Calling all writers, students, researchers, and industry professionals! For our forthcoming guest edited Fashion & Digital Engagement Issue we are looking for a reviewer! 

About the Issue 

Guest edited by fashion scholar Chinouk Filique de Miranda, this issue aims to critically unpack fashion’s various modes of digital engagement.  As consumers play an active role as interpreters of their online environment, navigating one's interaction with the digital fashion landscape has become an important socio-political act. 

There’s a very wide range of topics that can be considered within the pendulum of online fashion, from commercialized filter bubbles and becoming your own unreliable narrator to online identity and consuming behavior. In our participatory digital culture, fashion in its digitized forms has become a tool to assert the way we engage with the industry and each other. 

Through examining the manifold personalized experiences the online fashion landscape extends to its users, consumers, and explorers, this issue focuses on artists, practitioners, academics, and students re-configuring the online environment in new ways, by seeking solutions and exploring how we can become the systems we need by highlighting democratized and decentralized approaches towards fashion.  

What will you be doing? We are looking for a curious creature who wants to explore and create a user-centric review for wordsonfashionwebsites.com, a project initiated by artist and writer Femke de Vries.

This project explores the use of text in the realm of online fashion media. The website is connected to a selection of 10 high-profile fashion/lifestyle websites (of which some have over 90 million unique monthly visitors and a large commercial impact) and offers the option to search, track, and compare the use of text on these websites.

Because this FSJ Issue will focus on various forms of (digital) engagement, we’d like to ask you to approach this review creatively.

(contact information + deadline)

We’re looking for pitches to be submitted by February 28th, 2022. If submitting a pitch, please provide a link or writing sample that accurately represents your work, along with a short explanation (max 250 words) on how you’d like to creatively approach the review.  

Be sure to send submissions and inquiries to info@fashionstudiesjournal.org with the subject 'Review Submission: Digital Engagement Issue.' We look forward to hearing from you!