The fashion blog as genre: Between user- driven bricolage design and the reproduction of established fashion system

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    Abstract

    Fashion as a phenomenon cannot be understood indepen- dently of the visual images and designed presentations that convey the content and forms of fashion. With the breakthrough of the digital media in the 2000s we were introduced to new ways of communicating and staging fashion where the blog in particular has established a new media culture for the distribution and exchange of potential fashion-based self-presentation forms and resulted in new design strategies. In this article, the fashion blog is presented as a specific genre that is charac- terised by remediating existing genre forms and combin- ing them into new formats, where amateur bricolage approaches are combined with the reproduction of fam- iliar features from the established fashion media. The article presents four types of fashion blogs, each represent- ing a specific design strategy for presenting and interact- ing with fashion content. In closing, it is argued that the fashion blog as a phenomenon, on the one hand, has placed the ordinary fashion consumer centre stage as a producer of fashion content while also, on the other hand, helping to consolidate established hierarchical and communicative structures in the fashion system.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Artikelnummer2013
    TidsskriftDigital Creativity
    Vol/bindpublished online
    Udgave nummer2013
    Sider (fra-til)1-15
    Antal sider16
    ISSN1462-6268
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 10 sep. 2013

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    • fashion blogging
    • web 2
    • remediation
    • fashion representation
    • documentary real-life street photo
    • self-presentation

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