Conversation Pieces frames an on-going process of discursive design, generating objects and situations that provoke dialogue around the production and consumption of fashion.

For this edition, the curators invited a range of responses to a reader comprising fragments of texts on fashion and clothing. The responses include interventions and rewrites, highlighting, short stories, drawings, notes, photographs and collages. They reveal the intricacies of fashion language and play with established boundaries between fashion theory and daily dress practices.

With responses from:
David Bennett, Roland Brauchli, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Matthew Crowley, Clare Farrell,
Laura Gardner, Catherine Ince, Ruth Lang, Jenny Lau, Marco Pecorari, Corinne Quinn, Johannes Reponen,
Kate V Robertson, Hendrickje Schimmel/ Tenant of Culture, Sue Tompkins, Thomas Turner

The readers were on view at Tenderbooks from June 16 - 30, 2018 alongside new work by Caroline Stevenson and Ruby Hoette.

• Hoette, Ruby. 2017. 'Conversation Pieces #1, #2 and #3'. In: Fashion Research Network Interdisciplinary Symposium and Exhibition - Friday 8th September 2017. Coventry University - London Campus, United Kingdom 8 September 2017. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Hoette, Ruby. 2016. Conversation Piece #1. In: Femke de Vries, ed. Dictionary Dressings. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, pp. 309-327. ISBN 978-94-91677-60-1 [Book Section]
• de Vries, Femke. 2016. Dictionary Dressings. In: "Dictionary Dressings", Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven, Netherlands. [Show/Exhibition]
• Hoette, Ruby and UNSPECIFIED. 2018. Conversation Piece #1. In: "Omega Workshop: An Experiment in Counter-Fashion", EFA Project Space, NYC, United States, 26 January 2018 – 10 March 2018. [Show/Exhibition]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25465