The Culture(s) de Mode magazine is now published!

"Create/ Teach/ Exhibit/ Inform/ (Re)search/ Analyze/ Read", these are the fields of fashion that the brand new journal Culture(s) de Mode intends to explore! The publication brings together the reflections and analyses of researchers, designers, curators and museum professionals, photographers and journalists... It is deliberately interdisciplinary in its thinking and, like the Culture(s) de Mode network, is intended to be a space for exchanges, encounters and the hybridization of ideas, placing itself in the interstice between industry and the university. It is conceived as a toolbox for everyone, from which we invite you to freely pick and choose.

For its very first issue, made possible by the BIC within the Ministry of Culture, the network of researchers and experts examines the consequences of the pandemic on the various fields of fashion. From page 27 to page 29, an article highlights the missions of Margaux Brisson and Caroline Chenu, our communication officers, and Sylvie Roy, our archives and documentary collections manager.

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> About Culture(s) de Mode 

Created in 2017, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Culture(s) de Mode is a network bringing together for the first time all the researchers, professionals and enthusiasts who work on fashion in France. With the support of the Ministry of Culture, it aims to promote, support and encourage all initiatives on fashion research in France. Culture(s) de Mode understands "fashion research" in the broad sense of anyone who analyses, deciphers, writes, preserves, restores, and makes fashion. Thus, Culture(s) de Mode addresses students, professors, researchers, museum curators, archivists, designers, engineers, theorists, practitioners, philosophers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, writers, journalists and the curious... "Fashion" is also understood in the broadest sense and encompasses clothing, accessories, textiles, appearances, and the practices associated with clothing.

Culture(s) de Mode aims to support research through various tools. The website, culturesdemode.com, makes all research initiatives visible. It already publishes an agenda indicating conferences, symposiums, study days, calls for applications, exhibitions and books related to fashion cultures in France; a bibliography of works on fashion published in France; a chronology and podcasts. Soon, it will unveil an interactive map listing over 100 public and private institutions in France with fashion and textile collections.

Culture(s) de Mode offers practical tools to researchers to enable them to produce more knowledge: grants for the translation of articles into foreign languages and for mobility abroad; training workshops on research tools; networking events... Culture(s) de Mode is setting up a series of workshops reserved for members: workshops to discover museum archives, meetings with professionals, themed conferences...

From the report on fashion heritage written by Olivier Saillard and Sylvie Roy in 2017 to its cartography, the Culture(s) de Mode team is constantly motivated to promote the textile and clothing wealth of the French territory. Available on the Culture(s) de Mode website, the map already includes 40 institutions. It will be updated in the coming months. 

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→ And to visit the Culture(s) de Mode website, go here: www.culturesdemode.com