BURSTING at the SEAMS: Human Growth and the Future of Clothes - Softcover

Thomas, Annika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9180575439 ISBN 13: 9789180575430

Verlag: BoD – Books on Demand – Schweden, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

We live in a time of multiple crises where we are challenged to find new ways. Clothing is one area with serious issues since beauty ideals, consumption patterns along with clothing production have devastating effects on individual, cultural as well as environmental levels. Bursting at the Seams invites you on a thought provoking journey to explore the larger perspective behind these challenges and how they are related. Through its different parts the core issues behind contemporary imbalances, and the probable origins of specific belief systems, are scrutinized. The intricate connection between human growth, cultural transformation and our relationship to clothes is also explored. Apart from their aesthetic expression clothes are made to fill different needs. Some of these are basic and practical, while others relate to psychological needs, so closely tied to how we see ourselves. Along with adult growth new needs emerge. Unless our clothes are designed to also fill those needs, we will outgrow them. Their seams will begin to burst. As all these loose ends are tied together a new, more conscious way to relate to the clothes we wear begins to take shape, along with interesting opportunities for development.

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Annika Thomas grew up in Stockholm, Sweden, and graduated from Beckmans College of Design. At the top of a career as head of design for a large clothing company, a decision to resign gained momentum. Annika went on a quest to explore how clothes could be developed to be truly beneficial - for the wearer, the environment as well as for cultural development. This eventually lead to a new job description as a holistic designer. Annika has written several books about her work. While continuing to be intrigued by human growth and the devel-opment of culture, Annika keeps experimenting with the design of garments and fabric patterns. She feels most at ease in her studio - sewing, creating patterns, knitting and weaving - while pondering life's big questions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BoD – Books on Demand – Schweden
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9180575439
• ISBN 13: 9789180575430
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Books on Demand GmbH; nod@bod.se; ; Überseering 33; Hamburg; 22297; Deutschland