Moda autoral: pela compreensão de um modo de fazer (roupas)

Abstract

This conceptual paper intends to start the delineation of a re-conceptualization of the term “authorial fashion”. The term is broadly used in Portuguese (as ‘moda de autor’ or ‘moda autoral’) and Spanish (as ‘ropa de autor’ or ‘indumentária de autor’) languages but has not yet been clearly delineated or explored in academic literature. The quest for a fuller understanding arises from a personal interest in defining the work of authorial fashion creators, where lies my own production, and aims at strenghtening the image of this particular mode of making. The term will be investigated here through the analysis of academic and journalistic texts that develop this specific mode of making, as an specimen of this creative universe in fashion.