From Design Nations to Fashion Nations? Unpacking Contemporary Scandinavian Fashion Dreams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12588165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Riegels Melchior (0000-0002-2960-6941, Marie Riegels Melchior is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Ethnology, University of Copenhagen, and Research Fellow at The Danish Museum of Art & Design. In 2008 she did her PhD on Danish fashion in the period 1950–2008. Currently she is engaged in a study of fashion in museums., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-200 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fashion Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/175174111x12954359478681 |
| OpenAlex | W1984717155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 6 |
To many people, the link between Scandinavia and design is still a familiar story of functionalism and the social democratic welfare states of the twentieth century. But until recently the Scandinavian countries—Denmark, Norway, and Sweden—had not sought to connect themselves with fashion design. This, however, has changed since the turn of the millennium. Present-day government institutions, industry organizations, fashion media, and industry form partnerships that not only give the fashion industry a prominent status in deindustrialized economies, but also potentially change the image of the nations. In this article I unfold what I term the fashion dreams of the Scandinavian countries in order to examine what their experiences tell us—on one hand, the role of fashion for the nation, and on the other hand, the contribution of national governments to the polycentrism of the fashion world
Democracy · Economics · Economy · Fashion design · Fashion industry · Functionalism (philosophy of mind · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unpacking · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.73 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |