フランス発、2017年に創刊したグラフィックデザイン誌『レヴュ・フェール(REVUE FAIRE)』。本誌は、ヨーロッパ全体、殊にフランスにおいて、グラフィックデザインの形態と活動にまつわる分析に特化した批評的な刊行物が少ない現状を嘆き、鑑みて作られた。グラフィックデザインスタジオ「Syndicat」と出版社「Empire」を主宰するデザイナー・デュオ、サシャ・レオポルド(Sacha Léopold)とフランソワ・ハーヴェゲール(François Havegeer)によって創刊、15冊を1シーズンとして発行している。
第51号は、ノルウェー人ファッションエディターのエリーセ・ビィ・オルセン(Elise By Olsen)が主宰する「INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF FASHION RESEARCH(ILFR)」を特集し、『‘Yell Outside‘』をタイトルに掲げる。
ノルウェイ、オスロに建つ同ライブラリーには、専門的なファッション研究と現代ファッションにまつわる出版物が収蔵されており、このジャンルにおいて世界で最も包括的にまとめられた宝庫とも言える場所である。本号は、その膨大なファッション・エフェメラのコレクションを巡る旅に我々を誘う。ファッションライターであり、「ジュネーヴ造形芸術大学(HEAD-Genève)」で教鞭を執るオード・フェレイ(Aude Fellay)が、今日のファッション研究が直面する課題を語る。
フランス語、英語併記。
記事:『Revue Faire』:言行一致のグラフィックデザイン誌(The Graphic Design Review)
A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world's most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude Fellay discusses the challenges facing fashion research today.
I approach the man behind the glass screen. He doesn't look at me. I hand him my passport. "Why are you visiting Norway?" he asks, flipping through its pages. "To work", I reply, simply. "What kind of work?" "Research", I respond revelling in the evasiveness (surely, a privilege). He speaks: "What kind of research?" I finally spill the beans: "fashion research". He repeats the F word as his eyes finally meet mine. Norway and fashion. Fashion and research. I can't work out which words have thrown him. Perhaps all of them.
Fashion with a capital F goes with Paris. Research goes with science. What's the point of studying something so frivolous? Can one really think through fashion? Yes sir, my sense of self hinges on it. And that is how I pay my rent. In this case, it involves writing something about the International Library of Fashion Research for the glossy pages you, readers, are holding in your hands. The library holds fashion ephemera in the form of printed matter, which includes show invitations, studio memos, look books, a range of fashion magazines and a modest selection of academic writing. Hence Revue Faire's interest in the library and my two-day visit to Oslo.
Faire is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design, published from October to June, distributed issue by issue or in the form of anthologies of three or four issues. Created by Empire, Syndicat studio's publishing house, Faire is aimed for undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals, documenting contemporary and international practices of graphic design, along with the history and grammar of styles. Each issue focuses on a single subject, addressed by a renowned author.
REVUE FAIRE – TO LOOK AT THINGS #51: ‘YELL OUTSIDE’: INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF FASHION RESEARCH
by Elise By Olsen , REVUE FAIRE
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