Space, place and knowledge
The case of temporary showrooms at Paris Fashion Week
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2182010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jana Melkumova-Reynolds (0000-0002-9539-4115, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17530350.2024.2436846 |
| OpenAlex | W4408948847 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
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 knowledge creation.” Progress in Human Geography 28 (1): 31–56] and place-bound, while also global and free-flowing. This study analyses the relationship between fashion knowledge, geographic locations – such as the Marais neighborhood in Paris – and interior spaces – such as seasonal showrooms. Ultimately, it argues that spatial literacies are among the key forms of knowledge deployed by fashion wholesale professionals in their work: firstly, they need an intimate familiarity with the ever-shifting geographies of Paris fashion clusters; secondly, they must possess an aesthetic skill set that can enable them to quickly assemble particular atmospheres in temporary locations. Finally, by analysing the heterotopic [Foucault, Michel. 1984. Des Espaces Autres. Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité, 5: 46–49], neither-public-nor-private nature of fashion showrooms, this study considers how fashion week events exclude local residents, thus rearticulating the symbolic boundaries around the field of fashion
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Atmospheric Architectures
Pricing Beauty
The field of cultural production
Non-Representational Theory
(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion
Mobile Lives and Materialities
Trade Shows in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy
Atmospheres and the Experiential World
Reassembling the Social
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Modeling Consumption
Fields of Fashion
The romance of work
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Placing fashion
Clusters and knowledge
Affective atmospheres
Encountering Affect
Buzz-and-Pipeline Dynamics
Fashion as viscous knowledge
The Short, Passionate, and Close-Knit History of Personal Style Blogs
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Contribution to the Critique of the Aesthetic Economy
Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics
Neo-Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks
Le couturier et sa griffe
Having it All' on Social Media
Access
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Fashion
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |