Aurélie Van De Peer
Biographic Data
| ID | 202705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurélie Van De Peer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurélie |
| FAMILY NAME | Van De Peer |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DE PEER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9821-9702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dry and undressed
We address the five interlocutors of our article ‘Sociology of fashion: What would Luhmann say?’ in a deliberately dry manner. Their perceptive remarks concern both the limitations of our expanded systems-theoretical approach and the rich potential it offers for future conceptual and empirical exploration. While reiterating the partial incommensurability between a systems-theoretical perspective on fashion and the premises underlying several resp…
Sociology of fashion
Fashion is often linked to fleeting trends and seasonal clothing changes, leading to its dismissal as socially insignificant. However, we argue that sociology must recognize the ‘in/out' difference as a key temporal dynamic shaping the functioning of various societal subsystems. We illustrate fashion's influence in three areas: the social sciences and humanities, the visual arts, and the clothing economy, emphasizing its varying degrees of impact…
First notes on the relevance of resonance theory for fashion studies
This essay explores the relevance of resonance theory for fashion studies, challenging dominant interpretations of fashion consumption as competitive, status-driven and individualistic. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance as a counterpoint to alienating dressed experiences, the essay critiques current discourses that link sustainable fashion to moralizing individualistic discourses focused on personal responsibility, often overlooking t…
Second-hand clothes, first-hand mindset
The study explores motivations for second-hand clothing practices using wardrobe interviews with a limited sample of twelve higher-education students in Belgium. Three types of practices were identified: bargain hunters, uniqueness searchers and ethical and ecological buyers. The study reveals that despite the perceived sustainability of second-hand clothes, these practices often result in large volumes of clothing purchases, contradicting sustai…
Fighters, thinkers and bees
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Long live the (im)material
This article seeks to challenge the way in which journalistic and academic discourses on the conceptual fashion of Dutch designers Viktor&Rolf privilege ideas over the materiality of fashion. Whereas Viktor&Rolf have been considered predominantly as late-twentieth-century conceptual designers, we aim to offer an alternative reading of Viktor&Rolf’s fashion practices. Through a detailed visual analysis of renowned Viktor&Rolf collections, Russian …
Ghost-busting fashion
This article examines the rhetorical tools that leading fashion journalists have used over the past 60 years when they seek to protect the idea of impenetrable temporal boundaries between contemporary fashionable dress and its history. Journalists have always taken a dim view of fashion practices that recycle historical styles in contemporary fashion design. Yet in the late 20th century they intensified this repudiation by the previously unseen u…
So Last Season
Fashion is a powerful cultural phenomenon in its ability to impose on fashion items, its wearers, and producers a quality of forwardness or backwardness. As a temporal designation, both scholars and industry professionals tend to regard fashion as rooted in the present. Yet hitherto academic debate has not sufficiently scrutinized the fashion present and its boundaries. The idea of being up to date necessitates a relational temporal order in whic…
Re-artification in a World of De-artification
Through a grounded theory analysis of 1301 collection reviews from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, issued between 1949 and 2010, the article discusses the shift in the themes that journalists employ to make sense of the latest collections. Contemporary journalists pay far less attention to the materiality of fashion than their earlier colleagues did. In the late 20th century they construed designer fashion as an intellect…
Exhibition Review
(2011). Exhibition Review: Delvaux: 180 Years of Belgian Luxury. Fashion Theory: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 509-516
Re-artification in a World of De-artification
Through a grounded theory analysis of 1301 collection reviews from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, issued between 1949 and 2010, the article discusses the shift in the themes that journalists employ to make sense of the latest collections. Contemporary journalists pay far less attention to the materiality of fashion than their earlier colleagues did. In the late 20th century they construed designer fashion as an intellect…
Ghost-busting fashion
This article examines the rhetorical tools that leading fashion journalists have used over the past 60 years when they seek to protect the idea of impenetrable temporal boundaries between contemporary fashionable dress and its history. Journalists have always taken a dim view of fashion practices that recycle historical styles in contemporary fashion design. Yet in the late 20th century they intensified this repudiation by the previously unseen u…
So Last Season
Fashion is a powerful cultural phenomenon in its ability to impose on fashion items, its wearers, and producers a quality of forwardness or backwardness. As a temporal designation, both scholars and industry professionals tend to regard fashion as rooted in the present. Yet hitherto academic debate has not sufficiently scrutinized the fashion present and its boundaries. The idea of being up to date necessitates a relational temporal order in whic…
Fighters, thinkers and bees
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Long live the (im)material
This article seeks to challenge the way in which journalistic and academic discourses on the conceptual fashion of Dutch designers Viktor&Rolf privilege ideas over the materiality of fashion. Whereas Viktor&Rolf have been considered predominantly as late-twentieth-century conceptual designers, we aim to offer an alternative reading of Viktor&Rolf’s fashion practices. Through a detailed visual analysis of renowned Viktor&Rolf collections, Russian …
Exhibition Review
(2011). Exhibition Review: Delvaux: 180 Years of Belgian Luxury. Fashion Theory: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 509-516
Ghost-busting fashion
This article examines the rhetorical tools that leading fashion journalists have used over the past 60 years when they seek to protect the idea of impenetrable temporal boundaries between contemporary fashionable dress and its history. Journalists have always taken a dim view of fashion practices that recycle historical styles in contemporary fashion design. Yet in the late 20th century they intensified this repudiation by the previously unseen u…
So Last Season
Fashion is a powerful cultural phenomenon in its ability to impose on fashion items, its wearers, and producers a quality of forwardness or backwardness. As a temporal designation, both scholars and industry professionals tend to regard fashion as rooted in the present. Yet hitherto academic debate has not sufficiently scrutinized the fashion present and its boundaries. The idea of being up to date necessitates a relational temporal order in whic…
Re-artification in a World of De-artification
Through a grounded theory analysis of 1301 collection reviews from The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, issued between 1949 and 2010, the article discusses the shift in the themes that journalists employ to make sense of the latest collections. Contemporary journalists pay far less attention to the materiality of fashion than their earlier colleagues did. In the late 20th century they construed designer fashion as an intellect…
Long live the (im)material
This article seeks to challenge the way in which journalistic and academic discourses on the conceptual fashion of Dutch designers Viktor&Rolf privilege ideas over the materiality of fashion. Whereas Viktor&Rolf have been considered predominantly as late-twentieth-century conceptual designers, we aim to offer an alternative reading of Viktor&Rolf’s fashion practices. Through a detailed visual analysis of renowned Viktor&Rolf collections, Russian …
Second-hand clothes, first-hand mindset
The study explores motivations for second-hand clothing practices using wardrobe interviews with a limited sample of twelve higher-education students in Belgium. Three types of practices were identified: bargain hunters, uniqueness searchers and ethical and ecological buyers. The study reveals that despite the perceived sustainability of second-hand clothes, these practices often result in large volumes of clothing purchases, contradicting sustai…
Fighters, thinkers and bees
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Dry and undressed
We address the five interlocutors of our article ‘Sociology of fashion: What would Luhmann say?’ in a deliberately dry manner. Their perceptive remarks concern both the limitations of our expanded systems-theoretical approach and the rich potential it offers for future conceptual and empirical exploration. While reiterating the partial incommensurability between a systems-theoretical perspective on fashion and the premises underlying several resp…
Sociology of fashion
Fashion is often linked to fleeting trends and seasonal clothing changes, leading to its dismissal as socially insignificant. However, we argue that sociology must recognize the ‘in/out' difference as a key temporal dynamic shaping the functioning of various societal subsystems. We illustrate fashion's influence in three areas: the social sciences and humanities, the visual arts, and the clothing economy, emphasizing its varying degrees of impact…
First notes on the relevance of resonance theory for fashion studies
This essay explores the relevance of resonance theory for fashion studies, challenging dominant interpretations of fashion consumption as competitive, status-driven and individualistic. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance as a counterpoint to alienating dressed experiences, the essay critiques current discourses that link sustainable fashion to moralizing individualistic discourses focused on personal responsibility, often overlooking t…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (8 works) · Clothing (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)