Fashion Remains

<p>Fashion ephemera-from catalogues and invitations to press releases-have long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. <i>Fashion Remains</i> redresses the balance putting these objects centre stage and focusing on the wider creative practice of contemporary fashion designers photographers graphic designers make-up artists and many more. Fashion ephemera are considered not as disposable promotional devices but as windows into hidden networks of collaboration and value creation in the fashion system. <p/>Taking an interdisciplinary approach <i>Fashion Remains</i> explores the unseen and privately circulated fashion ephemera produced by today's most prominent international fashion designers such as Margiela Yamamoto and Raf Simons. Showcasing a unique archive of materials it focuses on Antwerp's avant-garde fashion scene and reveals the potential of these ephemeral objects to evoke and call into question material and immaterial knowledge about the fashion industry's actors practices and ideologies.</p>