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Issue 49:

Dossier 49

Fashion and philosophy: between production and thought

Organizers:

Larissa Almada - Senac-SP
Guido Conrado - Senac-RJ

Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2026

Publication due to April or August 2027

Dressing, creating, developing, and marketing fashion are poetic acts of social production. We use the term poetic because both poetry and production share the same Greek root - poiesis - and with that, we aim to highlight that producing fashion cannot be reduced to the material making of clothes and accessories. Here, fashion is also understood as a mechanism for producing subjectivity, an expanded field for understanding the ways of living and organizing society.

Historically, many thinkers from the field of philosophy have reflected on the complexity of fashion as a phenomenon, considering its ethical, aesthetic, and political implications. For this reason, it is increasingly common for researchers in fashion to draw from philosophical authors to deepen their analyses of the practices of creation, production, and circulation of these wearable forms and artifacts.

This dossier seeks to provide an explicit space for dialogue and intersections between the fields of fashion and philosophy. It aims to share not only evidence of fashion’s contributions to philosophical reflection, through reviews or critical commentaries on thinkers who have addressed the subject, but also philosophy’s contributions to fashion studies, through fashion works that use philosophical concepts as productive material and through original philosophical reflections that find in fashion production and consumption a fertile ground for thought.

The main objective of this dossier is to offer a space for visibility and academic debate about the undisciplined relationships between fashion and philosophy. We wish to foster interdisciplinary or non-disciplinary dialogues, bringing together contributions that explore fashion as an object of philosophical reflection and that use philosophical thought as a tool for critical analysis of fashion. We also aim to promote intersections among aesthetic, ethical, and political perspectives, considering fashion within the contexts of its symbolic and material production.

In doing so, we intend not only to enrich the field of fashion studies but also to demonstrate its relevance and thematic strength for philosophy’s effort to understand contemporary social phenomena.

Proposed Structure

To encompass the diversity of approaches that the intersection between fashion and philosophy allows, this dossier welcomes works in different formats, open to the submission of:

Translations: We will accept unpublished translations into Portuguese of philosophical texts, classical or contemporary, that directly address themes such as fashion in productive and symbolic contexts.

Reviews: We welcome critical reviews of philosophical works, newly released or historically significant, that discuss fashion and its social and cultural implications. Philosophical Reflections: We encourage the submission of essays and original articles presenting philosophical reflections on fashion, its modes of production, and its regimes of thought.

Interdisciplinary Contributions: We also welcome articles and analyses from the field of fashion that use consistent philosophical frameworks to reflect on issues related to creation, production, circulation, consumption, and the symbolic and material representation of fashion and clothing.

interviews: We would also be pleased to receive interviews whose themes adhere to the subject of this dossier.

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Issue 48:

Dossier dObra[s] 48 

History of Fashion and Costume: Dresses, Images and Representations of the Past

 Organizers:

Paulo Debom – Senai Cetiqt / Escola de Artes Celso Lisboa
Camila Borges – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026

Publication due to December 2026 and/or April 2027

Dress has long been recognized as one of the most significant expressions of social life. Beyond its aesthetic dimension, it functions as both a historical document and a cultural practice, offering insights into power relations, economic transformations, shifts in social interactions, and the construction of collective and individual identities.

In recent decades, however, the history of fashion and dress has changed beyond its status as merely an object of study, consolidating itself as an autonomous field of research with its own categories, specialized theoretical debates, and extensive dialogue with other areas of knowledge. Investigating the culture of appearances, therefore, entails not only analyzing it as a reflection of a given period but also recognizing it as a space for knowledge production and critical interpretation of history and culture.

The dossier History of Fashion and Dress: Garments, Images, and Representations of the Past aims to gather articles based on research anchored in primary sources and historical documents, grounded in the methodological rigor characteristic of historical inquiry. It seeks to embrace the multiplicity of perspectives that shape historical writing, including:

  • Cultural History: analysis of representations, practices, and circulation of symbols, including their manifestations and experiences in the realm of digital culture;
  • Political History: relations between power, the state, and dress;
  • Economic History: production, circulation, and trade of textiles, clothing, and adornments;
  • Social History: modes of life, class distinctions, and collective experiences;
  • History of Labor: trades, working conditions, and transformations in the garment industry;
  • History of Women and Gender: dress as a practice of identity construction and negotiation;
  • Material and Cultural History: study of objects, artifacts, and vestiges of dress in their social and historical dimensions;
  • Visual and Cultural History: analysis of images, representations, and visual practices connected to the culture of appearances, including interfaces with audiovisual experiences and cinematic, television, and digital media;
  • Oral History: individual and collective narratives expressing memories, sensory experiences, and living experiences of dress;
  • History and History Education: use of fashion and dress as pedagogical resources to understand historical processes and foster innovative teaching practices;
  • History and Social Sciences: interdisciplinary dialogues between fashion, anthropology, sociology, and political science.

By articulating different historiographical traditions and approaches, the dossier seeks to encourage dialogue among scholars across diverse fields, recognizing the history of fashion and dress as an inherently interdisciplinary domain. It opens space for approaches that traverse cultural, political, economic, and social histories, including insights from social sciences, philosophy, art, design, and communication. Nevertheless, all submissions must be grounded in historical research, ensuring the methodological rigor and analytical consistency that support robust academic reflection.

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