Harriette Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 168274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriette Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriette |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6557-5495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Looking More Like Ghosts Than Women
Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is one of the most theorized fashion designers of our time. So, why was a new collection of essays on her work necessary? This was the question I asked myself as I began Rex Butler’s edited volume, Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion. It was in Butler’s own chapter, “Rei Kawakubo: Fashion Degree Zero,” that I found my answer. He writes, “There is something about the clothes themselves that appears difficult to talk about or to refu…
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion
The introduction of the Australian Modern Slavery Act in 2018 has important implications for the fashion sector and the supply chains that it furnishes. However, it also introduces an added layer of complexity to the already crowded space of ethical fashion information. This article investigates how fashion consumers navigate the increasingly complex landscape of ethical fashion against the backdrop of new legislation and alongside the moral impe…
Fashion on air
In recent years, there has been a growing number of podcasts that discuss fashion. While many of these podcasts function as marketing or loyalty-building mechanisms, there is also a category of podcasts that approach fashion critically, offering new perspectives on the global fashion system. This article explores podcasting as a form of popular media communication and a powerful tool through which to translate fashion studies research for general…
Disruption, interrupted
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurship such as Bardinelli (2019), Irani (2019) and Lindtner (2020), the article offers a nuanced view of disruption that complicates unidimensional narratives of financialization as a singular force and …
Janet Frame's Autobiographical Frock Consciousness
This article investigates New Zealand author Janet Frame’s relationship to clothes in the three volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table and Envoy from Mirror City. It uses the concept of ‘frock consciousness’ – conceived by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as an idea through which to explore one of the many states of consciousness a person may inhabit – as a tool through which to unpack how Frame fashioned her life through writin…
Fashion in ‘crisis’
The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated an ‘existential crisis’ in the global fashion industry. The effects of the crisis on the retail sector resulted in many brands deferring or cancelling orders from supplier factories without paying workers, which had an instant and calamitous impact on the lives of garment workers in the global South. While activist organizations were quick to launch campaigns demanding that fashion brands #PayUp and take respons…
Industry dialogue
This industry dialogue, facilitated by Harriette Richards, co-founder of the Critical Fashion Studies research group at the University of Melbourne, is an edited version of an industry panel discussion that took place during the International Critical Fashion Studies conference at the University of Melbourne in February 2020. The panellists, Yatu Widders Hunt, Courtney Holm and Teslin Doud, were asked to reflect on how they approach cultural and …
Rethinking value
For fashion, which is connected so intimately to our bodies, senses, emotions, and memories, value is more than a matter of cost. In order to illustrate the true value of fashion ‘radical transparency’ is framed as a tool through which brands can counter supply chain opacity and tell stories about the production of their garments. However, models of transparency often conceal more than they reveal. This article unpacks the concept of ‘radical tra…
Fashioning founders
This article considers how entrepreneurs' fashion themselves as founders. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Australia, we discuss whether the informal dress codes of the startup world neutralize gender differences. Our findings suggest that informal dress codes reinforce the normative positionality of men as archetypal entrepreneurial actors. They reinscribe gendered hierarchies that affect the everyday entrepreneurial experience, and e…
Practicing Life Worlds
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of 'messy' practical experience is difficult to reconcile with their expectations and anxieties about the future. Students who embrace the 'customer' education approach expect their learning to be packaged in a manner that prac…
Exhibition Review
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 May–4 September 2017
Dreaded culture
In Subculture: The Meaning of Style ([1979] 1988), Dick Hebdige noted that ‘somewhere between Trenchtown and Ladbroke Grove the cult of Rastafari had become a “style”: an expressive combination of “locks,” of khaki camouflage and “weed”’. For cultures of resistance such as Rastafari, aesthetic determinants are more than simple visually identifying features. Rather, these elements are the foundation of unity, a shared aesthetic that points to a sh…
Georgia O’Keeffe
It would seem that the long-running debate as to the place of fashion in the museum is no longer relevant. Given the success of recent high-profile fashion exhibitions showcasing the work of design
Rethinking value
For fashion, which is connected so intimately to our bodies, senses, emotions, and memories, value is more than a matter of cost. In order to illustrate the true value of fashion ‘radical transparency’ is framed as a tool through which brands can counter supply chain opacity and tell stories about the production of their garments. However, models of transparency often conceal more than they reveal. This article unpacks the concept of ‘radical tra…
Disruption, interrupted
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurship such as Bardinelli (2019), Irani (2019) and Lindtner (2020), the article offers a nuanced view of disruption that complicates unidimensional narratives of financialization as a singular force and …
Janet Frame's Autobiographical Frock Consciousness
This article investigates New Zealand author Janet Frame’s relationship to clothes in the three volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table and Envoy from Mirror City. It uses the concept of ‘frock consciousness’ – conceived by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as an idea through which to explore one of the many states of consciousness a person may inhabit – as a tool through which to unpack how Frame fashioned her life through writin…
Industry dialogue
This industry dialogue, facilitated by Harriette Richards, co-founder of the Critical Fashion Studies research group at the University of Melbourne, is an edited version of an industry panel discussion that took place during the International Critical Fashion Studies conference at the University of Melbourne in February 2020. The panellists, Yatu Widders Hunt, Courtney Holm and Teslin Doud, were asked to reflect on how they approach cultural and …
Fashioning founders
This article considers how entrepreneurs' fashion themselves as founders. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Australia, we discuss whether the informal dress codes of the startup world neutralize gender differences. Our findings suggest that informal dress codes reinforce the normative positionality of men as archetypal entrepreneurial actors. They reinscribe gendered hierarchies that affect the everyday entrepreneurial experience, and e…
Practicing Life Worlds
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of 'messy' practical experience is difficult to reconcile with their expectations and anxieties about the future. Students who embrace the 'customer' education approach expect their learning to be packaged in a manner that prac…
Dreaded culture
In Subculture: The Meaning of Style ([1979] 1988), Dick Hebdige noted that ‘somewhere between Trenchtown and Ladbroke Grove the cult of Rastafari had become a “style”: an expressive combination of “locks,” of khaki camouflage and “weed”’. For cultures of resistance such as Rastafari, aesthetic determinants are more than simple visually identifying features. Rather, these elements are the foundation of unity, a shared aesthetic that points to a sh…
Georgia O’Keeffe
It would seem that the long-running debate as to the place of fashion in the museum is no longer relevant. Given the success of recent high-profile fashion exhibitions showcasing the work of design
Exhibition Review
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 May–4 September 2017
Practicing Life Worlds
In the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of 'messy' practical experience is difficult to reconcile with their expectations and anxieties about the future. Students who embrace the 'customer' education approach expect their learning to be packaged in a manner that prac…
Fashion in ‘crisis’
The Covid-19 pandemic precipitated an ‘existential crisis’ in the global fashion industry. The effects of the crisis on the retail sector resulted in many brands deferring or cancelling orders from supplier factories without paying workers, which had an instant and calamitous impact on the lives of garment workers in the global South. While activist organizations were quick to launch campaigns demanding that fashion brands #PayUp and take respons…
Industry dialogue
This industry dialogue, facilitated by Harriette Richards, co-founder of the Critical Fashion Studies research group at the University of Melbourne, is an edited version of an industry panel discussion that took place during the International Critical Fashion Studies conference at the University of Melbourne in February 2020. The panellists, Yatu Widders Hunt, Courtney Holm and Teslin Doud, were asked to reflect on how they approach cultural and …
Rethinking value
For fashion, which is connected so intimately to our bodies, senses, emotions, and memories, value is more than a matter of cost. In order to illustrate the true value of fashion ‘radical transparency’ is framed as a tool through which brands can counter supply chain opacity and tell stories about the production of their garments. However, models of transparency often conceal more than they reveal. This article unpacks the concept of ‘radical tra…
Fashioning founders
This article considers how entrepreneurs' fashion themselves as founders. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Australia, we discuss whether the informal dress codes of the startup world neutralize gender differences. Our findings suggest that informal dress codes reinforce the normative positionality of men as archetypal entrepreneurial actors. They reinscribe gendered hierarchies that affect the everyday entrepreneurial experience, and e…
Janet Frame's Autobiographical Frock Consciousness
This article investigates New Zealand author Janet Frame’s relationship to clothes in the three volumes of her autobiography, To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table and Envoy from Mirror City. It uses the concept of ‘frock consciousness’ – conceived by Virginia Woolf in 1925 as an idea through which to explore one of the many states of consciousness a person may inhabit – as a tool through which to unpack how Frame fashioned her life through writin…
Disruption, interrupted
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurship such as Bardinelli (2019), Irani (2019) and Lindtner (2020), the article offers a nuanced view of disruption that complicates unidimensional narratives of financialization as a singular force and …
Rei Kawakubo
Rei Kawakubo is one of the most theorized fashion designers of our time. So, why was a new collection of essays on her work necessary? This was the question I asked myself as I began Rex Butler’s edited volume, Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion. It was in Butler’s own chapter, “Rei Kawakubo: Fashion Degree Zero,” that I found my answer. He writes, “There is something about the clothes themselves that appears difficult to talk about or to refu…
Modern slavery legislation and the limits of ethical fashion
The introduction of the Australian Modern Slavery Act in 2018 has important implications for the fashion sector and the supply chains that it furnishes. However, it also introduces an added layer of complexity to the already crowded space of ethical fashion information. This article investigates how fashion consumers navigate the increasingly complex landscape of ethical fashion against the backdrop of new legislation and alongside the moral impe…
Fashion on air
In recent years, there has been a growing number of podcasts that discuss fashion. While many of these podcasts function as marketing or loyalty-building mechanisms, there is also a category of podcasts that approach fashion critically, offering new perspectives on the global fashion system. This article explores podcasting as a form of popular media communication and a powerful tool through which to translate fashion studies research for general…
Looking More Like Ghosts Than Women
Sociology (9 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (8 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)