11.05.2022
Radical acts of love
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…
Category : Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory
Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
09.05.2022
ISSUE#12 – De/production without cons/des/truction
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…
05.10.2021
Fashion studies
Conversation with researcher and Vestoj magazine founder Anja Aronowsky Cronberg
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…
Cinema, BA in Cinema, Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Product Design/Jewellery and Accessory, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication
05.03.2021
ISSUE #6 – Talking Words
Creative writing practices at HEAD – Genève
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…
01.09.2020
La maille anticapitaliste
Interview de Valentine Ebner, responsable du projet KnitGeekResearch
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…
Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, MA in Fashion and Accessory Design, Visual communication, MA in Media Design, Space design, MA in Space and communication, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices
23.06.2020
ISSUE #5 – Masterful thesis
A selection of Master Thesis
This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…
12.06.2020
Sustainability revisited
MA in Fashion and Accessory Design Thesis by Tara Mabiala
In her Fashion and Accessory Design Master’s thesis, Tara Mabiala tackles the question of sustainability in fashion through an affective and political approach. Instead of focusing on an optimisation of production modes…
10.12.2019
Third culture clothes
Having graduated as a Bachelor in Fashion Design in 2019, Maëva Weissen created an upcycled women’s collection titled “1213 Onex or the Manifest of a Third Culture.” Her source material was used…
06.11.2019
ISSUE #3 – Models on the jetty
Form and function of the fashion show today
Aude Fellay has interviewed designers for this special feature dedicated to the issues facing contemporary fashion shows. Although they all condemn the industry’s overproduction and the image effects, at the expense of…
06.11.2019
A piecemeal conversation on bus No. 6 on 8 November
A short play by Ambroise Tièche
Invited by the Fashion Department to evoke the fashion show, artist and Visual Arts teacher Ambroise Tièche imagines a conversation that drifts from one thread to the next following a Geneva bus…