Manus × Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

摘要

The connections between textiles, fashion, and the constructed environment are both deep and significant, and there is much scholarship attesting to the natural and necessary overlaps between these two fields of design. Gottfried Semper asserted in the nineteenth century that the earliest examples of enclosed space were derived directly from textiles and textile techniques (Houze 2006). More recently, Penny Sparke established the numerous parallel practices of fashion's haute couture and the profession of interior design, as they existed at the turn of the twentieth century. (Sparke 2008) Similarly, Lois Weinthal has elucidated the shared aspects of textiles and interior design, starting with the metaphor, "skin and bones" (Weinthal 2016).