{"product_id":"viscose-8-2025-sound","title":"Viscose #8 2025 - Sound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-content-wrap jspScrollable\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jspContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jspPane\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eViscose is a journal for fashion criticism. It presents critical writing and projects by a wide range of authors from the worlds of art, fashion, literature, and academia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eighth issue of Viscose examines the myriad of music and sound cultures of fashion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEntirely untethered from materiality and image, sound is the proof that fashion operates just as vividly in the purely atmospheric. From the artfully curated musical narratives of the runway to the ambient sonic environment of shops, fashion both emits sounds and seeks to associate itself with it for its own advancement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusic in particular asserts fashion’s existential relationship to time: it aesthetically time-keeps fashion media and confirms sartorial novelty by mirroring it rhythmically. To a public consciousness, the intimate relationship between fashion and music is obvious and at times even understood as one and the same. Sound glues material such as clothes to wider zeitgeists and mediated lifestyles, and as such, to cultural memory itself. As Mary E. Davis has illuminated, the alliance is profoundly historic: as far back as 1672, fashion periodicals have covered clothes and music as equally essential components of an elegant, fashionable lifestyle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusic, in fact, surrounds fashion: it enwraps makers, mediators, and consumers alike in ephemeral, yet intensely meaningful, signifiers of taste. Countless designers have come to fashion through musical subcultures, and labors in ateliers to particular playlists. Indeed, style most often has a soundtrack of its own, or dances to a specific tune.  F\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eashion emits sounds before and after the musical. The clicking of heels, the rustling of a sweater, the hissing of a zipper. The ambient humming of a sewing machine; the conclusive “beep” from a store cashier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Bierke Verlag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e193  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e23 × 23 × 2 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"do you read me?!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47841162461371,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/1778\/1179\/files\/Viscose-8-2025---Sound_7cefe507-d66d-4031-bbcf-2ce941d141c1.webp?v=1778864909","url":"https:\/\/nyc.doyoureadme.de\/products\/viscose-8-2025-sound","provider":"dyrm?! x VP, Inc. ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}