Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 349322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana Melkumova-Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana |
| FAMILY NAME | Melkumova-Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | MELKUMOVA-REYNOLDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9539-4115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Space, place and knowledge: The case of temporary showrooms at Paris Fashion Week
This article discusses the role of space and place in the production and dissemination of fashion knowledge. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography carried out at Paris Fashion Week events in 2017–2018 and in-depth interviews with thirteen wholesale fashion agents, it presents fashion knowledge as at once ‘sticky’ [Bathelt, Harald, Anders Malmberg, and Peter Maskell. 2004. “Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of kno…
On the cusp of something huge: Anticipatory subjectivities in freelance fashion work
This article draws on an (auto)ethnographic study of a group of freelance fashion professionals, known as 'fashion agents', with a particular focus on their relationship to time. It aims to elucidate the temporalities that permeate their work lives and shape their subjectivities, which I coin as anticipatory subjectivities. Such subjectivities, I posit, are emblematic of the conditions of flexibilisation, precarity and hopeful investment in the f…
My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”: Fashioning the ProsthetisedBody
Fashion and prosthetics may appear at first glance to be unlikely bedfellows. Yet a tiny number of pioneering fashion scholars have begun to extend the concept of adornment beyond recognized forms of dress and examine items that were hitherto perceived as belonging to the medical domain. This article embraces a similar outlook and expands upon the currently available research. It considers how the amputee body is incorporated into the visual main…
My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”: Fashioning the ProsthetisedBody
Fashion and prosthetics may appear at first glance to be unlikely bedfellows. Yet a tiny number of pioneering fashion scholars have begun to extend the concept of adornment beyond recognized forms of dress and examine items that were hitherto perceived as belonging to the medical domain. This article embraces a similar outlook and expands upon the currently available research. It considers how the amputee body is incorporated into the visual main…
My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel”: Fashioning the ProsthetisedBody
Fashion and prosthetics may appear at first glance to be unlikely bedfellows. Yet a tiny number of pioneering fashion scholars have begun to extend the concept of adornment beyond recognized forms of dress and examine items that were hitherto perceived as belonging to the medical domain. This article embraces a similar outlook and expands upon the currently available research. It considers how the amputee body is incorporated into the visual main…
On the cusp of something huge: Anticipatory subjectivities in freelance fashion work
This article draws on an (auto)ethnographic study of a group of freelance fashion professionals, known as 'fashion agents', with a particular focus on their relationship to time. It aims to elucidate the temporalities that permeate their work lives and shape their subjectivities, which I coin as anticipatory subjectivities. Such subjectivities, I posit, are emblematic of the conditions of flexibilisation, precarity and hopeful investment in the f…
Space, place and knowledge: The case of temporary showrooms at Paris Fashion Week
This article discusses the role of space and place in the production and dissemination of fashion knowledge. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography carried out at Paris Fashion Week events in 2017–2018 and in-depth interviews with thirteen wholesale fashion agents, it presents fashion knowledge as at once ‘sticky’ [Bathelt, Harald, Anders Malmberg, and Peter Maskell. 2004. “Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of kno…
Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adornment (1 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Boundary-work (1 works)