancestors; a funk adept from Niger turned Islamic prophet; window mannequins; Kanaks in manous; Sioux on a reservation; nudists in Bavaria; a hippy librarian in San Francisco; multi-generational feminists; hipster farmers in the south of France; wild boys in Morocco; Parisian girls under the Occupation; lexicographers…
450 pages, 450 illustrations, €30
You can order the Special issue in English below ("Acheter" powered by Paypal)
Your issue will arrive by train or by boat (that is how we get the price to stay low). Travel could take up to 20 days. If you have any questions, you can email us at: manuel.charpy@wanadoo.fr
Since 2015, we have met in Paris to talk about clothes and fashion. From the indispensable chaos of our conversations emerge stories, ideas, propositions, and dreams—many of which will stay unrealized, abandoned in the fitting room of our projects.
From this unstable body of intuitions, desires, and opportunities, also emerges the focus of the annual issue of Modes Pratiques: its theme. “Norms and Transgressions” was the theme of the first issue (out of print and soon in digital version). “Without Fashion,” the theme of the second one. This special issue features a selection of papers from the first two issues-- now translated into English--as well as several new papers, interviews, and portfolios.
Who will you meet in this special issue? An artist who scans clothes; gentlewomen and gentlemen who are forbidden from displaying their own superfluity; ballroom queens; perfect men and average men; workers in overalls; a magician of fancy dress; French suburban Voguers voguing; air hostesses and stewards and their uniforms; elegant men without style; women who fought fashion’s excesses; timeless Amish; veiled women of the French Revolution; Chinese men and women who burn the clothes for their ancestors; a funk adept from Niger turned Islamic prophet; window mannequins; Kanaks in manous; Sioux on a reservation; nudists in Bavaria; a hippy librarian in San Francisco; multi-generational feminists; hipster farmers in the south of France; wild boys in Morocco; Parisian girls under the Occupation; lexicographers…
450 pages, 450 illustrations, €30
You can order the Special issue in English below ("Acheter" powered by Paypal)
Your issue will arrive by train or by boat (that is how we get the price to stay low). Travel could take up to 20 days. If you have any questions, you can email us at: manuel.charpy@wanadoo.fr