Vänskä, Intimacy - Embodied knowledge, creative work and digitalization in contemporary Finnish fashion

A garment is not just a garment: it is a link between the self, our peers and our surrounding world, specific to a time and a place. Intimacy is a book about contemporary Finnish fashion and international fashion studies. It considers the intimate relationship between the body and fashion from diverse perspectives: fashion as a tool for identity expression, the significance of the fashion designer's own bodily experiences in their work, and the contribution to fashion of wearable technology,...