5 Novembre 2024

Call For Papers: From Art Nouveau to Green Design: Fashion, Décor, Fashion Writing Volume 15 n. 1, 2025 Editor: Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino)ZoneModa Journal invites you to present proposals for a monographic issue on From Art Nouveau to Green Design: Fashion, Décor, Fashion Writing. The aesthetic of Art Nouveau relied on shapes of flowers and plants, its heydays begin the fin de siècle and the beginning of the twentieth century. Wrought iron was a must material in decoration of railings, balcony parapets, window frames and main entrance doors; wrought iron was mass produced and malleable enough to be made to imitate vegetable life. Nowadays figures of flowers and vegetation have become fashionable again in woven materials for clothes, wall paper and upholstery. The turn green movement is now dominant in the world of fashion and the consumer society in all sorts of design contexts; it deals with, and boosts, the recycling of garments and a large variety of fabrics and objects, the so-called “vintage” fashion, which somehow includes the re-use of “biological” leftovers and “waste”- to a degree in imitation of the artistic movement akin to “arte povera” – in the manufacture of furniture, housewares, garden tools. Examples can be the reuse of orange skin to make compostable, biodegradable tools – through 3D printers – and of nut shells to manufacture items of furniture. This issue of the Journal investigates the role of green aesthetics in fashion, design, and in fashion literature and writing, in the specialized fashion media and in the new media: Submissions Abstracts of no more than 1000 words + 5 bibliographical references (word*.docx format), written either in Italian or English, must be sent to: zmj@unibo.it; carmen.concilio@unito.it. Abstract acceptance does not guarantee publication of the article, which will be submitted to a double-blind peer-review process. Key deadlines ZMJ Vol. 15 N.1 is scheduled to be published by July 2025. https://zmj.unibo.it/announcement/view/657