Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s Theory of The Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), this essay examines the reception of fashion collective Vetements through the lens of the gimmick, discussing the label’s…
As both the dominant mode of self-realisation and a tool for creating wealth in the capitalist world, work is constantly being redefined. Our relationship to it has been affected by automation, the…
Giulia Mensitieri conducted a field survey on the working conditions in fashion, demonstrating how the image of luxury masks and justifies the precarious reality of workers. In this in-depth interview, Aude Fellay…
Louise Jarrige-Le Berre shows what is radical in tenderness – from the violence of a tenderness that is denied, to the tenderness of a protecting friendship, to that of a garment that…
Yves Corminboeuf is a pioneer of sustainable design in Switzerland. A lecturer and delegate for sustainability at HEAD, he helps numerous organisations to take into account the ecological issues specific to their…
In addition to being one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion subjects its workers to some of the most degrading working conditions. In the face of these abuses, consumer mobilisation remains…
How can art and design practice be combined with ecological issues? Does production necessarily imply a form of destruction? What forms might a turn towards deproduction take? This feature considers these issues…
In the spring of 2021, the Fashion Department invited Anja Aronowsky Cronberg to talk to students about her experience as the editor of the magazine Vestoj. Cronberg was a pioneer in developing…
The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…
Historically, the clothing industry has often been in the vanguard of great economic rationalisation movements. It was one of the first industries to be industrialised in the 19th century, and in the…