Imagining a Future of Sonic Fashion
Vidmina Stasiulyte
2017 (English), In: Utopian studies, ISSN 1045-991X, E-ISSN 2154-9648, Vol. 28, no 3, Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
Although sound, touch, and smell are elements of clothing, the visual sense is predominant in fashion and fashion education, and fashion is essentially understood as a system of visual components. As an alternative to this dominant focus on visuality, fashion could be explored as a sound based interaction between body and dress.This artistic statement invites readers to rethink fashion as a visual culture and opens up a nonvisual perspective on fashion design aesthetics in regards to a sonic identity. The Soundtopia—a scenario of five possibilities for future sonic fashion and behavior—is presented as a new direction for alternative forms of design thinking through sound.