Mode Conversation with Anja Aronowsky CronbergWednesday: Fashion in writing : Vestoj

The Department of Fashion and Accessories Design hosted an online live conversation with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Senior Research Fellow in Fashion Theory and Practice at London College of Fashion and founder of the magazine Vestoj for a Mode Conversation. At its launch, Vestoj filled a gap in the field of fashion studies. The diversity of the content it published invited researchers and designers to take up fashion differently – in short, to write about it more freely. It pledged to bring academia and industry together, "in a bid to combine academic theory, critical thinking and a bit of good old fashioned glamour." Its seven print issues – Material Memories, On fashion and Magic, On Shame, On Fashion and Power, On Slowness, On Failure, On Masculinities, On Authenticity, On Capital – have helped further expand fashion studies’ pluradisciplinary approach to fashion by bringing together fiction, research, interviews and visual essays. Its digital version adds to the magazine’s rich content and offers both renowned fashion journalists and occasional authors, unknown to fashion circles, a space to experiment in which the social, political, cultural and intimate dimensions of clothing interact. The conversation traces Vestoj’s trajectory, discuss Anja’s singular approach to fashion and research, and map the boundaries and possible alliances between practice and theory. Anja Aronowsky Cronberg studied fine art at Central Saint Martins and history of design at the Royal Colle